Five minutes later the kids came back with Kyreni and started playing with the couch cushions in the family room while I started picking up. After about 10-15 minutes I was just starting to unload the dishwasher when Ana let out a piercing cry, following by intense crying. I ran over to her. Her face was on the windowsill and the rest of her body was draped over the arm of the couch. I grabbed her and her temple was all bloody. It scared me. I was trying to process what happened. I thought maybe Kyreni had stepped on her hair or something, but that didn't explain the blood. Then I saw the cut next to her eye, and it looked deep. Not just a normal cut. I could see white under the blood. I scooped her up and carried her to the bathroom, while she dripped blood on the floor and all over her shirt and skirt. I was kind of panicking a little and as I set her down on the bathroom sink, I thought, OK, I need to act calm, so she will calm down. So I said over and over as I got a wash cloth, and wet it, and pressed it against her eye, "Hey, Ana, everything is OK. It's OK, sweetie. It's just a bad cut. It's OK." I said this over and over I don't know how many times. I called my next door neighbor first, to see if she could watch the kids so I could take Ana to Urgent Care, but she had to go into work in a half hour. So I tried to think who I could call next. Then I thought I'd better call Thad and let him know what's going on. I still didn't know what to do with Ana. It was about 4:30 by that time, so Thad just came straight home. He called his parents and they got here about 5 minutes after he did. They stayed with the kids and we drove Ana to Urgent Care. She was still screaming because her eye hurt, and also because she was scared to get stitches. I'd told her she would probably need some.
She calmed down a bit in the car. She asked me to tell her some stories, so I made up a story about a frog named Dot, and a fly named Sparkle. Then I sang the Rainbow song from Primary. By the time we got to the Dr. office she was pretty calm, and the cut wasn't bleeding so bad. It looked nasty though. The PA and his assistant were good with Ana. They joked with her and put her at ease. It took a while to numb her wound, but the stitches went fairly quickly. While we were waiting for her cut to get numb, the nurse and PA had stepped out of the room, and Ana and I were sitting on the bed, and Ana goes, "Um, is it OK to toot in here?" She cracks me up. She was a champ, man! She joked and talked the whole time, even though I could tell she was a little nervous during parts. By the end she was totally calm. She got to pick out 2 prizes from a treasure chest, and she picked out one for her and one for Benji. We got McDonald's on the way home, and had ice cream for dessert after a very quick FHE. So the evening ended on a good note. She even got to Face Time Grandma and Grandpa Monk in Vegas, and show them and Kath and her cousins her neat stitches and scar.
We're glad she was OK and was so brave today. And thankful for Thad's parents for coming over on such short notice. They played with Benji and Jane and fed them dinner.
In the car. Thad drove and I rode in the back with Ana. She calmed down after about 5 minutes, enough for me to take a picture!
Waiting for the numbing stuff to kick in. By now she was pretty much back to her normal self. At least enough to stick her tongue out for a picture
Back at home. We'll have to go back to the urgent care on Saturday to get the stitches removed
The next day she had some swelling and bruising. Her eyelid was a bit purple. I had to run some errands and I felt a little weird carting her around with nothing covering her gash. We got a few inquisitive looks. So when we got home I covered it as best as I could with a bandaid. I just hope I can get it back off without pulling off the stitches.
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I'm glad the shock is over. Good for you for being a brave mama.
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