You know the one, the one that’s different from any other, the one that makes you realise instantly that something isn’t quiet right. It makes you feel sick to the stomach.
Well I had that scream on 17th July this year.
It was just your usual Sunday morning pottering around, the kids had just woken their dad up and we’re playing like normal. We wandered into the kids room to examine their broken blind when we heard it, I felt my stomach drop.
We both ran into the master bedroom where they were last seen playing and I found Kayleigh knelt over by my bed. Instantly I’ve picked her up and she had her hand over her mouth crying hysterically. Placing my hand over her’s, I realised just how bad this was when the blood started to drip through my fingers too.
We have had a few accidents with bumps and bruises but nothing to this extreme.
Once we had managed to calm her down and call the grandparents to come get Ethan we managed to get a look at the damage, she had managed to split her bottom lip from front to back down to the bottom.
So off to the A & E we trotted with a damp towel on the lip, getting there about 9.40am for it to be empty! Thinking we wouldn’t be very long i didn’t take much with me other than my purse etc. I was still dressed in my house clothes which were covered in blood and Kayleigh was still in her PJ’s which were covered in blood too.
After being sent to another part of the hospital and then back again to see someone else they agreed she needed to be put to sleep to have the stitches in so we commenced our wait in the A & E waiting room to be seen by the MaxFax team and be taken to the children’s ward. This must have been about 10.40 and by then the bleeding had slowed down and Kayleigh was in a good mood all things considered. We was also told nil by mouth as they were unsure when the surgery would take place.
So my little baby sat with her lip like this:
And then we waited…
and waited – still in A & E Reception…
Till just after 2pm! when they finally took us into the Major side of A & E. This was when someone finally looked at the damage done then set up Kayleigh’s numbing cream on both hands and sent us up to the ward to wait to be called.
By this time Kayleigh was extremely hungry and thirsty but we had to keep distracting her, hoping the IV line would go in soon to rehydrate her.
After a very long wait we eventually got taken down to theatre at 7.30pm for them to finally sort out her IV line in preparation. I was due to go in with her whilst they put her to sleep but I just couldn’t, I couldn’t bring myself to watch it so sent her dad in instead.
The guilt I felt was immense, never before had I been in this situation and I couldn’t be there for her. I wasn’t brave enough to watch her go through this yet since we had gone to the hospital she hadn’t cried or whimpered about her lip.
Even when they put the IV’s in she didn’t cry once, she was my brave girl.
After what felt like the longest 40 minutes of my life we were called in to recovery to go see her. I wasn’t expecting them to put her straight in my arms and let us take her back to the ward so quickly.
As we were wheeled back to the ward I snuggled her close, she was out cold and almost snoring!
By the time we were settled back on the ward only one of us could stay so I sent DaddyvsWork home to get us both a change of clothes and supplies as I decided to stay ready for when she woke up and needed me.
That was at 3am when we sat eating terry’s chocolate orange and fruit shoot. Everything I am against but she was hungry, in pain and had been so brave I just wanted her to have a bit of comfort.
We eventually got discharged from the hospital at just after 3pm the following day. After 31 hours in hospital I was just glad to get home!
So there you go, probably one of the worse days of my life since becoming a parent I just hope I never hear that scream again. Kayleigh on the other hand recovered well enough to go to her end of pre-school party and got transformed into a ladybird – I on the other hand took a lot longer to recover from the whole incident.
Awww, what a brave girl x I had 2 days like that with my 4 year old son in July-on the tuesday he was running in the garden and fell and caught his mouth on a folded up ladder that was right out of the way and cut his gum. i took him to the dr’s as there was a flap of gum, but the dr assured me it was only the thin bit that attaches between the gum and top lip and it would drop off (YUK!!) Once it had I could see it was actually gum and he now has a gap above his tooth where gum should be, but luckily his tooth has stayed in place (even if it is a bit bruised)
the second accident was on the sunday of the same week-was playing in the garden for a bit before dinner, and tripped and hit his head on the side of his scooter-was a deep cut that involved a trip to a & e and some ‘magic’ glue-he was so brave bless him, didn’t really whinge at all apart from just after doing it, and when the dr was putting the glue on-but got outside and he was running around again-giving me kittens!!
I hope that scream is one that neither of us (or any other mummies!) have to hear again! xx
Aww bless – I hope he is ok now.
I think as parents we suffer shock much longer after – i know what you mean about having kittens. I was worried for so long after that she was going to hurt it again 🙂
God how scary, glad she’s okay now x
She’s fine now thank you 🙂
Oh there’s nothing worse than the horrible trip to hospital and the waiting around. You eventually get home filthy, hungry, dehydrated and overwhelmed with exhaustion and emotion. Thank goodness we have only had to endure it for a couple of days at a time….
A couple of days is more than enough – fingers crossed for no more trips back!
Lips bleed so much too don’t they. My son has caught his lip several times (not bad enough for A&E) and it just gushes. Glad she was ok, she sounds like she was an angel about it. I’d hate to have to watch my son being put under, I’m with you there. The day after we came back from the hospital with him when he was born we ended up in A&E because he wouldn’t wake up, they had to do lots of blood tests and I just sat there traumatised, I couldn’t comfort him because I was frozen in fear.
Its a horrible feeling as you know you should be there but you just cant, i hope your son is ok now 🙂
Oh my goodness! That must have been such an ordeal for you all. Glad your little one is okay.
Thank you!
Sorry you’ve heard The Scream! Mummy and Daddy heard it when we went on holiday and I took a dive off my Trunki and bust my nose on the pavement. Thankfully, not long in A&E for us. I guess take comfort that every parent seems to hear it at some point.
Aww poor little lady, what a scary time for you all, glad she is okay now x
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