An ER Visit....

Sitting outside the very crowded waiting room.

Hannah's eye while waiting

So the long story is this.... Monday evening we were sorta having a rough one around here and Hannah had been sent to her room till dinner was ready. She was crying (not a huge surprise) when all of the sudden it got much louder! It was a cry that I did not recognize and so I thought that maybe she was throwing a tantrum (about this I actually was surprised). Ok and here is the part that I am still not sure that I should admit but as I heard her coming out of her room ... a very frazzled, tired, trying to make dinner mother said .... "you had better be nigh unto death to be coming out here screaming like that!" And then I turned around.... There she stood holding her eye with blood gushing between her fingers!!! I about died!! At first I thought that she said the dog had bitten her and I was so afraid to move her hand. But I did and found that what had happened was that the dog had scratched her eye lid slicing it open about half an inch. But let me tell you when it first happened it looked like the longest half inch that you have ever seen! After going back and forth about what to do we called a doctor friend who said that we should go in. Of course it was just after five and the doctors office was closed so into the emergency room we went. After five and a half hours they called us back and cleaned out the wound, glued it shut and sent us on our way with a prescription for antibiotics.



Worried while waiting for the doctor.


Waiting for the glue to dry.

After hearing a few stories about untreated dog scratches while in the ER I was very thankful that we had had a doctor friend to call for advice as I was not going to take her in! To top off the night I almost passed out when the nurse was cleaning her eye!! I think that it was a combo of tiredness, hunger and relief mixed in with a healthy dose of queasiness due to all that we had seen while waiting in a very overcrowded waiting room! Anyway, that has never happened to me and poor Hannah was so worried! They actually had to give me juice and crackers and sit and rest my head. I think that the only thing that stopped me from actually going out was knowing how bad Hannah would freak out! Like I said long story long ... all is well now and her eye though many shades of purple is healing nicely! Thank the Lord it could have been so much worse!


A photo captured by daddy ...sleeping peacefully in the morning.