Head wounds!

Oh my poor Naomi! She is having a bad 

year! We already know about her February stay 

in the hospital in NJ. So she was terrified of needles 

for quite sometime. She recently decided they were 

ok. However, after last night. She may never get 

over them!

Brian and I had a meeting so we left Naomi and 

Gwen with a friend. I arrived to pick them up 

after our meeting, thank goodness I was there! 

The kids had all been playing a game where 

they climb over a chair and the other kids 

boost you up a little bit to help you get over. 

The younger girl who is 2 years old did not 

understand the concept of the game. 

She pushed Naomi really hard from behind 

so Naomi fell over the chair and hit her 

head, no face, hard against the wall. 

Instantly we saw blood.

Thank goodness for me, my friend's 

mother-in-law was there and she was a 

nurse!! She helped us clean it a bit and put 

some gauze on it. We took her to our 

doctor who is wonderful and has after hours at the 

office. So at 8pm we were able to take her directly 

there and not have to wait like at an ER.

The nurse there was fantastic and helped 

calm Naomi down a lot! She put the numbing 

gel or whatever that was on her head. She did 

2 doses of it. We were able to chat with Naomi 

and take her mind off it for a bit while the gel 

soaked in. She was also able to watch Kung Fu 

Panda while she waited. But then when the doctor 

started to stitch I don't think the gel had worked 

on her. She was terrified, of course, and could see 

what he was doing so she knew it was scary, but

she also could feel it bad. So they had to give her 

5cc of some local anesthesthia. It was so so 

sad because she kept screaming "Someday save me!"

Who knew she would know to say something like

that! Gwen was crying for her too!

Anyway, after the doctor, 2 nurses and Brian held 

her down they got the stitches in. There are only 4, 

and I sure hope it heels up ok. There will be a scar 

because of the direction of the cut. I just really hope 

its not too bad. There are some pictures below if you'd 

like to see. No before pics, just after the stitches.

She is happy today and playing. She is being really 

great about not touching her band-aids. We offered 

her a treat after her stitches last night, but she just 

wanted to go home and sleep. She opted to take her 

treat this morning. In the picture you will see some 

of her chocolate popsicle under her lip. 

She also has quite a bruise on her cheek that also 

hit the wall and a giant scrape on her leg from 

the chair. 

Besides the stay in the hospital, she recently

threw up all over herself in the car on our way

to Brian's chocolate buying place. We pulled

off at a gas station. We vacuumed & shampooed

her car seat, stripped her down in the very windy

outdoors, then had to drive to a nearby Kmart

(Kmart, ugh!) and get her some clothes. So we

threw the vomit clothes out and now have to 

throw out this bloody shirt.

I'm feeling very very protective of her today. 

I don't want her to run around and I have 

decided no playground today. Hopefully I 

can make those feelings fade sooner rather 

than later! On the positive side if she ever

wants to be Harry Potter for Halloween

she'll be authentic!

I'm putting lots of space in case you don't want to 

see her ouchie so scroll down if you do want to 

see it. 

From 2009

From 2009