Last night Baylee comes running in the house saying that Avery just cut her head open and it's bleeding everywhere. I take off outside to find Avery, harldly walking straight, with blood dripping everywhere. I picked her up and layed her on the grass and immediatly could tell that she needed stitches. The cut was so deep! We finally got the bleeding stopped and went to the emergency room. Now...all of you who know Avery very well know that she has a huge fear of strangers and doctors and another huge fear of being held down. The mixture of the two didn't make for an easy night by any means. When they finally were able to see her they told us that they had called in the plastic surgeon to work on her, since it was pretty deep and on her face. I was happy about that until they said that they would like to sedate her. My heart sunk because I knew that meant she would have to get an IV placed. As Baylee and Dave left the room, the nurse wrapped her up in a sheet (which is when the screaming started) and I had to hold her down while they poked her not once, but twice!! She was such a trooper. Once the IV was in, it was all down hill from there. They put her to sleep and the stitching only took a couple of minutes. It was a pretty traumatic experience, but I don't know if it was worse for Avery or Baylee. Baylee is so sensitive and was so worried about what they would do to Avery. She was in tears most of the night too. Karen was nice enough to come and pick Baylee up so that she didn't have to suffer through any more!!
Here are some pictures after we got home...
Last night after we got home from the hospital
It's hard to tell in the pictures, but she is bruised up into her hair line as well as above her left eye.
She's been really tough so far and has even been letting me clean it.
8 comments:
Oh my gosh Leisha that totally sucks but probably it was inevitable with how crazy that little Avery is!!! She still looks pretty happy!
WOW.... what did she do outside to get that?? It is SO hard to see your kids hurt and especially stitches.... GOOD thing Braxton was older and could understand that he needed staples in his head and took it without any anesthetic either!!!!!
oh how sad! that is the hardest part of being a mom I think - to see your kids in pain! (as kathy said) I am glad she looks so good in the pictures though! Tough cookie!
did she fall off the new bike? We just got one for reese and after seeing those sad little pictures of your poor baby I am having second thoughts!!!
Oh, poor little Avery. We went thru this with Jessica and it was the saddest thing to see her look at the doctors and nurses with a terrified look in her eyes. Good thing Avery is tougher than her Daddy, it could have been a lot worse:)
Those pictures make it look pretty good, it looked much worse in person!
poor little thing! that's terrifying!
I agree with Karen it looks much worse in person. Avery is a trooper and Baylee an ideal big sister! I hope she is doing better each day.
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