I had an little adventure yesterday.  I am not one to be dramatic about things.  But sometimes with my kids I just can't help it.  I know they fall, they get bruises and cuts and boo boos.  So I am not one to rush to the doctor.  Well, I was on the phone yesterday trying to get car insurance cheaper (btw, anyone with AAA might want to check them out....I am saving over $600 yr with more coverage).  My little one (21 mths old) had fell or slipped in the kitchen.  He heard the thud and he started crying.  He came over to me with his hand on his ear crying and comforted him and stopped.  I continued my conversation, which I have guilt now, when I got off the phone he was playing and being happy.  I went to check his ear thinking it would red, and to surprise he had blood coming out.  Not just a spot, but coming out of his canal down his jawline.  Now here comes the dark thoughts...he's going to be deaf in that ear, he has brain damage, he'll die, etc.  Yes a little over the top, but these are the scenarios I come up with.  I checked his ear for a cut but didn't want to poke into it.  Well, I rushed him to the ER thinking the worst.  And everything was fine.  His eardrum was intact and he had a scrap in his ear canal that skin was completely gone.  Since I didn't see him fall, I didn't know if he fell on something or if he fell off the chair and hit his head so hard his ear was bleeding.  Well, did I over react?  Should I have had waited to see if the bleeding would stop, because it did by the time the doc saw him.  Or are there other over protected parents out there that would have done the same?