We had an adventure with Shelby tonight. She was in her room around 10 PM, jumping on her bed. She was supposed to be laying down, waiting for me to come read her a bedtime story. But instead she was jumping on the bed, fell, and hit her head on a screw that was sticking out of the wall. The reason there was a screw sticking out of the wall is because Shelby & Maggie switched rooms with Hunter about a month ago. Hunter had taken down a shelf, and left the screws there for some reason. I've been in their room a hundred times since they switched, but I never realized he'd left stuff in the walls.
So, anyway, she comes out of the room and has this huge gash on her head, up in her hair. It looked awful. We got ready and took her to urgent care, and an hour later we walked out with one internal stitch and three external ones. We have to take her back in a week to have the external ones removed.
She did very well, though. She cried, and tried to get up off the bed a couple of times before we got started, but she didn't fight us or anything. The nurse there was awesome, too. She was very good with Shelby, and kept her talking about school and stuff like that while the doctor was stitching her up. She got popsicles and stickers when we left.
I've gone through nearly 12 years of parenthood without having a kid have stitches (well, technically, Shelby had stitches in her throat last July when she had her tonsils out, but it wasn't due to an accident). I fully expect Shelby to be my first to break a bone as well. She is so fearless, she scares me sometimes. Is it any wonder I've found some gray hairs on my head?
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Sounds like she'll be the one with all the amazing stories to tell once she's older! Um, I mean, I hope she's ok and has fewer "adventures" in the future.
I can tell you don't wish that at all! ;p If she's anything like her daddy, she'll have tons of stories to tell. His usually start with 'I got this scar right here the time I...' ;)
That gash sounds nasty!
I did have a laugh a little at Shelby jumping on the bed when she should have been lying down. She sounds like a pip! :)
It's almost completely healed now. She had the stitches out Friday, and it looks good!
She is something else, I'm telling you. Sometimes I think she's a 15 year old in a 6 year old's body.
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