Makenna made one wrong move and is continuing to pay for that! We were at the gym, and Makenna was finished with her classes and was supposed to be hanging out in the back until I finished my class (like she does so easily ALL the time!) Well, her friend Bailey stayed that day and wanted to play out on the mats with Makenna. They were sent to the back and were being goofy, running there. Makenna managed to trip over a mat and face planted her head onto a door frame.
I was busy coaching and Makenna comes running over to me, blood running down her face. She wasn't crying, but she knew something wasn't right. I could see immediately that she was going to need stitiches. Someone later described it as it looking there was a bullet hole in her head, and it really did look that way.
I took her to the ER and requested a plastic surgeon to stitch it up. Makenna was such a trooper. At the hospital, the only time she cried was when she realized she would for sure need stitches. She remembered getting them above her eyebrow when she was 3 and it was NOT a great experience.
Well, the stitches themselves weren't that bad because of the medicine that numbed it and the medicine that made her loopy (which she did NOT take too well, she was hysterical and screaming that her throat was on fire...not a fun time to be the "tough" mommy)
Anyway, the surgeon found that the cut went right through a tendon and straight to the bone, so he stitched it up in 3 layers. It took about 20 stitches.
It still looks pretty rough at 1 month past, but with a regimine we hope to diminish that scar over the next year.
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