My Wee Lassie Had a Fight with a Chair

Guess who won?

At the Hospital Waiting for the Doctor 

She came running down the slide, lost her balance and connected her face, mainly her nose, with a picnic bench chair.  

Crack!  

Blood everywhere!

We rushed off to the emergency room, where the doctor confirmed that she would need stitches to the gash on her nose. The doctor gave her pain medication and a sedative so we could go get an x-ray.  Kaylin then got really nervous, she because didn't know what to expect.  We just told her it was a massive camera that took pictures of her bones.

My brave wee lassie got her x-ray and we went back to the ER to see the doctor.  He injected a numbing agent into her would on her nose, and Kaylin screamed and cried.  

Poor wee button - it was really painful....and all I could do was hold her hand.  My Boerewors handled the situation beautifully and calmly.  He was awesome.

She got four stitches on the bridge of her nose and x-ray revealed no fractures only lots of swollen tissue.   I guess she's gonna have a shiner or two with this face plant.

Xrays show no fractures but she needed 4 stitches

Two hours in the ER and watching your little one ride the pain meds wave was certainly entertaining.  She was high as a kite last night and she couldn't understand why we kept giggling at her silly behaviour.

Now she looks a little like Neytiri from Avatar, minus the blue body paint.

My Black Eye - 24 Hours later

Yesterday I was delivered a black eye in a very unusual way.  Check the story out here . Well, its now 24 hours later - see the progess

Starting to go purple.....

This Morning

Ring-A-Ring-A-Rosies and I fell down

Last night the girls and I were playing Ring-A-Ring-A-Rosie, the three of us holding hands and turning in a circle. When we got to the "all fall down" part, instead of just sitting down on her bum like Kaylin did, Megan jumped up before plonking down on her bum. When she jumped up, the back of her head connected with my right eye and my glasses flew off. She cracked me quite a shot!!!

My first reaction was to yell out loud and run to the bathroom to consol myself and sob for a while. My eye was on fire and I just kept my hand over it, applying a wee bit of pressure to soothe the pain. I was thinking, gosh I think my skull is cracked and I was wondering if I was bleeding. After a few minutes, I eventually took my hand off my eye when the shooting pain had subsided a little and looked at my face in the bathroom mirror. I have a cut about my right eye obviously from the frame of my specs and a little swelling and bruising.

Emerging from the bathroom, Megan was in tears, clearly upset and feeling awful and after seeing the extent of my "injuries", She said "Sorry mummy. I didn't mean to hurt you". I explained that it was VERY sore but it was after all an accident and that she didn't intentially mean to hurt me. All was forgiven, tears were dried and we moved on.

This is what my eye looks like today....

It is often suggested that the rhyme relates to the symptoms of plague, specifically the Black Death - the bubonic plague that spread through Europe in the 1340s, or to the Great Plague of London, 1665/6. The plausible-sounding theory has it that the 'ring' was the ring of sores around the mouths of plague victims, who subsequently sneezed and fell down dead.

How ironic. So I have the "black" eye and fell down, but at least I'm not dead!!!