Thursday, August 5, 2010.
What an interesting day this turned out to be. The baby and I have found a new thing we enjoy doing...sitting on the porch and enjoying the out doors.
I took a couple of pictures of his beautiful little face. I can't get enough of him! He's just so perfect.
While the baby and I are enjoying the evening the girls decide to play dress up...which of course involves make up. After they are finished with their make up they come out on the porch to show me. I really don't like them wearing make up because it makes them look to old. But I let them do it at home as long as it's cleaned off before we go anywhere.
Sora was supposed to be some kind of vampire, so here she is biting dad's neck. Then of course a picture of her make up...you see why I don't like it. You'd never believe she's only 10.
Then Olivia is supposed to be some kind of monster bride but she doesn't really look that monstrous to me. Yikes! They are just too young for make up.
Here is Selena, the make up artist. She's the one that always dresses them up, does their hair and puts make up on them.
So after all the fun of dressing up and taking pictures we decided we are going to go to the store. Our plans were to get up early Friday morning and head to the lake with the jet skis. So we needed to get some food and a life jacket for the baby. The girls run in to clean the horrible make up off their faces, dad heads to the garage, and I start to bring the baby inside. As I open the front door I hear one of the girls screaming and crying hysterically, "Mom, Mom, Mommy!"
I leave the baby on the porch head to the girls room, in the bathroom and what do I see? Selena holding Olivia's foot and blood everywhere! Olivia is crying out of control, I'm trying to find out what happened, and Selena's trying to explain while Olivia continues to cry.
I look at Olivia's foot and see that her big toe is ripped open. I tell Selena to run and get me a clean towel because she was using toilet paper for the blood. At least she knew to keep pressure on her foot. I put the towel on her foot and keep pressure on it while trying to calm her down at the same time.
Selena tells me that Olivia ran into the bathroom and slipped cutting her toe on the vent. I'm looking at the vent and thinking...How in the heck did she get such a huge cut from this?! You're thinking the same thing, right?
Well no time to worry about it at this moment. I tell Selena that she needs to get dad right now. I'm trying to keep Olivia calm but at the same time trying to convey to Selena that this is an emergency. Selena returns with no dad. I asked her what he was doing, she said he was on his way. At that point I told her that she needed to tell him it was an emergency! So off she went again. I would have just carried Olivia but I couldn't do that while keeping pressure on her foot. She's 71 lbs already. Finally dad came into the bathroom, looked at the injury and went to get me some gauze bandages. I wrapped as best I could and off we were to the hospital emergency.
On the way to the hospital we got the real story. Selena had removed the air vent cover, for reasons only the man upstairs knows. Olivia had cut her toe on the metal pipe in the air vent. Selena was scared to admit it and sad at the same time because she felt it was her fault Olivia was hurting and going to the hospital. This picture doesn't do it justice but now I can understand how she got such a big, deep cut.
Unfortunately, it was a horrible night to be in emergency at the hospital. The place was packed when we arrived. Yeah! It's no fun sitting for hours with a 4 1/2 month old, three girls and your husband who hasn't eaten. None the less, it was good quality family time...right. =0)
We finally get into the room where a nurse looks at her toe, cleans it a bit and we wait more to see the doctor. Here is Olivia praying. She was such a strong little trooper.
Her toe being cleaned.
What it looked like when the blood was cleaned off. Yeah, not pretty. You can't tell from this picture but it was actually really deep.
When the doctor finally came in to take a look he told us what our options were. She could get about eight, yeah I said eight, shots of Novocain around the wound (she would feel each one) then he could stitch it up OR we'd have to put an IV in, give her some medication that would sedate her, then he could stitch it up. Um, yeah a no brainer right. There is just no way she would have been able to handle getting 8 shots right near the wound, could you?
Here is our little girl trying to be strong, holding my hand.
Here is daddy trying to comfort his daughter by letting her know that if she lost her toe he promises he'll wear it on a necklace around his neck. Why couldn't I think of that?
Our little baby with an IV in her arm waiting for the sedation medication.
Let me just tell you that as a parent this experience was a tough one. One, trying to stay calm while your child is in pain. Two, trying to remember the right things to do, to get bleeding under control, calming your child and reassuring her that everything is going to be okay. Three, keeping every one else calm. Four, knowing and making the decisions for the best care or treatment for your child. So scared that something might go wrong or that your child might have a bad reaction to the medication. The whole experience was heart rendering.
While Olivia was sedated the medication affected her speech. She was talking gibberish which was so hilarious. I wish I would have had my video camera. Then after she started to come out of it, the medication can make you hallucinate. Well that was quite interesting. She wanted to know why she was on the beach, why there were three suns, she wanted me to kill a huge bug on the ceiling, asked me why I had two heads and four eyes, why I had 100 fingers, why there was snow on my head, why were there pixies flying around and one landed on my shoulder, definitely very entertaining.
I had Rocky take the baby, Selena and Sora home around 11:30 pm. There was no point in having everyone wait. We finally got finished and daddy picked us up at about 2:30 am. What a night!
All in all, I am thankful to my Heavenly Father that it was not worse. I'm thankful she was able to keep her toe and that she only needed nine stitches. I'm thankful that she was strong and brave. I just hope we don't have very many more of these experiences.
What an interesting day this turned out to be. The baby and I have found a new thing we enjoy doing...sitting on the porch and enjoying the out doors.
I took a couple of pictures of his beautiful little face. I can't get enough of him! He's just so perfect.
