My poor kid

My kiddo fell yesterday. Hurt herself pretty good, scared the piss out of me. We were at the laundromat washing sleeping bags and I had just taken then out of the washer and had em all draped over me getting ready to carry them home and hang em to dry.... well graceful kid decided to take the stairs instead of go the way I went... and she tripped and fell. Fece first down 4 concrete stairs. I dropped what I was holding and ran and scooped her up (which was prolly the wrong thing to do but the mommy in me needed to hold her) anyway... she screamed of course and her whole face was covered in blood, so I just took off carrying her all the way to our apt. By the time we got up our 3 flights of stairs I too was covered in blood. I can only imagine what my neighbors thought about me carrying this bleeding screaming kid running through the parking lot.

Anyway, got her home and in the bathroom, calmed her down a little, put her hair back and proceeded to clean her face off with a cold rag. After I got all the blood off, I could see what happened. She has literally just peeled all the skin off the top of her nose, scraped the tip of her nose, busted the corner of her mouth, scraped her cheek by the corner of her mouth, scraped her forehead and has 3 scrapes on her left cheek along with a pretty hefty bruise running along her cheekbone. She literally looks like someone beat the hell out of her.

I cleaned it all off, I couldnt bring myself to peroxide it but I cleaned it with soapy water and put some neosporin on it all and a band-aid on her nose... and oh yeah her leg too, she scraped her knee as well. But I rented Happy Feet and got her to sit next to me on the couch for an hour or more holding an ice pack on her cheek cause it was swollen. She woke up prolly 10 times last night but this morning she loks a lot better. I was worried that it would swell overnight but it didn't at all. I gave her a little ibuprofen before bed to help keep down the swelling though. It's all scabbed today and the skin around the sores aren't red so I think I got them cleaned well. And it doesn't seem to hurt as bad today, she even let me take a q-tip and retreive a piece of cat hair off her nose earlier without any tears.

Scared the hell out of me though. I thought she'd broken her nose or cheekbone, but it all seems like it'll be alright.

*sigh*

Then Seans mom tells me today that she fell in the tub yesterday morning. Clumsy Durkins!