I am going to try and retell this story in the gory, traumatic way that it happened. So, you can fully have the experience with us :0)
It all started with the typical day...Rylee got home from school, we got her homework done and then she went off to play Mario with Luke on the Wii. Morgan arrives home about an hour later. She is upstairs doing homework, yelling for me to help. Joslyn asks for her 20th snack of the day. She settles in on the kitchen chair at the table eating a snack and watching Mario on the Ipad (can you tell me kids are obsessed with Mario lately).
While, I am upstairs helping Morgan there is a crying, then screaming, then BLOODY murder screaming that comes from the kitchen. As I leap down the stairs, I think only touching 3 stairs of the 12, to see Jos on her knee's on the ground, covering her mouth...SCREAMING!!! As I scooped her up, trying assess the situation..by then the other kids running to see what happened. At this point we know it is the mouth region and there is a GROSS AMOUNT of blood, running from Joslyn's hand covering her mouth. At that point I am trying calm Joslyn down and still don't know where the blood was coming from.
Rylee comes running up and asked what happened, I tell her I have no idea and am trying to figure that out...Rylee sees the amount of blood and starts screaming and yelling, that I need to do something..and points out how much blood is coming out of her mouth..while muttering is JOSLYN GOING TO DIE....Joslyn at that points starts crying even harder because she was GOING TO DIE.....SERIOUSLY PEOPLE WORK WITH ME . I send Rylee of to get the DARKEST colored rag (learned that from my Mom, so they don't see the amount of blood)..we sop up the blood and see that her top bottom lip is cut. So, we sit and cuddle for a minute letting Josyln suck on ice...but I noticed that there is still blood dripping down her chin...WHAT!?!?!? Where the heck is that coming from...as I assess the situation again, I notice that there is a cut on the outside of her bottom lip. Yep, you guessed it, her top teeth went through her entire bottom lip...it was a straight cut.
I had no idea where any urgent cares were, so I yelled for Morgan to come and hold Joslyn, so I could call around and get addresses and such...I totally not using the best judgement at this time, tell Morgan that her teeth had came all the way through her bottom lip and she would probably need stitches and she needed to hold her while I found out where to take her.....YUP, not smart telling her what happened. Morgan starts crying and freaking out...so, I looked her in the eye and as a sweet mother told her, " YOU NEED TO GET IT TOGETHER AND HOLD YOUR SISTER".....it took me about 10- 15 minutes to call and get all the info I needed to take Jos to the urgent care.
Luckly, Morgan was able to watch the kids, start dinner and put them to bed. Boomer was in town, but was at a meeting, missing all the fun action.
The next part I will spare you the LLLOOOONNNNGGGG details. After 2 hours waiting, the doctor said, they couldn't stitch it and that it would heal nicely in a few days. By the time we got home Jos and I were starving, this all happened at 5:30. We washed up the rest of her blood stain and sent her to bed. She woke up with a puffy lip, and her top tooth hurting (she keep touching her tooth to see if it still hurt throughout the day). We put medicine on her lip band aided her up and sent her to Preschool. because she was not about to miss VALENTINE'S day!!!
The part that helped the best, was the lady that checked us in at the urgent care, did the same thing when she was little and showed Joslyn the scar. So, Jos new what to expect.
So, after all the crazy moments Jos has a sweet little mark, still healing. She was a trooper. Rylee called a few times while we were at the urgent care needing to talk to Joslyn to make sure was okay and not dying. Funny girl!!! She was greeted with lots of love and hugs when we got home.
OH, I forgot to write what she did for her teeth to come through her lip. I didn't find this out till we got to the urgent care, when Joslyn was finally calm and could talk. She was just scooting up on the chair and fell off hitting her chin on the arm of her chair. Obviously just perfect enough to send her teeth through her lip.
Here is her sweet little freckled face and a healing cut....
3 comments:
Oh my ALI you are amazing!!! Loved the entire story I was sitting on the edge of my seat. What a day. i am glad Q-T is doing ok! Love her smile!
miss ya and love ya!
I hope she is doing okay now! So scary! I would have been freaking out too. Good job mama
I love the way the others are so helpful in such a crazy situation. I was sitting behind a little guy that reminded me of Luke and his cute little smile. Glad everyone was okay. Love you!
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