About Me

I'm a mother of four girls and one boy and I've got the greatest husband in the world-and I'd bet the farm on that one. We're a great team although he says he's moving out of the house as soon as all our girls are teenagers. We're very strong in our religion which is in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I draw strength from my religion and my family. I love life and am grateful to be surrounded by such great family and friends. I am gently reminded daily of the love and blessings that our Heavenly Father has for us. I live the life I always dreamed of having. I don't know how I was so blessed. Sometimes I feel undeserving to have the perfect life I always wanted. But I'm not complaining! I'm the luckiest girl in the world. Life goes up and life goes down, but even during the lowest so far, I'm still happy. Still know that I will have my family forever. Still know that my husband adores me and I him. Life is so good.

Monday, May 26, 2008

Jocelyn's trip to the emergency room.

So it's 12:12 am and I'm sitting here waiting for Aaron to call me from the emergency room to tell me what's happening with Jocelyn. She split her face open on the coffee table tonight while we were having family-home-evening. She was just dancing around and tripped. I saw her face bounce off the corner and knew it was going to be bad. The blood was dripping down her neck by the time I got her to the bathroom. Sorry about the graphic details but I'm sure she'll want to know them when she reads this later. She has a huge gaping hole. I've never seen anything so gross before. I can't tell if it goes all the way through to the other side or not though. I just knew she'd have to have stitches. We loaded everyone up in the van then decided to leave the other 3 girls with a neighbor.
First we stopped at the urgent care who informed us that they usually can do stitches but she would need sedation and plastic surgery to repair it. Our second stop was at my parents house for a blessing (they live about 2 blocks from the hospital) then off to the emergency room we went. If you've ever been to an emergency room you already know that it takes FOREVER to actually see a doctor. Good thing the bleeding had stopped already. They just take their sweet time there. Anyway, after about 20 minutes they called us in and got some info and then sent us back out to wait another 25 minutes. We decided that I should come home and get the girls and Aaron would stay with Joci. She cried for me when I left, it was heart breaking. Aaron's cell phone is dead so I can't call him to see what's going on and I'm a worry wart so I can't sleep either. We were told that the doctor at the American Fork hospital would take a look at it then if he didn't feel confident enough then they'd send us up to Salt Lake City to Primary Children's Hospital. I guess it's a pretty serious laceration because it goes from the skin on her face into the lip-color part so they have to be sure to sew it just right so her lip line will still look normal. Poor baby. She didn't cry too much considering the severity and was getting ready to fall asleep at the hospital when I left. She's a trooper. I'm worried about her being sedated. I've never even been "put under" before so it makes me real nervous to think of a 2 year old going through that. I hope everything will be alright and that Aaron will call soon. It's past 12:30 now and still nothing. I'll update as soon as I know.

3 comments:

Aly said...

Ooh my goodness. How scary! And how sad for you to have to leave her there. I am glad she is okay. And no plastic restoration as of yet? Wow. I'm really glad everything's alright!

Karen Kunzler said...

I am glad everything turned out ok. When Shannon was 1 we thought she was having seziures and we had to get a CT scan they were going to sedate her if she couldn't hold still. Thankfully I just sang songs to her and she held still. SO scray for you though. I know the worry of it all. She looks great though!!!

Ryan and Jess said...

Oh man! I'm glad she's ok. That must have been so hard to leave her. I'm glad she didn't have to get put under. No fun!