I didn't have the foresight to bring mah pillohz into the living room before I konked out.
This morning I have already been on my walk and started some laundry. The asshole cat, Osama Bin Oliver woke the BLM up at 6am barking at her window. She will require a nap today. She normally wakes around 8.
Today is My Friday! I'm heading South sometime on Thursday to begin the 4th of July festivus.
It was this weekend 3 years ago that Chandler had her "accident". I was at work, and Chandler was at home with her Grammy (DL's Mom) and her DL. Something caught her eye on our table in the hallway.
This is the table (look past the LLM wearing underwear on her head).
The table fell on her, she landed on the tile and the table landed on her head.
I got a very calm call from Grammy. I was not at all concerned until I passed them as I was leaving work and they were on their way to the ER. I called DL and he was frantic. I heard a tone in his voice that I hope I never have to hear again.
When I got to the ER I heard Chandler screaming. She had a gash in her head so big that you could see her skull. Blood was every where. She was frantic. DL was just about to come apart. He tried to buck on me (leave for work), and I know it was because the situation was just too much. He starts sweating and getting upset when we take the girls for immunizations, so this was hard for him.
It was hard for me, too. I was not medicated at the time, but I maintained composure. I held Chandler- she quit crying and she fell asleep in my arms. Which scared the Shit out of me.
The ER nurse and doctor were fantastic. They gave us the choice of sewing it up right there or putting her under and sewing her up. We chose to have her put under and they called the surgeon. I took her back to the OR and held her as the nurse gave her a shot of ketamine. She chillaxed (after the initial insult of the shot) and let the nurse carry her back to the OR.
We had to postpone our lake trip. But when we woke up the next day, all Chandler remembered was that the doctor hurt her arm (the shot). Then she said, "Take a bath, Momma. I want to go to the lake." And we did. And she didn't complain of it one time. Not ONCE.
It sheard a good 5 years off of my life. The table went into the garage for more than a year until Grandpa (DL's dad) could secure it to the wall. We have since moved, and it is secured to the wall in the new house.
Here she is the day after:
And about a week later:
And now:
No one ever notices the scar in her eyebrow. We are lucky we had a good surgeon. I have emailed him pictures and thank you's almost every year. It's time to do it again.
15 comments:
Oh wow. Yeah, I would have freaked. My daughter fell on a toy when she was about a year old. Her tooth went through her lower lip. There was a LOT of blood. I drove her to the ER. She ended up only needing that blue glue gunk, and not stitches. But BLM's injury and stitches? Holy cow. I would have freaked.
Chandler is beautiful. I've said it before, and I'll say it again!
That sounds so scary. I would have been freaking out. But look at how beautiful she is - you can't see her scar at all! Heather/Grace303
I would have had a heart attack. I saw my daughters blood (from a boo-boo) for the first time this week (she bit her tongue with her new teeth), and I thought I was going to die.
What an amazing surgeon, though! I'm also definitely going to install my furniture straps ASAP.
Oh my gosh, poor girl!! Sounds like she was a trooper though! I love how ridiculously tan and blonde she is - she'll be thanking you for those genes when she's old enough! :)
MAMA! that hurts my heart to read! She has a beautiful face and always has! I want to kiss both those girls cheeks off!
Have fun this weekend!
I think that took a good couple a days off MY life just looking at those pictures!! Let's hope my kids never need sewing up--I might be tempted to try to sneak em into CAIH and find the surgeon that did such awesome work. Now, I hope you didn't make the surgeon address his own envelopes for the thank you's.
Wow! What a story! Thank Goodness she's looking good now poor girl. You sure did have a good surgeon.
Have a good weekend!
Holy Crap, woman, it's already been three years?! I remember when that happened and how well it was healing, but I would have guessed maybe 2 years, tops.
She's even more of a mini-you now that she was then. Incredible.
Scary Biscuits!
She is one beautiful little girl! Have a fun 4th!
Whoa...SCARY story! I think it is so cool how calm you were when you held her. She is absolutely beautiful!!!
Those accidents are so scary. We have dealt with 2 on our 1st daughter-and both were huge heart stoppers and huge in the owie factor. Makes us realize just how super-human us mamas can be when our babies are really needing us.
Yeah, you're cooler than I am! I would have needed serious medication just to sit through it! I am so thankful that I haven't had to go through anything that bad... yet!
Poor Baby! I though little girls never got hurt like this, so it's normal across the board? She is beautiful and in the last pic, I can't even see the scar!
I don't know how I was able to be calm, I really don't. I guess I just knew I had to be for her. I fell apart crying when she went to bed that night. Thankfully, I had some Attivan on hand and that was a big help that evening when I got home.
BLM is amazing and tough. She didn't even cry when she got her stitches out!
ML
awesome work by the doc. my wife works in the ER and she says you don't always get these results. By the way, you have a beautiful daughter.
Blessings
Frankie G
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