Close Call

I have always said Alyvia would be my wild child and get the most bumps and bruises. Well, yesterday at the pool she put some merit into that statement. The pool we go to has a tile fountain in the shallow end, Alyvia spends about 90% of her time here because the water is only a foot and a half deep. She is also notorious for looking behind her as she walks. Well, her and Brock were playing and she got excited and started to run while looking the other way and slipped and hit the corner of her eye on the fountain. Thank goodness James was with us because he immediately scooped her up and head to our towels. We flagged the life guard down who brought over the first aide kit. The cut looked pretty bad and James decided we needed to get her to the urgent care because it was so close to the eye and looked deep that stitches were going to be needed.

While James took care of some quick paperwork for the lifeguard (saying they weren't liable) I headed home to drop Brock off at the neighbors. He was all worried about his sister but playing with his friends and eating dinner with them took his mind off of everything! I headed back and picked up James and Alyvia and off to the doctors we went. By the time we got to the urgent care Aly was already acting like her silly self.

We went into triage and the nurse cleaned her up and put a huge bandage on her face to help with the blood flow and told James and I that she agrees with us that Aly would definitely need stitches. We headed back to the waiting room and where we both just sat in silence taking it all in. I know kids fall and get stitches all the time and that its very common but thinking about them stitching her up so close to her eye and having to put a needle into it to just numb the area made me beyond nauseous. I was literally feeling faint and sick.

We finally get called back and the doctor comes in. He was really nice and very gently with Aly as to not scare her. He looked over the area and then said he honestly didn't think she would need stitches!!! We were both beyond relieved. It was like a huge weight lifted off our shoulders. All he did because it was close to the eye was apply some steri strips to help keep the wound closed.

This was definitely a close call but I am so happy that she didn't need stitches after all. She will however we sporting a nice little shiner for a few days!