Hill Family Blog: Kaitlyn's 3rd ER Trip

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Kaitlyn's 3rd ER Trip

Last Saturday evening (3-16-13) the girls were outside playing on our deck. I was in the kitchen doing dishes and Jason was out front changing the oil in the cars. The girls were happy, the weather was nice, they didn't have to be up early the next day, so I let them play. I heard a loud sound, followed by Kaitlyn's crying (screaming) and Kinsey ran in panicked and told me that Kaitlyn had fallen off the deck. I ran out there, Jason had heard her fall and was already there. The girls had been throwing pieces of trash into the trashcan (who knows why) and Kaitlyn had climbed up on the side of the railing and tipped over. She hit her face on the side of the trashcan and then fell IN the trashcan. She fell about 6 feet. At first I thought it was a little funny, I couldn't see her face and she was sitting up and seemed fine. Then Jason grabbed her from the trashcan and starting saying, "Oh my gosh. OH my gosh" and brought her over to me. I took one look at her and knew it wasn't a simple fall. Her nose and cheek had already started to swell and she was screaming like crazy. Kaitlyn is a tough little girl and gets hurt often (she doesn't have a lot of fear) and usually only cries a bit for a minute or two. This was different and we knew that we needed to take her to the ER.

We decided it would be best for me to take Kaitlyn and for Jason to stay with Kinsey and finish up the car and close up the house and then meet us there later if necessary. Poor Kaitlyn did NOT want to go and as we drove to the ER she kept saying, "I don't want to see the doctor! I don't want to get a shot! I want to stay with Kinsey and Daddy!" She fell asleep right before I got to the ER which scared me, because she had hit her head and and I wasn't sure if she was supposed to be sleeping.

I got her loaded up in the stroller and went into the hospital. The first thing the lady at the check-in desk asked me was, "How are you doing tonight?" Seriously??? We got into triage (they also asked me how I was doing) and pretty quickly were in a room. Apparently a 3 year old with a head trauma moves you through the system pretty quickly. I was told it was okay for her to sleep but I kept poking her to make sure she was okay.

The doctor came into see her and wanted her awake. It took us almost a full minute to get her awake and somewhat alert. He did a full check on her and even got some giggles out of her. It was decided that she needed a CT scan so they could check for brain injuries and bone fractures.

Kaitlyn fell back asleep and ended up sleeping right through the CT scan, which was such a blessing because it meant we didn't have to sedate her. I waited for the results for awhile and was told that her brain was fine but she did fracture her nose. Poor Kaitlyn.

I took her home and put her to bed. I had to wake her up throughout the night just in case. She slept well and woke up at her normal time the next morning. She woke up and starting jabbering like usual. I asked her if she remembered what had happened and she said, "I fell in the trashcan!" I told her that she had broken her nose. She said, "I broke my nose?!" and then started to laugh. Later I showed her her face and she said, "Ouch!"

The break hasn't slowed her down a bit. The day after she fell I had to tell her, "Kaitlyn, don't climb on the couch. Kaitlyn, please don't jump down the stairs. Kaitlyn, we can't stand up on the teeter totter." Crazy girl. I think I am driving her nuts. I am so afraid that she is going to fall and hit her nose and that would hurt her so badly. Today and I told her to be careful (for the hundredth time) she put her hand over my mouth and said, "Don't listen to me." I think her point was, "Chill out mom! I'm fine!"

We are told her nose should heal just fine though her black eye should last about a month and go through constant color changes. We get all sorts of crazy comments and reactions when we take her places. She doesn't seem to care and tells people, "I fell in a trashcan! I broke my nose! Gerald broke his funk (trunk), piggie broke his nout (snout), and I broke my nose! Silly Kaitlyn! Daddy saved me!" (we just happened to read this book last week about breaking trunks/snouts)

We JUST signed Kaitlyn up for a gymnastics class. Today I went in to see if there was any way to get our money refunded. Kaitlyn has to wait 3-4 weeks before doing anything like that. I asked the lady what their policy was for refunds for medical reasons (they usually never refund your money) and she asked me what was going on. I told her that Kaitlyn had broken her nose. She looked at Kaitlyn and said, "Oh my goodness! Yes, we will give you a refund! That is the worst broken nose I have ever seen!"

All in all we are so grateful that the trashcan was there (though if there was no trashcan there, she probably wouldn't have been hanging over the side of the deck...) to break her fall. Had she kept going, instead of dropping into the trashcan, she would have landed head first on gravel and cement pavers. She's such a tough little girl and we are again grateful for the medical care we receive in this area, because goodness knows we need it with this little tornado running around!

