my kind of crazy: My little daredevil

Monday, April 11, 2011

My little daredevil

Today I was at work and I got a call from Meggan that Sophie jumped off the boxes in the front room (the ones with our wood planks for our floor renovation) and she had split her lip open and probably needed stitches. I told her I'd meet her at the InstaCare. At the InstaCare they had a nurse look at it and said she would need to go to the ER since it crossed between the pink of her lip and her skin (there is a fancy schmancy word for it but I can't remember). While we were meeting with the nurse Sophie showed her a small patch of eczema on her hand and told her she had an owie and needed a band-aid. The nurse made her day when she put one on and Sophie said "thank you I all better now".

So off we went to the ER. Meggan went home to take care of the boys and Claire and I headed over. They got us right in. In triage Sophie knew the drill and held our her arm for the blood pressure cuff then her finger for the oxygen check went right to the scale and turned her head for both ears to get checked. The nurse said Sophie was the best patient she had had all day. She has been to the doctors enough to know what to do.....I don't think that's a good thing. Anyway the doctor said with stitches on her lip it was best to sedate her because if she wiggled she would have a more visible scar on her face. They used some drug that was a conscious sedative so she wasn't really knocked out but her brain was pretty much disconnected from her body. Her stitches went fast but it took her so long to wake up. She couldn't focus her eyes on me, she couldn't talk so she would grunt, she puked saliva all over me and she kept jerking her arms and legs. Finally after a few hours she was able to hold her head up and answer a few questions so she could come home. She is sound asleep on the couch right now and hopefully when she wakes up she'll be a little more like herself.

showing off the injury

her real "owie"

At the ER

showing me her "watch that says Sophie Johnson"

Claire took a picture of Sophie recovering. She got a sweet little baby doll before her stitches and named it baby Hannah because that was her doctor's name.