*Skyla's First Stitches*

Don't read if you don't like blood or comparisons to hamburger;)

Time: 5:15 P.M. 

The kids were all playing in there room and I went downstairs to put some rice on for dinner. My Mom had just gotten home about 15 minutes before and we were talking about our day. When all of the sudden you here Hunter yelling and slurring words...Skyla is screaming bloody murder, I finally start understanding what Hunter is saying "Hurry Skyla!" "MOM!!! THERE'S SO MUCH BLOOD!" "It's OK Skyla!" As soon as my Mom and I heard the door open we both bolted upstairs. They were coming down to hall toward the stairs and we see Skyla. I haven't seen that much blood since Chris cut his fingers off. I knew it was pretty bad. Her mouth was just overflowing with blood. I put her on the bathroom counter and had her over the sink. I put my fingers in her mouth to see if a tooth had fallen out or what had happened, the lower half of her face was covered in blood so it was hard to tell, then I started getting the blood off of her face and that's when I saw it. She had a huge hole on the bottom of her lip into her chin. It was SO gross. I asked Hunter to show me what had happened and he said she was trying to do a back flip off of the toy chest into tons of blanket and pillows...my guess is that she jumped forward and down instead of backwards and hit on the corner of the toy chest. Hunter felt so awful and just broke down bawling..."please Mom, let me go with you, I don't want to leave my sister!" He was so sweet! I went back into the bathroom and my Mom looked at me and said "You've got to get her to a Dr." So I called my Dr. to see what I needed to do but they didn't have the after hours Dr there for over an hour so she told me to go to the ER or an Instacare. I told my Mom what the plan was and she looked at me and said "Just a minute!" and sat on the bathroom floor and put her head between her legs...she had just gotten her blood drawn at the Dr's and hadn't eaten yet and then the adrenaline rush hit her!  We got her some water and then headed over to Instacare. After waiting for 30 minutes to check in (not so instant:) they told me that they didn't accept my insurance...LOVELY! So we headed over to the Payson Hospital ER. She FREAKED out when anyone came near her so they had to sedate her. After about 20 minutes it still hadn't set in completely and they thought that was odd so they gave her another dose. IT WAS AWFUL! Her eyes stayed open the whole time, they Dr. said that she would be in a "dream like world" her eyes were shaking back and forth and her little leg kept moving and then she would moan every once and a while. There are no cameras allowed in the ER so the only picture I got was on my phone but I think I'm going to erase it because I NEVER want to see her like that again. But if I could have taken pictures of when they cleaned it out you would have seen how bad her hole was on the outside and then the inside is just a big ole hole that looks like hamburger all around it...SO SAD! I had to keep a hold of my emotions, not just because of her poor little face but because I had an overwhelming sense of gratitude that my children are healthy and happy. I can not imagine what it would be like to see my child suffer through a disease or cancer or anything like that and I pray I will never have to go through such a trial. As for Skyla, she got 6 stitches and will be OK, she will most likely have a scar but it could have been SO much worse. We are definitely counting our blessings!

 The triangle on the picture below is where the hole starts.

 This morning she wanted me to take a picture of her smiling:)

 Her diet for the next few day consist of Milkshakes, Popcycles, yogurt and baby food. She can't have anything with "particles" because it could get stuck in the hole on the inside of her mouth.