We had a couple of firsts this past week.
Jenna fell down. That in it self is not new, all the bruises and scrapes make her look like an abused child. What was new however was the split skin on her eyebrow. It's the first time we've had some heavier bleeding with her. Head wounds always seem to bleed a lot. It seems to be healing just fine and hopefully will not scar to leave a hairless line in her eyebrow.
Our other first was the first bloody accident on the trampoline. I know what you're thinking. "Oooh, trampolines are so dangerous!" but at least it happened at home instead of the neighbors. Actually, it didn't happen on the trampoline at all. Jordan, our kamikaze child jumped off the tramp onto the grass as he has since the second day we got the thing. (It takes too much precious time to climb down the step ladder.) Unfortunately, little sister Emma decided to try it too. I was in the kitchen trying desperately to catch up on the dishes after our foray into salsa making (see previous post) when she came pounding on the door screaming. At first I thought she had just split her lip but on further examination realized she had bitten her tongue badly. Her two front teeth had gone about half way through her tongue, leaving two deep gaping holes separated by a little piece of flesh. It was bleeding very badly and I wondered what to do as I cleaned her up and tried to talk in a soothing voice despite feelings of hysterics. I was amazed that she was crying more because she was angry at Jordan for "teaching me that trick" than because she was hurt.
Somewhere in the recesses of my brain I remembered learning that they don't stitch tongues. (Actually, I later found out they do if they are shooting blood or about to fall off. Thankfully, neither of these applied to this situation.) I tried to call our neighbor the physician but he wasn't home and so I called our other neighbor the nurse. She confirmed that it wouldn't do any good to take her in and told us to just flush it with a salt water solution periodically and that her tongue would heal completely within 72 hours. We are so blessed in our neighborhood to have so many kind people, so willing to help.
I am sorry to say I doubted the diagnosis until I saw her tongue this morning. It is amazing! It is at least half way healed! Evidently it is because of all that blood we have flowing around in our heads.
So, all is well once again and everyone is healing. Paul and I just hope that two important lessons have been learned:
1. Little sister is always watching, looking up to you, and wanting to follow in your footsteps.
2. Just because someone else is crazy enough to do something, doesn't mean you should!
Jenna fell down. That in it self is not new, all the bruises and scrapes make her look like an abused child. What was new however was the split skin on her eyebrow. It's the first time we've had some heavier bleeding with her. Head wounds always seem to bleed a lot. It seems to be healing just fine and hopefully will not scar to leave a hairless line in her eyebrow.
Our other first was the first bloody accident on the trampoline. I know what you're thinking. "Oooh, trampolines are so dangerous!" but at least it happened at home instead of the neighbors. Actually, it didn't happen on the trampoline at all. Jordan, our kamikaze child jumped off the tramp onto the grass as he has since the second day we got the thing. (It takes too much precious time to climb down the step ladder.) Unfortunately, little sister Emma decided to try it too. I was in the kitchen trying desperately to catch up on the dishes after our foray into salsa making (see previous post) when she came pounding on the door screaming. At first I thought she had just split her lip but on further examination realized she had bitten her tongue badly. Her two front teeth had gone about half way through her tongue, leaving two deep gaping holes separated by a little piece of flesh. It was bleeding very badly and I wondered what to do as I cleaned her up and tried to talk in a soothing voice despite feelings of hysterics. I was amazed that she was crying more because she was angry at Jordan for "teaching me that trick" than because she was hurt.Somewhere in the recesses of my brain I remembered learning that they don't stitch tongues. (Actually, I later found out they do if they are shooting blood or about to fall off. Thankfully, neither of these applied to this situation.) I tried to call our neighbor the physician but he wasn't home and so I called our other neighbor the nurse. She confirmed that it wouldn't do any good to take her in and told us to just flush it with a salt water solution periodically and that her tongue would heal completely within 72 hours. We are so blessed in our neighborhood to have so many kind people, so willing to help.
I am sorry to say I doubted the diagnosis until I saw her tongue this morning. It is amazing! It is at least half way healed! Evidently it is because of all that blood we have flowing around in our heads.
So, all is well once again and everyone is healing. Paul and I just hope that two important lessons have been learned:
1. Little sister is always watching, looking up to you, and wanting to follow in your footsteps.
2. Just because someone else is crazy enough to do something, doesn't mean you should!
3 comments:
What fun things I have to look forward to! I know you were trying to show us a picture of her injured tongue, but I couldn't help being drawn to her beautiful eyes. MAN! You guys are going to have your hands full with that one..
Let me be the first to say thank you Mom's in the world for keeping sane when "we kids" hurt ourselves!
Yes. A nice lesson in "If Johnny jumped off a cliff would you jump too?" It's amazing how our mouths and tongues heal so quickly? I'm glad she is healing rapidly.
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