This was from last night:
Holy crap. Katie just fell out of bed. There was a loud crash and crying and I ran upstairs to check on her. I could see that she had a smear of blood on her forehead, but no cut. so I was holding her and walking around and trying to get her calmed down. And then I started noticing more and more blood. Ugh, it made me nervous.
It looks like she has a small cut on her eyebrow and another small (but bigger) cut under her chin. Lots o’ blood. I think she’s ok. We’ve gotten everyone cleaned up, and she and Stagg are downstairs watching TV for a little while. My biggest concern is that her chin/neck look sort of swollen and it is freaking me out a little. Not enough at this point to go trucking down to the ER, but I do feel like I dropped the ball the last time she fell out of bed and cut her eyebrow, and I hope I’m not making the same mistake this time.
I just keep trying to remind myself that facial cuts bleed a lot.
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This afternoon:
Of course, Katie was fine this morning and has been acting completely normally all day. She has even tried to convince me that she didn’t fall out of bed, but got out of bed and walked across the room and fell on the rocking chair. Not sure what to make of that since I can’t imagine how it is possible.
Anyway, one thing I forgot to mention last night was that Maggie woke up in the middle of the commotion. She woke up a little when Katie first fell and was screaming, then was in & out for a while. At one point when Stagg & I had Katie downstairs trying to clean her up enough to see the cuts, Maggie started crying and calling for us. Stagg told her she was going to have to wait and we’d be up in a minute. As soon as we realized that Katie’s cuts weren’t major, he went upstairs and calmed her down. About 15 minutes later, I went up to get Katie’s cat doll (Heow) and Maggie was still awake and whimpering a little. She was really worried that something had happened to Katie and we had just left her all alone. She also wasn’t a fan of being left upstairs all by herself. I talked to her for a couple minutes about what happened, assured her that everything was ok, and she fell right back to sleep and slept until this morning.
Actually, she was up a bit early this morning and we chatted and generally had a little extra time. All was well. Until 11ish when I got a call from school saying that Maggie wanted to talk to me because she missed me. She got on the phone, told me she wanted me and then burst into tears. When everyone else went outside to play, she didn’t want to go because she was still too worried about Katie. She was really freaked out that there was something very wrong. Ugh, it really ripped my heart out. And of course, Katie hates talking on the phone and refuses to do it. So, we went to school so that Maggie could be reassured that Katie was indeed ok.
It was cute. Maggie saw her and came running across the yard toward Katie. She stopped dead in her tracks before hugging her though to give her a very motherly full body once-over and then hugged her. It made me laugh out loud. We all went out to lunch and she told me that she didn’t do centers or anything this morning because she was too worried. She just sat with Miss Stephanie and colored. She was a little mad at me because I didn’t wake Katie up to show her that everything was ok. I apologized and explained that I didn’t know she was worried because she didn’t tell me and she didn’t seem worried to me.
I guess this is why she was awarded “Most Compassionate”
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