Saturday was Aaron's little birthday party and Sunday we had an Angel's baseball game to go to with the family group from church and it was also Grandma Hawley's birthday so it was going to be a busy day. Sunday morning I had gotten the kids ready to go and was downstairs getting stuff together while Ad was upstairs finishing getting ready. I put Ashley in her booster seat at the table (we have a counter height table) and instead of putting her tray on the front like I normally do, I pushed her chair up against the table and put the cheerios on the table for her to eat while I got stuff together. I walked away for 1 minute and turned around to look at her just as she pushed off from the table and the entire chair fell backwards onto the tile floor. It was like watching a slow motion movie. I could not get to her in time to catch the chair but just watched the chair hit the ground as I ran over to her. I immediately unstrapped her and scooped her up in my arms while screaming for Adam to come downstairs. He came down, I told him what happened and he told me to get her to the hospital as quick as I could. Ash was screaming the entire way there, but I would rather have had her screaming than have her unconscious.
We got to the hospital in record time and I rushed her into the emergency room. Just as arrived in the waiting room and was trying to get the lady's attention who worked there, Ashley started vomiting all over the place. SCARY!!! I told the lady that she hit her head really hard and they moved pretty quickly after that. There were two ladies in the waiting room who were angels and handed me wipes to clean up Ashley and the other helped me fill out the paperwork until Adam arrived a few minutes later. They got us back almost immediately and the doctor came over to check her out. They did not seem overly concerned (totally laid back doctor) and said that they would observe her for a bit and also would order a CT scan. By this time Adam had gotten hold of my sister and she came over to pick up the boys. After some pretty strong medicine, Ashley was out of it enough to lay still for the CT scan. She was so drugged up that she just kept watching her hand open and close like it was the most fascinating thing in the world! The CT scan turned out to be fine and so after a few hours in the ER they let us go home. Needless to say, we did not make it to the baseball game that day! We just came home, let Ashley sleep, and checked on her about every 10 minutes to make sure she was ok.
Tuesday was better and she was back to her normal self. Smiling cheesy smiles for pictures and getting into everything she can crawl to. I still tear up just thinking about the situation, but I was an absolute MESS at the hospital. Thankfully Adam was there and able to keep me calm. I thank the LORD that she is ok!!
Ash cheesing it up for the camera. What a sweetie!
2 comments:
SO SCARY! Glad all is OK!
I had already read this, but it still takes my breath away...Praise God she is/was OK!
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