At least this has always been the case with us! Mae was finally back to her old self and both girls were back on schedules and in school 2 days a week.
We left last weekend to spend a few days at the lake for the holidays and unfortunately, ended our holiday at Children's Hospital before it even began!
We were having a fish fry Saturday night. Lots of fun, friends and food. Then, Jane decided to love on Dixie (one of the family dogs) and in the process was bitten. She ended up with a cut just under her eye. Since it was on her face, I quickly determined that we would need to journey back up to Children's as she would need stitches that only a plastics MD could do. (It's never a party until someone vomits or gets hurt!) We spent most of the wee hours of Sunday am in the ER and were sent home. Usually, you do not close a dog bite since it is considered a "dirty wound" (only a human or cat bite is dirtier) but since it was on her face they decided to close and hope for the best. Alas, the IV antibiotics given in the ER and the oral ones we started on Sunday did not do the trick and we ended up back in the hospital on Tuesday for IV antibiotics during a 4 day stay. Thankfully, the MDs opted to see if a couple doses of antibiotics would do the trick before opening up the wound and letting heal "naturally" (This would have resulted in a pretty nasty scar). They did and since it was allowed to stay closed we will have a smaller scar.
Jane is doing great and is taking her 2 antibiotics like a champ (with the aide of candy). A girl after my own heart she will do anything (almost) for a Hershey's Kiss! We see the OMFS MD (oral maxillary facial surgeon) on Monday am and I think we will get a good report. I have loved seeing every one's precious July 4th pics and sadly even though the girls wore there cute flag outfits I have no pics. Yep, ever the mother, I dressed Jane Harris everyday in her clothes instead of those scratchy hospital gowns! I mean a girl does have to look good for her family, visitors, nurses and MDs, right???!?!?!
I guess, I will have to post some staged pics soon!
3 comments:
Poor baby! What an ordeal :( I am glad that she is okay and back home. What a way to spend the holiday! I am sure that she was dressed to kill in the hospital :D
Poor grandparents! She gave Nana, Papa, Mimi and Cap even more gray hairs! All is well that ends well though! How blessed we are to have these grandchildren!
WOw. I am so sorry. I have been crazy busy and had not checked in for a while.
YIKES.
Glad she is better now.
Kim
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