Emergency!

We had had a really busy week, so I thought that we would take it easy on Friday morning and then we could go do something fun around town. The weather was kind of yucky, so I thought the hotel's indoor pool would be a)inside and b)fun! And for a while, it was.





It was fun until Belly smashed her chin into the side of the pool and sliced her chin open. It doesn't look like much in the picture, but there was lots of blood. It was a pretty deep cut, so I decided to take her to the doctor and have it checked out just to be on the safe side. So instead of doing something fun like the Oklahoma Aquarium or the Gilcrease Museum we went to MedNOW! doc-in-a- box.

I decided on the Urgent Care center because I really didn't think it warranted the emergency room, I figured it would be cheaper, and I asked the desk clerk what she thought. (Now who's the crazy lady with the skin rash?) I'm not used to doing this kind of stuff without Randy and not having any back-up is a pain.





Not only did I have to keep Belly from screaming her head off about how her chin hurt...which made her chin hurt...which made her scream at me that her chin hurt, but I had to keep the other two from stabbing each other with needles from the sharps container. And they would have too.




The doctor told us that they don't really do stitches on little children's faces, so a couple of steri-strips and a good cleaning were all that were needed. All fixed!





The bad news: she has to stay out of the water until the steri-strips come off in four or five days. No more pool. I think there was more crying about that than there was about the actual injury.