While the baby and I are enjoying the evening the girls decide to play dress up...which of course involves make up. After they are finished with their make up they come out on the porch to show me. I really don't like them wearing make up because it makes them look to old. But I let them do it at home as long as it's cleaned off before we go anywhere.
Sora was supposed to be some kind of vampire, so here she is biting dad's neck. Then of course a picture of her make up...you see why I don't like it. You'd never believe she's only 10.
Then Olivia is supposed to be some kind of monster bride but she doesn't really look that monstrous to me. Yikes! They are just too young for make up.
Here is Selena, the make up artist. She's the one that always dresses them up, does their hair and puts make up on them.
So after all the fun of dressing up and taking pictures we decided we are going to go to the store. Our plans were to get up early Friday morning and head to the lake with the jet skis. So we needed to get some food and a life jacket for the baby. The girls run in to clean the horrible make up off their faces, dad heads to the garage, and I start to bring the baby inside. As I open the front door I hear one of the girls screaming and crying hysterically, "Mom, Mom, Mommy!"
I leave the baby on the porch head to the girls room, in the bathroom and what do I see? Selena holding Olivia's foot and blood everywhere! Olivia is crying out of control, I'm trying to find out what happened, and Selena's trying to explain while Olivia continues to cry.
I look at Olivia's foot and see that her big toe is ripped open. I tell Selena to run and get me a clean towel because she was using toilet paper for the blood. At least she knew to keep pressure on her foot. I put the towel on her foot and keep pressure on it while trying to calm her down at the same time.
Selena tells me that Olivia ran into the bathroom and slipped cutting her toe on the vent. I'm looking at the vent and thinking...How in the heck did she get such a huge cut from this?! You're thinking the same thing, right?
Well no time to worry about it at this moment. I tell Selena that she needs to get dad right now. I'm trying to keep Olivia calm but at the same time trying to convey to Selena that this is an emergency. Selena returns with no dad. I asked her what he was doing, she said he was on his way. At that point I told her that she needed to tell him it was an emergency! So off she went again. I would have just carried Olivia but I couldn't do that while keeping pressure on her foot. She's 71 lbs already. Finally dad came into the bathroom, looked at the injury and went to get me some gauze bandages. I wrapped as best I could and off we were to the hospital emergency.
On the way to the hospital we got the real story. Selena had removed the air vent cover, for reasons only the man upstairs knows. Olivia had cut her toe on the metal pipe in the air vent. Selena was scared to admit it and sad at the same time because she felt it was her fault Olivia was hurting and going to the hospital. This picture doesn't do it justice but now I can understand how she got such a big, deep cut.
Unfortunately, it was a horrible night to be in emergency at the hospital. The place was packed when we arrived. Yeah! It's no fun sitting for hours with a 4 1/2 month old, three girls and your husband who hasn't eaten. None the less, it was good quality family time...right. =0)
We finally get into the room where a nurse looks at her toe, cleans it a bit and we wait more to see the doctor. Here is Olivia praying. She was such a strong little trooper.
Her toe being cleaned.
What it looked like when the blood was cleaned off. Yeah, not pretty. You can't tell from this picture but it was actually really deep.
When the doctor finally came in to take a look he told us what our options were. She could get about eight, yeah I said eight, shots of Novocain around the wound (she would feel each one) then he could stitch it up OR we'd have to put an IV in, give her some medication that would sedate her, then he could stitch it up. Um, yeah a no brainer right. There is just no way she would have been able to handle getting 8 shots right near the wound, could you?
Here is our little girl trying to be strong, holding my hand.
Here is daddy trying to comfort his daughter by letting her know that if she lost her toe he promises he'll wear it on a necklace around his neck. Why couldn't I think of that?
Our little baby with an IV in her arm waiting for the sedation medication.
Let me just tell you that as a parent this experience was a tough one. One, trying to stay calm while your child is in pain. Two, trying to remember the right things to do, to get bleeding under control, calming your child and reassuring her that everything is going to be okay. Three, keeping every one else calm. Four, knowing and making the decisions for the best care or treatment for your child. So scared that something might go wrong or that your child might have a bad reaction to the medication. The whole experience was heart rendering.
While Olivia was sedated the medication affected her speech. She was talking gibberish which was so hilarious. I wish I would have had my video camera. Then after she started to come out of it, the medication can make you hallucinate. Well that was quite interesting. She wanted to know why she was on the beach, why there were three suns, she wanted me to kill a huge bug on the ceiling, asked me why I had two heads and four eyes, why I had 100 fingers, why there was snow on my head, why were there pixies flying around and one landed on my shoulder, definitely very entertaining.
I had Rocky take the baby, Selena and Sora home around 11:30 pm. There was no point in having everyone wait. We finally got finished and daddy picked us up at about 2:30 am. What a night!
All in all, I am thankful to my Heavenly Father that it was not worse. I'm thankful she was able to keep her toe and that she only needed nine stitches. I'm thankful that she was strong and brave. I just hope we don't have very many more of these experiences.
3 comments:
Yikes, I'm so glad that she's okay. She's soooo brave. I totally had to scroll down past a few pictures, so that I wouldn't get sick :) You're such a cool headed mom!!
WOW what a night!!! Seriously I do not look forward to those moments. They freak me out just to think about how I would handle them! Sounds like you did everything right! Those girls are very lucky to have you! They are beautiful girls, and wow that makeup makes them look SO much older! Yikes! The toe pics made me nautious and I normally do not get affected by stuff like that. Glad all is well!
That's a great story! I laughed out loud when you said Rocky promised to wear her toe on a necklace. Good job everyone. Hopefully there's not too many more stories like this. I'm glad she's okay!
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