About 6:30 we went and had dinner with our ward in the park, followed by a swimming party. We were having a great time swimming and going down the water slides. Maddie is so crazy in the pool. She gets so excited now that she can swim on her own. She is always diving under the water and swimming everywhere.
But right before it was time to go home. Maddie flung herself under the water, swam forward right into the side wall. She came out of the water crying and blood everywhere. She had split her eye open just under her eyebrow. It didn't look to horrible but it was pretty deep and it opened pretty far when she would close her eye.
We headed to the ER, where the doctor confirmed she needed (5) stitches. And since the sewing was going to be so close to the eye we had to sedate her. She was very brave the whole time, she didn't cry until they gave her the shot. It was kind of sad to see her all out of it with her eyes twitching and her gurgling. But as soon as they started giving her shots around her eye and sewing it up-I was very glad she was sedated-she would have been flipping out! It took her about 15 minutes to start coming to. She got pretty funny for awhile. I told her they would bring her a Popsicle and asked her what color she wanted. She kept puckering her lips and opening her mouth like she wanted to talk but it wouldn't come. Finally, really slowly she said b-l-u-e. And she continued to look dizzily around and repeated blue, blue, blue. She continued to say things that didn't make sense and repeat herself. I wish I would've had the video camera.
They sent us home around 11pm and Maddie was pretty much back to normal-just couldn't walk yet. They did a great job stitching her up. They said it shouldn't really even scar up at all. But we made it through our first ER visit-I knew it was bound to happen with one of the kids eventually.
Here is what her eye looked like this morning-much better! It's still pretty sore and uncomfortable, but looking much better.
3 comments:
The sewing up job looks great. Wish they would have had better eye seamstresses when a swing sliced my eyebrow when I was three. Maddie is a survivor and she'll go on her merry way like nothing happened.
Poor Maddie! Good job to the doc that stitched her! That is funny about her behavior when she was coming to...I always cry! Never fails, the tears just start coming! Maybe it's the thought of not knowing what happened while I was out! Good job at making it 4 years before an er trip! :)
Oh that's horrible! I'm so glad she's doing better, she's a trooper and a tough cookie just like her mom! I'm proud of you Maddi!
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