Of course, as soon as I post that it only gets better...
Went to the kitchen to get some tea and heard our 15 year old daughter fall in her room. Ran upstairs and she had hit her head on the corner of her waterbed. 1 1/2" - 2" slit in the back of her head. Helped her up and we walked down the stairs. I put her in a chair by the desk light so I could get a better look at the damage and called Bear in.
I went to the kitchen to get a cloth, and Bear called out that she was having a seizure. Grabbed the phone for 911.
Seven hours later we are home from ER. 9 staples to close the gash. They said the blow to the head probably caused the seizure. A one time thing. We still don't know why she fell in the first place. Said she had gotten up to let the dog out of her room, but hadn't felt dizzy or anything. Just remembers falling. She is resting now. No headache. Talk about giving Mom a scare and a half!
The really good news for a 15 year old girl... They didn't have to cut any of her hair to put in the staples.
Just more fun ahead, sozobe. Really!
Yikes, squinney!!! Is she OK?
How scary for everyone.
She's back to school today after resting all day yesterday and raking in the sympathy and goodies from all of her friends.
She even got a coveted elevator pass for the day!
Trying to look on the bright side...
I'm glad to hear that your daughter's back to school, squinney. That must have been horribly scary.
Thanks, Mac11. it was really all of the strength I could muster to not fall apart. Thank God for Bear! (Hey, I think that's one of those "Things you'll never hear on a2k")
Okay, I'm rephrasing my advice for sozobe from the previous page: After this past Sunday, it only gets better!
Heh! Knock on wood!!
I can imagine how difficult it was not to fall apart... a seizure no less. Terrifying.
It sounds like it was anamalous, just a matter of healing up?
Damn Squinney... glad everything seems to be okay.
(Goes back to lurking in this cool thread's shadows)
(How's your daughter doing, Squinney?)
Way behind on this, lots of stories but can't remember at the minute, this just happened:
sozlet got a Disney princess tea set at her birthday party. She is playing with it, and I noticed that the decorative sticker on one of the cups had been picked at, making a mess. I asked absently, "how did that happen?", and she said, "I don't know." I kinda said hmmm. Then she said, completely earnestly, "maybe it was a raccoon!"
when I was only a bit older than the Sozlet I discovered that a little toy car I had made wonderful pencil-like lines on the white wall as it wheeled - drawing merrily away - aaaagh! when asked who'd done it I said I didn't know - my mum asked if I thought she'd done it? I was an only one! no hiding place!
yes, hope your daughter is ok now Squinney.
My brother used to "draw" on the walls fairly often as a toddler. They were cleaned or painted over many times until Mom decided that one of his drawings was pretty good and just left it there. That cured him.
p.s She was an art teacher and he grew up to be an architect.
That's cool!
A stupid stupid parent let her kid come to the birthday party sick, and sozlet's been very sick since Saturday evening. (Thought it was specific to that night and she was over it, but then got much worse on Sunday, took her to the ER with 105+ fever and everything. Worst seems to be over, I hope.)
Anyway, when she was sick but we thought she was mostly over it, we had dinner, and she and I got into this thing where our two fingers were legs/ people walking up to the edge of her refried beans, screaming "It's mud! Eek!" and then running away. So that became that I was Dora and sozlet was Boots and we had to go bridge, mud, and then we were deciding what the third should be. (Apologies to those unfamiliar with "Dora the Explorer", that's the format.) We were kind of generally commenting that mud is gross, hmmm, and sozlet said "I know, Barf Mountain!" Then she added by way of explanation, "they'd wear special clothes so they wouldn't get all messy."
stoopid stoopid parent for exposing sozlet and other small people to not being well
stoopid !
and you can tell stoopid parent we said so.
I think next time - you bring Setanta in as bouncer/doorman - he'll protect the Sozlet!
Now that's an entertaining image!
"Stay still, I need to take your temperature. 102, nope, you're not getting close to the kiddo. Back you go. You in the pink bow, what's coming out of your nose there...?"
This 'n' that:
Yesterday I put lights on the tree. It's a blue spruce, and that thing is sharp and pointy! I was muttering G-rated curses punctuated by frequent exclamations of pain while trying to get the darn lights in place. Sozlet found this entertaining, and made up a song. It's a variation of "row row row your boat/ gently down the stream/ and if you see a crocodile/ don't forget to scream [AAAHHH!!]"
Row row row your boat
gently down the stream
and if you see a christmas tree
don't forget to say ouch [OUCH!!!]
Then she kept going...
Row row row your boat
gently down the stream
and if you see a pom-pom
don't forget to giggle [heehehehehe...!]
(She'd been playing cheerleader.)
She did about 10 verses of this, making 'em all up on the spot.
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We were talking about her ear infection (eardrum burst Thursday morning, oy) and how there had been bacteria in her ear. She said, "Oh, I see, and when the bacteria came out, they left slime, kind of like a snail...?" (Discharge.) (Sorry for ick-factor.)
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She loves to draw with her markers but has a terrible habit of leaving the tops off so they dry up. After a drawing session in which the markers and marker tops were scattered all over the tabletop, separately, I asked her to please put the tops back on while I was doing something in the kitchen. She came in the kitchen, we ate, and it was a while before I went back in the family room to check her handiwork. When I did, I found 8 markers meticulously lined up next to each other -- and remembered that part of the marker problem is that she doesn't quite have the strength to push the tops on all the way. I remembered that because she'd very carefully TAPED all of the (not quite all the way on) tops to the markers. :-D
how precious!
I hope ... and it sounds like.. she is doing better?
Soz, I love checking out your thread now and then--it always makes me smile and remember. I've begun to hope we all still correspond for many years so that I will know what she is like as a teenager and a young woman--bet she's extraordinary!!
Squinney, so glad your daughter seems to be doing well. Sometimes just being young is enough to heal anything almost instantly.
Diane wrote:Sometimes just being young is enough to heal anything almost instantly.
Sure didn't help me with the crabs when I was sixteen, Diane.
