We were doing laundry as a family in the basement when our crawler/walker/leaper girl bashed her head on the edge of one of the wooden stairs, making a small little cut above her right eyebrow. It was bleeding and we weren't sure how deep it was so we decided better be safe than sorry. She only cried for like a minute or two and was her normal self after that.
I have decided that in emergency situations I (Emily) am not the one to run to, I kinda freeze. I picked her up saw the blood and handed her to Mark right away. It is just so hard seeing blood on your little girl or seeing her in any kind of distress at all. She falls a lot during this stage and there's never blood, so when there was I was almost in disbelief! I was just saying "oh no oh no" as I ran to get something to clean off her face.
We weren't the only ones in the ER for eyebrow lacerations, turns out we were the 3rd with a child her age that very evening. They gave her a cute little fox which she quickly began to love. We hardly had to wait anytime at all, they wrapped her up like a taco in a sheet, to keep her arms down, and used some medical super glue to shut the wound and said, it wasn't that deep at all. They asked us how she responded to the whole thing and told us she was just fine. So whew.
You can't keep this little girl down so when we got home and she began to play... it re-opened, we said ARE YOU JOKING? and put a band aid on it! We checked on her sleeping soundly in her crib later that evening and the band aid was still in tact she wasn't choking on it and there was no blood soaking through or dripping down her face, like one mom feared.
It is healing pretty well and has yet to reopen since Sunday evening. When I go out in public I just want to tell people, I did not do this to her!
Oh being a parent is grand, as we were driving to the ER we just said, this is probably the first of many right? Oh....I can wait on those!
2 comments:
Oh my, I can feel your pain! Bennett fell down the stairs earlier this year and split his head open and had two bloody lips. I too froze up and went walking around carrying bennett, trying to find Jon. He quickly calmed me down and assured me he was fine. But now Bennett has this scar that you only see when he looks up or raises his eyebrows. its like a big dent in his head. pretty funny.
but yes, i pray these are few and far between. its so hard to see them hurt!
She's such a trooper! Glad to hear she's recovering nicely.
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