Wallace and Grommit

or should that be Grimace and Vomit? ! Great movie, lots of fun, and lots of laughs.

Interesting day though... Phil had taken the boys out for a bike ride in the morning. Alexander had a fall and hit his head on a metal railing. He was wearing his bike helmet.  Alexander looked and seemed fine, except for a bit of crying. They came home, rested and had lunch.  Before we left, we checked Alexander out again. He was fine, no pains, headaches or anything apart from the bump on the side of his head.  We decided we would go to Potsdamer Platz as planned to see a movie with Sonia and Bradley. 

Alexander wasn't feeling too well on the train, and said he had a little headache. Once we got out of the train station he was sick on a tree. He said he was feeling better and was OK to see the movie. We thought of taking him to the doctors, but he really sparked up again. 

The cinema shows all movies in their original language. The local posters advertise "Wallace and Grommit - auf dem Jagd nach dem Reisen Kanninchen".  Movie was great, except for 2 incidents of Alexander vomiting in the cinema. I took him out the 1st time, and found an employee to tell him about the mess in the cinema, and which seat we were sitting in. His reaction? "don't worry, swap seats and we will clean it up later".  Luckily the cinema was fairly empty.

Alexander said he was OK to see the rest, so we went back in, and changed seats! 5 minutes before the end of the show he vomited again. Phil thought we should take him to the hospital and get him checked out. Luckily we ran into other 2 families from school, both who know a great kids emergency room and speak much better German than us. They got us a taxi, and told the driver which emergency department to take us to.

Sonia took Cameron back to her house. 

We waited a whole 5 minutes, before we were taken to see the doctor...incredible! :)  The doctor confirmed it was mild concussion. The thing was that even though Alexander felt OK, the stimulus from the movie (sights and sounds) were way too much, and this caused the vomiting. The doctor said "Well he shouldn't be reading, playing video games or watching any TV. That will make him feel nauseous." (Oops, that was a pretty big TV screen!) 

The doctor said it was unnecessary to admit him, just to take him home and let him rest for 24 hours...any more vomiting or other symptoms to bring him back!

All is well now, back to school on Tuesday, just a nice little graze on the side of his head! Now he knows why we insist on wearing a helmet every time they get on a bike! Lesson number 1 :) Hate to think of what would have happened without it... nice to dint a helmet and not a head!