Tuesday, July 10, 2012

We just can’t get enough of the ER…

Yeah so we are loving our $250.00 ER deductible…not! I guess I should be grateful for health insurance at all but when you rack up $500.00 in 4 days it hurts a little. I am proud to say I was NOT me again. It was Yaya. But that doesn’t actually make it any better. Remember the independent walking thing that happened just this past weekend, yeah well, she isn’t actually very “good” at it yet and she tends to fall over a lot. For most toddlers this is just part of the process, but with Yaya it’s a bit complicated in that she has no idea how to catch herself when she starts to fall. (Think back to the posts where we had to teach her to crawl and she only did it for a short time. That is what is coming back to bite her now. Weak arms and not knowing how to transition from up to down.) So when Yaya face plants…she really face plants. She was coming around a corner and was walking on tile, she lost her balance and over she went, just 6 feet away from me. I couldn’t get to her fast enough. When she came up she had a face full of blood. We did some inspecting and saw that she was bleeding from her left cleft. It looked like just a small tear, but since we had no protocol for this we called a nurse. The nurse, without batting an eye said, “Take her to get an x-ray now.” Something about blunt force trauma on the face cracking some sort of palate in the sinuses that can cause your brain fluid to leak into your nose and in Hope’s case down the back of her throat…blah da blah da blah da. We were like, “Really? I mean she has stopped crying, it isn’t bleeding. We see the cleft doctor on Thursday…really?” The nurse calmly replied, “Yes. Really. There is likely nothing wrong but better safe than sorry.” Sigh. So Eric and Yaya headed downtown to Children’s Hospital for 3 hours, where they didn’t get an x-ray and two different doctors looked at her and said she was fine and didn’t need one. Then he and Yaya drove back in a HORRIBLE thunderstorm. Noah, Eden and I were all in Eden’s bed trying to get Eden to “sleep”. I’m not gonna lie…some lightening hit near our home and it was freakishly loud. It was a long night for us all. But Yaya was fine and that is all that really matters. Just another day in the life…

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