While I made peanut butter and honey sandwiches for five little munchkins, I decided to call the doctor's office to make an appointment for the kids to get flu shots. While on the phone with the doctor's scheduling department, Ellie tried to climb up to the table. While she was climbing up to the table, the chair fell over on top of her. While I tried not to pass out from the blood, I hung up on the doctor's office. It was a rough day.
The chair landed right on top of her left big toe. The toe nail was completely ripped off, hanging on by a mere thread of skin. Under the toe nail, the skin split all the way to the bone. But the tip of the toe is what made me really sick, the pressure from the chair landing on her foot, caused the end of her toe to blow out! Yes, blow out! And it is NASTY!
I called the doctor's office back and talked to them about the situation (after apologizing for hanging up on them, of course). They said that it sounded like we needed to head to the ER...so that's what we did. I loaded up my munchkins and headed to the hospital. The trip was a blur...I couldn't stop crying...I was feeling like a horrible mommy. I kept thinking that my poor baby was just trying to get up to the table because she was hungry. Because of the incident, she didn't get any lunch. Luckily she fell asleep on the drive...and I continued to cry.
When we arrived, my mom was waiting for us in the parking lot. Ellie took one look at her and smiled. She then took out her binky and stuck her tongue out at my mom! It was hilarious. What a little angel I have been blessed with. I started crying again.
We got all checked in. Ellie smiled at the triage nurse and cooperated like a champ. They took us back to the room. The doctor came in and took a look at the little bugger. He didn't want to stitch the skin under the toe nail. He said it would probably be best to re-embed the toe nail and attach it with stitches. I felt the blood swishing in my head, handed Ellie off to my mom, and sat down before I passed out.
We waited a little while for them to prepare the sterile tray for suturing and then my mom handed Hunter $5 and told him to take me to the cafeteria to get a drink. She didn't want us to be there when they injected the numbing medicine. We got back too soon. So we decided to take a seat on the floor outside the room. We heard Ellie cry...then say 'Ouch!' The doctor then opened the door and told us he would wait a few minutes for the medicine to start working before he attempted the stitches. He was amazed at how well she handled the injection. So was I!
While the doctor did the procedure and verbalized each step (much to my chagrin), Miss Ellie fell fast asleep. She didn't flinch or move at all. A tech was holding her down, but I don't think he knew what to do because she wasn't fighting him. The doctor then bandaged her foot.
He told us that it was likely that her toe was broken because of the trauma. So he ordered x-rays. They wheeled my sleeping beauty down the hall on this huge bed to the radiology lab. After that grand attempt not to wake her up, her eyes flew open as soon as we entered the radiology room. She started crying, but they were able to get the x-rays done with no problem. The doctor confirmed that her toe is broken...
While waiting for the discharge papers, Ellie kept saying, "Daddy! Home! Hurt!" and continued saying that until we got home. My poor little angel is in a lot of pain! I am still crying! I am listing the table and chairs for sale tomorrow...hated them before today...really hate them today. The chairs fall over all the time. Wish I would have gotten rid of them before today!
Doesn't she look like a little angel?
Blowing kisses/saying thank you to her brother and sister for giving her treats.
Is that the best pouty face or what? Grandma told her not to touch her owie and she responded with this.
Right after getting two numbing shots in her big toe! In her words, ouch!
Um, OUCH!
Stitching...
Entertaining herself...
Entertaining himself...
