Leaving us in stitches

Well we had quite a week last week. Sarah especially had quite a week. On Monday Sarah and Derek were playing around with my exercise ball in the living room. Sarah came running in the room from the playroom and hit the exercise ball it sent her flying, she is only 32 pounds, right into the couch. We have a couch bed and instead of hitting the soft cushions she hit her mouth off the couch and blood began flowing. This happened at 11:45 a.m. I called my father in law who in the past has been an EMT but he was in Jamestown half an hour away. He said he would be there in 45 minutes. So I held a washcloth and ice to Sarah's lip, as long as she would let me, not very long and we waited for Grandpa to come. When he finally got her 45 minutes later he decided that we should go to see if we could find other EMT friends of his and see what they thought. I do love living in a small town because we were able to walk into the school find an EMT buddy who told us go for stitches. We went down to the local Dr.'s office and stitches she got. So on Monday my princess had two stitches in her mouth by 2:00 p.m.

Just when you think its bad enough and the story stops here let me take you to Thursday and tell you about Sarah's experience at Aunt Lori's. We went to Illinois on Thursday morning at 4:00 a.m. which got us to our destination around noon and had lunch all went well with the kids and their cousins. With my 3 and Lori's 4 you can only imagine the kind of chaos that was ensuing. The adults finally sat down and had dinner after the kids were done and right as dinner was over Derek came running into the house with bone chilling cries for his Daddy. (Tim says he hopes never to hear that kind of call for him again.) Sarah had fallen on a brick patio and scraped her face and then smashed her head of the unfinished front of a cement step and put a huge gash in her forehead. There was lots of blood and we knew a trip to the hospital was in order. I scooped up Nathan my brother in law keep Derek and his four and Lori drove us to the hospital a blood soaked Tim hold a bleeding Sarah. The emergency room was wonderful they took us right in and took great care of Sarah. She ended up with four stitched in her head and was told to keep her out of the sun and watch and take great pains so that she doesn't scar.

What I haven't told you up to this point is the trooper that my girl is. She is so strong she hardly cried at all when they put the stitches in her lip and they gave her local anesthetic shot so it had to be a bit painful. Only silent tears rolled down her cheeks and she never complained it hurt at all. Thursday's head injury hurt more she there was more crying but after about 30 minutes she had stopped and then even while putting the stitches in we talked about her upcoming fourth birthday. She was a wonderful little thing and I am so proud of my little peanut. She is shy about her head and doesn't want to talk about it, not even with mom and Dad. The only people she will tell is Grandma and Grandpa. So she is getting better and had her stitches out today and made no noise. My little Sarah is a beautiful girl with a wonderful personality who had a week that left us in stitches, literally!