Hannah is a very busy little girl. she is the first of my children to really like to get into everything.. high and low to her. She has figured out how to move chairs around the house to get what she wants down and she thinks finding my knives is funny... sigh! Among many things Hannah loves to climb into Emeline's bed.. which is the top bunk. We have had to remove the ladder when Emeline is not in it to keep it safe for Hannah.
This morning Emeline and Cassie were the top bunk for some reason and Hannah wanted to join in. I was in my room and heard a loud scream followed by Emeline saying to Cassie.. Hurry go get mom.. NEVER a good thing to hear. I get to my feet and into their room rather fast and see blood dripping off of Hannah's mouth.. it was all over her shirt, hands.. you name it there was a lot of blood. I yell for Trent and take Hannah over the sink in the bathroom and proceed to rinse off the blood to see what is bleeding... I hold her toward Trent and he tells me she has bitten the inside of her lip... ok. I am holding a paper towel to her mouth and it is filling with blood.. and her mouth is shut.. where is the blood coming from? So I take her into my room and lay her on the bed. I see that she has a good cut on the outside of her mouth just under her lip line... and then proceed to put two and two together and look into her mouth.. yeah she has bitten all the way through! I freaked for a minute.. for two reasons, one she bit through and two she was still bleeding so much. I informed Trent that we needed to take her to the ER and called a friend that lived close to come and sit with the other children.
When we got to the ER they put her in the triage room promptly and had a nurse come in to assess her. The nurse decided to go and get the doctor to see if they would actually do anything for this.. since there were 7 people in front of us, in line to see the doctor and 5 of them had Flu symptoms (swine flu is all over the place here with all the college kids back) After talking to the doctor we decided to take her home. With instructions to ice it, clean it with hydrogen peroxide often and put neosporin on it a few times during the day. If it continued to bleed then take her to the Quick care office at 1. (it was almost 11 when we left the ER)
It has bled when she was eating and then again when she hit it on something.. but it seems to be getting better. It made for a crazy morning. I swear she will be the first of my children to break a bone at this rate... sigh! I love having a curious toddler!
otherwise we are up to the same old things. Micah and Emeline are liking their teachers and Cassie loves going to preschool. School is going well for Trent and I and we seem to have found some sort of schedule that works for all of us.
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