A lot of you already know (you know, the two 12 people who read this blog.. lol), but last night, our Summer took a little bit of an unexpected turn. The girls were already laying down, Tim and I were both feeling a bit under the weather, so we headed to bed too. We were in our room when we heard a blood curdling "DADDY!!!!!!" coming from Molly. Tim ran out there, and by time I got out there, there was blood all over Molly's feet. Kadie was standing next to her door, crying and saying she didn't mean too. Tim took a look at her foot and told Kadie to get dressed, and then told me she needed to get to the ER. Thank GOD we live on base BTW. :)
We took her in, and Molly is fine. She was SUCH a trooper in there last night. Hysterical for about the first hour, but what do you expect? She was in a LOT of pain. About the time where she started to calm down from the pain and being scared of being in the hospital, she actually SAW her foot, and it started all over again. She had 3 x-rays of her toe taken, and she did fabulous during x-rays, not moving her foot so she wouldn't have to have more pictures taken. You could tell how afraid of the equipment she was, but she continued to just push through all of it.
We got back from the x-rays, and the doctors came to see her. They determined before the x-rays even came back that her toe didn't look broken. (Tim and I both thought it was - it was REALLY curved inward.. I learned something new about my daughter last night - the same toe on each foot curves in like that). They did wait for the x-rays to be absolutely certain though. After that, they said they were going to send the corpsman back in to clean up her feet. They COULD give her some injections to numb up the toe while they did that, but the injections would be more painful (and traumatizing) than just making her grin and bear it. So that's what we did, she didn't get pain meds while they cleaned up her foot. Talk about a trooper, she sat there and while she did cry and whimper, she just took it. We had our ipad with us, and she played with that. Tim said it was obvious that she was in a lot of pain while they were doing it, but she did her best to keep herself distracted. By the end of the night, we found out that her toe has a big laceration (it looks like about half the nail was ripped off), and is very bruised. They dressed it and then wrapped her whole foot up in an ace bandage that has to stay there for a few days. I told the doctor there was NO way she'd keep it on, and he said to try, but if it came off, considering her age, it came off. No harm, no fowl. Just to make sure to keep that foot clean. (so no backyard playing for her.. lol). Shockingly, while she HATED the dressing at first, she was distracted by the ipad, and has kept the dressing on. Last night, we called it a boo-boo sock and told her not to take it off because it's keeping her big boo boo from getting more boo boos, and she's been alright with it on ever since.
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| relaxing with Daddy this morning. |
This morning, she's still kind of out of it. She's slowly coming out of her shell, but she's still baby'ing the foot. It'll probably be a day or so before she wants to put weight down on it, and honestly, I don't blame her one bit! I'm so proud of how she did in there - she was scared, but just kept on chugging through last night!
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| chilling out and playing Ipad!! |