In the hospital-Day 1

Day2

Day3

Day 4

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Moments...

December 13, 2010
Kinsey: "Mom, do you like being a human?"
Me: "Yes."
Kinsey: "I don't."
Me: "What would you rather be instead?"
Kinsey: "A ballerina."
October 26, 2010
Kinsey told me: "I think right now Jesus is saying 'Halloween is in 5 days! I will make it NOT rain that day.'"
June 18, 2010
Kinsey's band-aid fell off in the middle of the night. Kinsey decided, "I think Heavenly Father took it off."
June 18, 2010
Kinsey's explanation of teething: "When I was a little girl, you put some things in my mouth, and they hurted, and then they turned into teeth so I could chew! And that's what will happen to Kaitlyn."
June 3, 1010
Kinsey asked me today, "Mom, why do parents not listen?"
May 3, 2010
I braided Kinsey's hair today. When I took it out, Kinsey looked at all the waves in her hair and said, "I look like an old, old lady!"
April 29, 2010
Kinsey drew me a picture today and said, "This is for my two grown-ups; you and daddy."
January 15, 2010
I gave Kinsey a cookie tonight after dinner. She finished it and asked for another. I told her that I had already put them away and she said, "Well, can you put them un-away?"
January 15, 2010
Today was an unusually nice day (in the 50's) and Kinsey told me, "The sun dried up all that winter!"
December 10, 2009
A classic Kinsey sentence, "Mom, last morning your daughter named me and you dad named Grandpa forgot to weprise (surprise) yours mom!"
November 25, 2009
Kaitlyn woke up from a long nap and Kinsey told her, "Welcome."
November 25, 2009
Kinsey told me, "Mom, I have been holding my pee for one hours! I need to go potty." The other day she told us that she had been in rest time for "30 hours."
November 13, 2009
After her bath tonight Kinsey said, "I look as nice as a daisy!"
November 12, 2009
Kinsey said, "Kaitlyn can hear me in her left ear but not her black ear!"
November 10, 2009
Someone asked Kinsey how old I am, she said, "I don't know what letter Mommy is."
November 7, 2009
We are working on knock knock jokes but Kinsey doesn't really get them. The other day she told me this joke..."Knock knock, who's there? The missionaries! Ola!"
October 30, 2009
Jason is teaching Kinsey some Spanish. The other day she was practicing her counting and started out with "One-o."
October 26, 2009
I was doing Kinsey's hair in the morning and it was tangled. She said, "My hair is all rectangled!"
October 26, 2009
The other day I told Kinsey that we were going to go to a Halloween party at the church. She told me, "Nephi goes to our church."
October 24, 2009
Jason took Kinsey to Wendy's to eat and she told me, "I had a kids meal and Daddy had a big guys meal."
October 22, 2009
During prayer tonight..."Help Kaitlyn to be happy when her binky is in, when it falls out then she not be happy."
October 22, 2009
Kinsey told me, "Kaitlyn is hearing me! In her listening ear." She knows that one ear "doesn't work very well."
October 12, 2009
The other day I was hurrying Kinsey to get out the door and she looked at me and said, "Chill Mom."
October 9, 2009
Kinsey told me that Kaitlyn has "ABCDEFG" (referring to her CMV).
October 7, 2009
Kinsey asked me the other day if we could take a "talking picture" (video).
September 9, 2009
Kinsey told me, "I love Kaitlyn. She is such a good cleaner!"
September 9, 2009
Kinsey: "Why does that doggy have a handle?" (the dog was on a leash)
August 30, 2009
My brother came over for dinner today. After he left Kinsey said, "I just love that man."
July 19, 2009
The missionaries came over today. After they left, Kinsey said, "Them missionaries are so lovely and cute."
July 18, 2009
Kinsey noticed some guys moving furniture outside of our apartment. Some had taken their shirts off and she asked me why. I told her that they were probably hot and explained that sometimes guys take their shirts off outside but that girls shouldn't and figured that would be the end of the conversation. But a little while later she saw the guys outside again and said, "Them boys took off their shirts. They're HOT!"
July 5, 2009
The other day Kinsey told me that when she gets older, she will be angry. I later asked her what she thought the word angry means. She said, "It means I be soooo tall!" I don't know how that one got so mixed up...
June 25, 2009
The other day I started to hiccup and said to Kinsey, "I have the hiccups." A little bit later she yawned and told me, "I have the yawns."
April 22, 2009
Kinsey told me today..."Daddy mine family and you mine family. All both of you mine family!"
April 21, 2009
