Today was supposed to be an uneventful “recovery” day with the Cardio Recovery workout.  I feel like I should be able to do everything in this workout, but have to admit that when he has you sit and hold in the squat position my legs turn to fire and force me to break for a few seconds.  So outside of holding a couple of these squats and lunges, the rest of the workout is pretty routine and a nice break from the usual cardio.

But something else happened today, not related to the workout, that was scary.  I was home alone with my 2 children ( 3 1/2 yr old son and 5 1/2 yr old daughter).  They were watching cartoons on our bed while I did my workout which is pretty standard to keep them out of trouble.  I was doing my final stretches with about 2 minutes to go and I hear “BAM” and then my son starts screaming!  Needless to say I ran to the bedroom to see what happened.  I found my son lying on the bed on his back holding his head.  I picked him up and saw blood dripping down from the back of his head!  Apparently, my daughter pushed him out of the way of the TV and he hit the back of his head on the edge of the wooden foot board.

I whisked him away and started putting pressure on it to stop the bleeding and so I could assess how bad it was.  It didn’t bleed very long (thank goodness) and I was able to wipe enough of the blood off the hair to see the wound.  It was a gash about an inch long, although not too terribly deep. Once my wife got home we decided it was best to go to the emergency room and have it checked out.  The final diagnosis was that they put in 5 staples to close the wound!  Dang, my boy is so rock and roll, he has five staples in his head!

I do want to mention though, he is just fine.  It sounds traumatic (which it was for me), but after about 5 minutes he was ok and did not complain.  He was just happy to get a popsicle from the ER :-)   He is back at pre-school today and can resume normal activities and we will schedule to get the staples removed next week.

I know this wasn’t really Insanity related, but I had to share!

Day 24 – Plyometric Cardio Circuit

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