You can see Madelyn's "pretty" bruised smile.
Madelyn was her favorite character, Tinkerbell this year for Halloween. But we both wish she could fly and avert hurting herself. The Friday before Halloween, I got the dreaded school phone call, no parent ever wants to get. It just happened to be an early release day for my high school kids. Not ten minutes after all my students left, did Madelyn's school call. It was one of those moments of "oh no, this can't be good" and it wasn't. Maddie was walking across the room and in good Tosi fashion tripped and knocked over a little wooden chair. The chair is solid wood and is rounded out on every corner, except where the seat meets the back of the chair--the only straight edge on the chair. When Madelyn fell she landed on the edge and hit her upper gum line and split it open and cut her frenulem. The school said they could not stop the bleeding and I had to come pick her up. Poor baby I could hear her in the background. Needless to say, I made it to her school in record time to find my baby girl being held with a bloody towel and ice to her mouth. I wanted to cry harder than her. I took her over to the emergency room, where the doctor took one look and said that a pediatric trauma dentist would have to see her. We repacked her gum line and off we went to the dentist who was staying open late for us. The initial concern was to stop the bleeding by using something like
Dermabond for the gum line to help it clot. Because of the amount of swelling, the next concern was x-rays of the jawline to make sure she didn't have a fracture. What a praise that she had more bruising than anything else.
Unfortunately she had enough damage to her front right tooth, that she has killed the nerves and probably will have to have the tooth pulled. We followed up with the dentist and he wants to wait till March to make that call.
But Madelyn is a trooper and has made a full recovery and could not wait to don her Tinkerbell costume for the Little Gym Spooktacular.
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