Kinsey noticed Jason taking a nap one afternoon and asked me what he was doing. I said, "What is Daddy doing Kinsey?" She thought for a moment and then said, "Homework."
April 1, 2009
Kinsey and I took a walk to take some things to the recycling bins. She usually brings her stroller and a doll or two but didn't ask to this time. When we were halfway to the recycling bins, she stopped in her tracks and said, "Oh my! We forgot mine stroller!"
April 1, 2009
I asked Kinsey is the eggs she was eating for breakfast were good. She thought about it for awhile and then said, "kind of."
March 2009
-I was trying to explain that we didn't need the lights on because it was sunny outside. Kinsey finally kind of caught on and said, "We don't need the lights, the sun is on!"
-That transpired into this...
I was getting ready in the bathroom, a room with no windows, and Kinsey told me, "Mommy, we don't need lights, the sun is on!"
-And finally into this:
Me: Kinsey, you don't need the light on, the sun is on.
Kinsey: No, the moon is on.
(She's two, so she argues everything of course)
February 27, 2009
Kinsey tells me that everything costs "three nine dollars."
February 17, 2009
Kinsey's newest counting method: one, two, three, four, nine, two, three.
February 1, 2009
When Kinsey finds something she is looking for she says, "This it is!"
January 26, 2009
Kinsey has a little basketball that needs aired up. She brought it to me the other day and told me that "It needs batteries."
January 15, 2009
If I don't pay attention to Kinsey when she is trying to get my attention she will start to call me "Kimmie." She will repeat it over and over again until I focus my attention on her.
December 10, 2008
Kinsey and I left this morning and I said, "Bye Hun" to Jason. Kinsey then repeated "Bye Hun" and then started laughing and said, "Kinsey say bye hun."
December 7, 2008
Kinsey has been telling me that our stockings are "Santa's Socks."
December 3, 2008
Whenever Kinsey notices that there is more than one of something, she counts like this..."one two free, one two free--a lot!"
November 24, 2008
Today Kinsey told me that the eggs I was cooking were "cute."
November 16, 2008
After Jason strapped Kinsey in her car seat the other day, she said loudly, "It's too tight Mom!"
November 14, 2008
Today Kinsey told me, "I loo Shampoo." Interpretation: I love Winne the Pooh.
November 11, 2008
I threw some clothes onto the bed and heard Kinsey say, "Oh Mama. No no throw. No no." as she shook her head in disappointment.
October 23, 2008
I put a bow in Kinsey's hair the other day and when she saw herself in the mirror she said, "Oh! Cute!"
October 8, 2008
Kinsey poked herself in the eye today and kept crying about it. Apparently I didn't comfort her good enough because she kept saying "See Cole!" (our friend Nicole). I kept telling her that we couldn't go see Nicole right now and she finally said, "Get in car and see Cole!"
October 7, 2208
We were walking around the neighborhood this evening and Kinsey spotted a dog and wanted to say hi. The dog lay down and Kinsey said "Upside woof-woof down!" (upside down dog)
October 5, 2008
Jason made pancakes this morning. Kinsey really enjoyed them and kept saying "I loo pan pans!"
October 3, 2008
Today I was getting Kinsey ready for bed and she looked up at me and said, "I loo (love) mama. A lot." So sweet!
October 3, 2008
Kinsey was walking up the stairs on her own and I said "Be careful Kinsey!" She said, "I know!" Guess I say that a lot!
September 30, 2008
Kinsey now calls ice cream "abilene" and Winnie the Pooh "shampoo."
August 30, 2008
After a day at the zoo, we were talking to Kinsey about what we had done. We asked if she had fun at the zoo, she said, "Uh huh." We then asked her what she saw at the zoo. She answered, "More and more and more animals!"
August 14, 2008
I was telling Jason how well Kinsey was doing learning her colors. I mentioned that she knows the color white. Jason said, "She knows white?" Kinsey, very confidently, broke into the conversation and said "I know white." We just looked at each other. It was her first "real" sentence that she thought up all on her own. She's growing up too fast.
June 20, 2008
Kinsey and I were taking a walk around the neighborhood when she spotted a dog, or a "woof woof" as she calls it. We went over to say hi and the dog touched her hand with his nose. Kinsey looked at her hand then said "eww" and wiped her hand on her shorts.
April 22, 2008
The other day Kinsey and I were looking at a picture of President Monson. I asked her if she knew who it was. She got really excited, pointed to the picture and yelled, "Bampa!" (Grandpa)