Here's what happened last night after Jaidyn fell, got her crazy goose egg and threw up! By the time we got to the ER, Jaidyn was acting fine. Smiling, saying hi to everyone...her usually happy self. It only took about 10 minutes to be seen by the RN to get the basic info, so we thought maybe it wouldn't take forever...we were wrong!
It was 3 hours before we got out of there! Jaidyn got grumpy after a while cuz it was super late and she was hungry, but they told us not to give her anything. She eventually lost the sleep fight (which we were given the ok to let her sleep) and it was quiet for the next 1 1/2 hours. Right before they called us back, she woke up and she was NOT happy! She was upset and crying. Then we took her back, and the screaming began! She screamed through the whole thing!!!
The Doctor said that throwing up right after a fall is ok, because she's throwing up from the shock. The time to be worried and bring her in is if she throws up a while after the fall. That's a sign that blood is getting in the brain, which causes you to throw up. They didn't take an X-ray because she fell on her forehead (which is apparently the best place to fall if you're hitting your head) and he's never seen a fracture there from a fall as short as the one Jaidyn had. He said the minimal risk of radiation right by the eyes wasn't worth it. They gave us a dose of IB Profin to give her and told us to wake her up at 3 and 6 just to make sure she's ok. We also have to go to her doctor today to make sure she's still all good. It took another 10-15 minutes to get the discharge papers so we could leave. That's a long time at 1:00 am with a screaming baby! Spencer had to walk around with her and she refused to come back in the room with me!
After we left, we had to drive back to Ang's to pick up Spencer's car so he could go to work in a few hours! We got home around 2am and got to bed shortly after (Jaidyn fell asleep in the car). Spencer got up at 4 to check on Jaidyn (she was fine) and she woke up at 5:45 cuz she wanted milk, so she was fine then too! We slept till 10, but Spencer still had to get up at 5:30 for work! He's gonna try to be done early enough to take a nap before his class tonight. I have to go to DES today to figure out all the insurance stuff and take Jaidyn to the Dr. And I have class today and a test I haven't studied for! What a great way to start the week!
Here's the pics we took at the Hospital. They don't do the goose egg justice though. It looked SO much worse in real life!
OH my goodness it looked so much worse in reality. I mean it was just so bad I was a little nervous about her. Too bad that the pictures didn't do it justice because it was truly incredible. So so glad to hear she is ok. Hope your insurance stuff is worked out.
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