I saw her bone

Sophia, Riley and I went to MOPS today. As we were on our way out of the church, Sophia tripped and hit her head on the concrete block window sill. She let out a blood curdling scream and turned to me. Right above her left eyebrow was a gash, about 1 1/2 inches in length and it was literally GUSHING blood. I dropped Riley's carseat and ran to her. I looked at the gash and I could see her skull at the base of it. I about lost myself. I screamed for help and thankfully I was in a church full of moms! They helped us out and got some gauze and a band aid on Sophia to get the bleeding to stop. Blood was everywhere; on her face, in her hair, all over our hands, on our clothes, some even got on Riley's carseat. I was frantic. You'd never guess I was a trained RN. I felt so dazed and faint and frantic. She never lost consciousness, but I saw her bone y'all! That was not cool.

Well, a dear Mops mom drove with me to the hospital. Jamie met me there. My dear friend Loree, who also goes to Mops, was so generous and offered to take Riley. I ended up keeping him though b/c he really needed to nurse and I figured I'd be okay with him there as long as Jamie was with us.

Well, 5 vending machine purchases (it's amazing what you'll do to try and comfort your child when things are so out of your control!) and 1 1/2 hrs. later we were in an ER room. If you heard a child screaming around 1:30 pm this afternoon, that would've been my daughter. She is almost 4, she is strong, she is strong willed, she did not want to be in the hospital! She kept saying, "Let's get out of here, just you and me, let's leave." Oh man.

So, Sophia was forced on her back and wrapped up in a blanket like a straight jacket and then was restrained by three nurses and Jamie. The Dr. proceeded to shoot lidocaine (numbing stuff) into her gash with a huge needle multiple times. {are you kidding me? I'd be freaking out too!}Oh, that was fun. Then, he had to stitch her up, twice... that's right. He was finally done and then he noticed that all her flailing had busted them, so he had to pull them out and do it again!

My poor girl was soaked with sweat when it was finally done. She got a popsicle at the hospital, then we went to get ice-cream.

The dr. said her bone and nerves are intact and he doesn't think infection should be a problem. She slept for 3 hrs. this afternoon and asked to go to bed tonight (um, yeah, never happens!).

She really is okay though. The stitches have to stay in for 5 days then she has to keep steri strips on for another week.

Here she is right after getting stitched up. The swelling is much better now.

She is a trooper and I'm so thankful to Jesus that it wasn't any worse.