Ouch!
We walk to pick up Seth and Carolyn from school (partly b/c the car line takes as long as walking if you want to be at the front and still takes 20 minutes if you're at the back, and partly...mostly, so that I can make sure exercise happens!) It's about 1 1/2 miles round trip...mostly uphill the way there and mostly downhill the way back.
On the way back yesterday, they were running way ahead of me (I hate when they do that - esp Kaitlyn - she should have been blonde - she is so clueless about what is going on around her - like cars driving by) - so when I saw Kaitlyn fall/SPLAT! several houses in front of me I thought, great, another fall....and I fussed at her for ignoring my instructions to stay close and not run...and told her she probably deserved to fall...
....just not quite this hard! (Yes, bad mother of the year moment...)
She freaked out when she saw blood. By the time we were home, she calmed a little, but kept worrying about the doctor giving her a poke.
When the doctor decided to 'glue it', I was relieved and thought, good...very little scar, very little pain, nothing stitched up like Frankenstein for next week's family picture! Kaitlyn FREAKED worst of all when I tried to lay her on the table. Even the doctor had to be firm to talk to her - she was seriously going CRAZY!
She did calm a little when Rob (who had left work early) came into the room (she prefers Rob and as calm as I am about blood, he is even 10X calmer) - it helped. And now she's fine...
This was our first - 'near stitches' in the 8years since we've had kids...not bad.
She can't touch/scratch/wash the area for 5-10 days until it falls/flakes off on its own. (If she does mess with it, we have to go back for stitches...so far, that fear has been enough to keep her to leave it alone.)
had a video of her talking here, but i've had issues with videos on blogger lately
On the way back yesterday, they were running way ahead of me (I hate when they do that - esp Kaitlyn - she should have been blonde - she is so clueless about what is going on around her - like cars driving by) - so when I saw Kaitlyn fall/SPLAT! several houses in front of me I thought, great, another fall....and I fussed at her for ignoring my instructions to stay close and not run...and told her she probably deserved to fall...
....just not quite this hard! (Yes, bad mother of the year moment...)
She freaked out when she saw blood. By the time we were home, she calmed a little, but kept worrying about the doctor giving her a poke.
When the doctor decided to 'glue it', I was relieved and thought, good...very little scar, very little pain, nothing stitched up like Frankenstein for next week's family picture! Kaitlyn FREAKED worst of all when I tried to lay her on the table. Even the doctor had to be firm to talk to her - she was seriously going CRAZY!
She did calm a little when Rob (who had left work early) came into the room (she prefers Rob and as calm as I am about blood, he is even 10X calmer) - it helped. And now she's fine...
This was our first - 'near stitches' in the 8years since we've had kids...not bad.
She can't touch/scratch/wash the area for 5-10 days until it falls/flakes off on its own. (If she does mess with it, we have to go back for stitches...so far, that fear has been enough to keep her to leave it alone.)
had a video of her talking here, but i've had issues with videos on blogger lately
Extra note - my friends were so nice - I was supposed to take a meal to someone who had just had a baby that day. Instead, a neighborhood friend offered to take over the meal. His daughter brought over her younger Carolyn-age sister and kept Seth, Carolyn, and Natalie so I didn't have to take 5 of them to the doctor with me...and the other kids we walk with (more neighborhood friends) were so concerned they wanted to stop by and check on Kaitlyn later that afternoon.
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I hope it looks better when I see her this weekend.
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