Bump on Forehead

A Big Bump on the Forehead

Like many young children, my son likes to run around like a wild banshee around bedtime. When he was a little over a year old, we were having one such evening. I was watching him run in and out of his room and making sure that he didn’t hurt himself. There was a futon on the floor and he wobbled a bit as he toddled across it. He was still a bit unsteady on his feet.

I was sitting right in the middle of it all when suddenly he lunged forward and whacked his forehead against the sharp corner of the dresser. Immediately a dark purplish bump, the size of an egg started to form. As a first-time parent, I was petrified! I called out to my husband, who was angry, because he had to hang up the phone. He stormed in, took one look at our son’s forehead and started to panic. As he reprimanded me loudly for not watching our son, I decided to ignore him and start giving Johrei to my son’s forehead.

I was holding him. He was crying and I was scared, but I didn’t know what else to do. I just kept giving the bump Johrei and encouraging my husband to do the same. Reluctantly, he joined me and as time passed, we were amazed and comforted to see the bump slowly receding. It gradually went down in size until it was a longish, flat bruise.

I dozed beside my son that night on the futon so that I would be there in case he complained of a headache; a sign of cerebral bleeding. I gave him Johrei on and off and he slept through the night, without complaint. The next day, he went to the babysitter’s sporting an impressive shiner on his forehead.

Since then I’ve found out that there are so many blood vessels in the forehead and that when a child bumps themselves, it almost always results in a big, menacing goose egg. For me, however, it was one of the scariest nights of my life. I really don’t know what I would have done without Johrei.

Cassie: Los Angeles, CA