Once again, Shaylyn gave us another exciting couple of weeks.
On Friday, June 15th, I was doing my major housecleaning. I do this every week on Friday because we are usually busy on Saturdays. I was trying to clean it extra nice as we were having Lex's birthday party the next day. I had just finished and it was 4:00 in the afternoon. I was just sitting down to have some lunch when Tanis comes running in the house telling me that Shaylyn fell in the window well.
I knew this couldn't be good because our window wells are fairly deep. I ran outside and as I went around the corner, she was climbing out of the neighbors window well. (I am still surprised she was able to do this on her own.) My first thought when I heard that she fell down the window well was that she broke a bone. Luckily this wasn't the case. However, she was bleeding from her head.
I know that head wounds bleed quite a lot even if it isn't bad. I got her in the tub so I could clean her off and clean off the blood to see just how bad she had gotten hurt. Shaylyn was screaming, Lex and Tanis were wondering what was going on and I am trying to talk to Eric on the phone...Such chaos. Then in the midst of her screaming (understandable, by the way) she threw up. I knew this probably wasn't such a good thing. Eric thought it was probably just because she was so worked up. Possible, I guess. So I tell Eric that it looks like the wound has stopped bleeding and he says he is getting ready to leave.
I get Shaylyn out of the tub and into some pajamas so that she would be comfortable. I hold her in my lap with a washcloth pressed to her head to clean off the wound a little more. She keeps asking for her daddy and I tell her he should be home soon. After about a half hour, she dozes off to sleep. Eric then calls and tells me he is just leaving his uncles house. I was a little upset as I misunderstood what he meant by getting ready to leave and he misunderstood how bad Shaylyn was hurt. Then while I was talking to Eric, Shaylyn woke up needing to go to the bathroom. She did that and as she was heading back to the couch, I noticed her wound was bleeding again. I told Eric this and he says, yeah she probably will need stitches then.
Eric gets home, takes one look at her head and decides that she will need stitches. We figure we don't want to go to the hospital (Also, don't know where the closest one is to us, yet) because we will be there all night. So we take our chances at Instacare.
Luckily, Instacare was able to take care of it and stitch her all up. We were in and out of there in an hour. Picture of her stitches is posted below.
As if Shaylyn cutting her head wasn't enough - Lex threw up in the car on the way to Instacare and on the way home...Then about an hour later Lex and Shaylyn both threw up within seconds of each other. I was worried that Lex was sick and that we would have to cancel his party. Shaylyn I figured was just so worked up and stuff that her stomach was still a little uneasy.
Luckily, Lex and Shaylyn were both back to normal in the morning. So we enjoyed Lex's birthday party and the rest of that day.
This past Friday we went and got Shaylyn's stitches out - all in a matter of 5 minutes. Picture without the stitches is posted below.
On Friday, June 15th, I was doing my major housecleaning. I do this every week on Friday because we are usually busy on Saturdays. I was trying to clean it extra nice as we were having Lex's birthday party the next day. I had just finished and it was 4:00 in the afternoon. I was just sitting down to have some lunch when Tanis comes running in the house telling me that Shaylyn fell in the window well.
I knew this couldn't be good because our window wells are fairly deep. I ran outside and as I went around the corner, she was climbing out of the neighbors window well. (I am still surprised she was able to do this on her own.) My first thought when I heard that she fell down the window well was that she broke a bone. Luckily this wasn't the case. However, she was bleeding from her head.
I know that head wounds bleed quite a lot even if it isn't bad. I got her in the tub so I could clean her off and clean off the blood to see just how bad she had gotten hurt. Shaylyn was screaming, Lex and Tanis were wondering what was going on and I am trying to talk to Eric on the phone...Such chaos. Then in the midst of her screaming (understandable, by the way) she threw up. I knew this probably wasn't such a good thing. Eric thought it was probably just because she was so worked up. Possible, I guess. So I tell Eric that it looks like the wound has stopped bleeding and he says he is getting ready to leave.
I get Shaylyn out of the tub and into some pajamas so that she would be comfortable. I hold her in my lap with a washcloth pressed to her head to clean off the wound a little more. She keeps asking for her daddy and I tell her he should be home soon. After about a half hour, she dozes off to sleep. Eric then calls and tells me he is just leaving his uncles house. I was a little upset as I misunderstood what he meant by getting ready to leave and he misunderstood how bad Shaylyn was hurt. Then while I was talking to Eric, Shaylyn woke up needing to go to the bathroom. She did that and as she was heading back to the couch, I noticed her wound was bleeding again. I told Eric this and he says, yeah she probably will need stitches then.
Eric gets home, takes one look at her head and decides that she will need stitches. We figure we don't want to go to the hospital (Also, don't know where the closest one is to us, yet) because we will be there all night. So we take our chances at Instacare.
Luckily, Instacare was able to take care of it and stitch her all up. We were in and out of there in an hour. Picture of her stitches is posted below.
As if Shaylyn cutting her head wasn't enough - Lex threw up in the car on the way to Instacare and on the way home...Then about an hour later Lex and Shaylyn both threw up within seconds of each other. I was worried that Lex was sick and that we would have to cancel his party. Shaylyn I figured was just so worked up and stuff that her stomach was still a little uneasy.
Luckily, Lex and Shaylyn were both back to normal in the morning. So we enjoyed Lex's birthday party and the rest of that day.
This past Friday we went and got Shaylyn's stitches out - all in a matter of 5 minutes. Picture without the stitches is posted below.
Some other good news - the tree that the boys killed next door? It started growing branches back! But then, the home builders or the company who is selling the house just replaced the tree. So now I am feeling relieved, yet guilty at the same time...Oh well, what do you do?
