Scary incident in morning rush

V had a terrible accident a few days ago. He likes to help out in the kitchen and recently we have let him stir the porridge. He loves it, takes really great pride in doing so, making proper food together with me and my wife.
How could we deny him? And... he is also silent and stops moaning (he is not very good at patience) when we let him cook along with us.

Well. The other morning he used a different chair to climb up to the stove. And suddenly it started to slide backwards. V fell forward and used his left hand - his good one - to stop the fall.

Bad thing was - he put it on the stove plate that the porridge was boiling on. The pot flew away and the hand landed on the hot plate.

Panic.

It took us 15 minutes to get V calm enogh to put some cold (not very cold) water on the hand. He just couldn't stop screaming. A started to cry as well.

We had some advice from the national hospital advicing system and they told us to go to the Astrid Lindgren Childrens Hospital. That is a very good hospital with lot´s of nice people with tons of experience of treating children.
Bad thing though, the hospital is north of Stockholm. We live south of the city.

So off we went. During rush hour.

But it wasn´t that bad. It took us almost an hour but V was a trooper. We had managed to give him some painkillers hidden in a glass of juice. We sang to him and he smiled a bit. And he learned the sign for doctor quickly.

And the people at the hospital were very very good. They put him in a special waiting line, because of his brain disease. "He shouldn´t have to wait, that is clearly not something we should put him through".

The hardest part in the following days was to keep V from putting the hand with the bandage in his mouth. We had to dress the bandage every new day. First at the local health central, but then we managed to do it at home.

Now it has healed. And we are reminded never to take it easy, never to rest, never to stop watching our loved strange little boy again. Until it happens in a new way we never thought of...