The Kimballs: I was bound to happen...

Rebecca and I went to Chattanooga for the night to visit my sister, Denise, her husband, Rob, and their daughter, Mae. We had a wonderful time visiting with them and are so glad that they are now so close to us.

We went to the Children's Museum, went on a walk to see horses, went to the Pumpkin Patch playground and froze, and went to the Emergency Room. That's right, the emergency room. It was bound to happen sooner or later with the way Rebecca loves to climb and the fact that she is fearless. She is my Monkey Girl, after all.

She was playing on a bouncy horsey thingy, and just tipped over. She landed pretty hard on her head. A huge knot welled up and blood started to pour. Rebecca was of course screaming. Mae got scared in all of the commotion, so she started to cry. It was a mess.

After a little doctoring and a lot of cuddling, the blood and crying stopped. The knot was pretty scary. The cut was small, but looked deep.

We decided to not take any chances and took her to the emergency room.

After waiting what seemed like an eternity, the doctor walked in and said, "Is she acting normal?"

"Yes!"

"Well then she is going to be fine."

"Duh, but we are concerned about the cut."

"Oh, well let me take a look at that."

After a quick glance, he said he could glue her up and she would be as good as new.

The worse part of the ordeal, other than waiting forever in the ER, was putting the numbing medicine on Rebecca's cut. I had to hold a soaked cotton ball on the cut for 5-10 minutes, and not let it get anywhere else, especially her eye.

As most of you know, Rebecca hates being held down. She cried and cried and cried.

After about 5 minutes of her screaming, the doctor came back and said, "Why don't we just tape the cotton ball down to the cut."

Brilliant idea!

She was able to get down and play with Denise while her head was getting numb. (Thank you Denise for helping me to distract Rebecca during the whole ordeal.)

After another stint of waiting, the doctor and nurse came back in and "glued Humpty together again."

She is doing great now! Not once has she tried to touch the spot on her head! The glue is suppose to last 5 days and not get wet during that period. Then she will be good as new with just a small scar on her head.