So if you didn't already know we had a not so
fun night last night with my middle Daughter. We ended up learning a few
lessons and here they are.
1. Dancing in the kitchen to Luke Bryan can be
hazardous to your health.
2. Madison hospital ER has a terrible turn over
rate.
3. Always listen to your gut aka Mommy
intuition.
4. Allie has a hard head and never ceases to
amaze me.
While dancing around to Luke Bryan in the
kitchen last night the girls started showing us their mad dance moves. Well
come Allies turn she some how manages to fall and catch herself with the right
side of her face on the ceramic tile causing instantaneous swelling and
bleeding.
This is where I impress myself and turn into
super mom and calmly pick her up and set her on the counter to assess the
damage while praying, dear God please let all her teeth be attached and nothing
be broken. We are not going to even mention what daddy was doing at this point.
CIMH lets just say daddy and face traumas do not mix. Well after I got the initial bleeding to stop
and there was a lot of blood in the mouth area I was able to determine she
didn’t damage her teeth. Phew, Thank god. But the right side of her nose was
really swollen along with her lip. Both of which were pouring blood. So I was
pretty concerned she had broken her nose or cracked a face bone. So Justin and
I decided it was time for Allie’s 3rd ER trip in her life.
Well we have two ER’s in our area one a
children’s ER a little further drive and then the regular ER they opened up
last summer here in Madison. Well my gut
said Children’s ER but my dumb brain said well we went to the Madison ER last
summer for Allies broken leg and everything went smooth so it should be fine.
Well I got stuck on Sullivan cause of a train for 10 mins… should have taken
that as a sign to turn around and go to the other ER but my stubborn butt
waited and continued on to the Madison ER while getting stuck at EVERY, no
joke, EVERY light.
So I finally get to the ER and OMG it is
packed… thinking great here comes a 2-hour wait. Well it only took 10 mins to
see triage, so I thought this is promising. Ha wrong… well an hour into my wait
my phone is almost dead so luckily my wonderful sister in-law came to my rescue
with her phone charger. By the time she got there cause she was out to dinner
(sorry about that) I was two hours into my wait. Well Tati stayed and visited
with me and helped hold Allie who at this point is passed out. So thank you to
her for helping me out. And for brining
me m&ms J
So after 4 hours and 15 mins from arrival we
finally get in a room. At this point it is midnight and I am exhausted and it
is passed my bedtime. Then they proceed to take 2 more hours to get the doctor
into us. At this point we are 6 hours in and I am exhausted and of course had
to pee and I have been crying cause I am frustrated. Well I ask the nurse to
please sit with Allie since she is asleep so I can go to the restroom and of
course she can tell I have been crying and ask if I am ok and I melt down. She
offers me water and I take it. Next thing I know she comes back with a free
fleece blanket with the hospital logo on it. Guess she felt bad for me. So
anyways the Doc finally comes in and he looks at her teeth, gums and lips and
no need for stitches and everything looks good just will have to heal on it’s
own but orders a CT Scan just to check facial bones and for possible brain
swelling. Takes another hour for radiology to come get us. Finally we get the
CT Scan, of course Allie wakes up a freaks out because the machine sounds like
a jet air plane. The tech instructs her she has to be really still or the
picture won’t come out right Well the first time the machine moved and startled
her so she moved. So I promise her a brownie if she holds really still and that
did the trick and she held perfectly still the second time.
Well now we are back to waiting on results so another
hour and 20 mins, only after I have asked can we please go home and get called
with results does the Doctor magically appear with our results. So he proceeds
to tell me that nothing is broke, she just has a really busted lip and facial
swelling. Based off the swelling even the triage nurse who was also our
discharge nurse was shocked nothing was broke. But 8 1/2 hours later Allie got
a clean bill of health, was told she had a hard head and praised for doing
better then a lot of adults during her ct scan.
So we finally get home and what is the first
thing she said to Justin, mommy said I can have a brownie can I have my brownie
lol. So we let her have her brownie and crawled into bed at 5 only to have to
wake up at 6:00 to get Renae off to school… So I am tired today but at least
Allie is ok. She continues to amaze me
with how resilient she is with this kind of stuff… she just gets up and keeps
going.. Well thank you for reading my long story and for all the prayers. Just
glad it’s over and she is ok… Allie is always busting her nose or hitting her
face, just last week she got kicked in the face at preschool so I worry about
her, Allies face is a magnet for Trauma I guess… huf… well happy Thursday, here
are a few pics, she Is always still smiling and beautiful even with her busted
lip J
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| after arriving at ER still smiles |
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| after about 2 hours she passed out |
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| sleeping on Aunt Tati |
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| This morning still my happy girl with Morgan |
