Aydi's ER Visit

We got back from the ER about an hour ago. Only 2 hours, I thought they did fairly well. Aydian was trying to brush her teeth with Jessi, but rather than go and get the stool to stand on, she tried to stand on top of the diaper pail. It went out from under her and she came down (I think) cracking her jaw on the sink. Aydi started screaming and Jessi yelled that she was bleeding. I thrust Korben at Ari and went to the other girls and held Aydi to me. I briefly peeked at her lip and saw blood and a wound. Then there was more and more blood, so when Jessi brought a fresh wad of tissue paper to change it out I got a better look... at a very large gash on the inside of her bottom lip. I looked over at David briefly and said I thought she might need a stitch. Then I lifted her to my lap and took the tissue off again... and noticed that the hole went clear through her lip.

When David saw that he jumped up immediately and I wrapped Aydi in a blanket. We jumped in the van and went off to the hospital. She was a VERY good girl, stopped crying as soon as she was strapped into her carseat in the car (David drove, I sat in back with her with a wet cloth on her mouth). The ER doc looked at her lip and said yes it would need stitches... then he handed her about 6 stickers and me a pad soaked with numbing fluid to hold on her lip. She was having fun putting the stickers all over herself, David , and I til the doc and 2 nurses came in with a large blanket. They swaddled her to hold her arms down, then 1 held her jaw/head, 1 held her body, David held her legs, and I stood at her head coaxing her to look up at me.

The doc put in 3 stitches around the wound (it was bigger than I thought, but was a puncture, the lip itself wasn't torn through thank goodness) and was done in about 15 or so minutes. The inside of the lip looked bad too, but he said that would heal in just a few days, it's the outside that will take longer. David said later that she didn't really even struggle at all, and she barely cried the whole time. My big brave girl! I think I had it harder just having to stand there and watch... though it was very interesting.