Emergent issues

In the last month, we've had way too many emergency health needs.

One month ago, our friends Jesse and Marie were over with their kids Yannick and Sasha. All the kids were playing in the play set in our backyard. While Sam was trying to pull open the door on the bottom of the play set, which was secured by a strong magnet, Sylvie helped by pushing from the inside. The door opened too fast and hit Sam in the mouth. He split his upper lip and we had to go to Children's Hospital for three stitches, and sedation. It was very upsetting for all involved. Now, a month later, I can report that his lip is as good as new. But in the moment, it was so very stressful. This is a picture of a very sad boy. 

As if that weren't enough, at First Friday in downtown Golden last week, Sylvie tripped on the sidewalk and fell, hard. She hit her mouth and teeth in the fall, and there was a lot of blood. Kyle wasn't there, so I looked in her mouth as best I could to find the source of the blood, and figured out it was coming from an abrasion on her upper lip and her gums. Her front teeth were loose. 

She went to bed that night with a fat lip, and we were both traumatized. I got in touch with the on-call dentist, and they talked me of the ledge, assuring me that this kind of thing happens all the time and that she was going to be OK. The next day, we went to the dentist (on a Saturday of a holiday weekend) and they did an x-Ray, confirming that all her bones were unbroken, and that her adult teeth were safe and sound. But, when the dentist was checking to see how lose her teeth were, the looser one just popped right out! This startled Sylvie and all of us, but I felt a hundred times better knowing that the tooth's roots had been resorbed and the tooth was getting ready to go on its own. We had just hastened the process. Now she's feeling proud that she has lost a tooth, and the visit from the tooth fairy was well-received too. Here she is now, happy, with the dental trauma behind her. 

I've been scarred by all these injuries, and have started to see tragedy around every slippery corner, in every trampoline, on every bike, and past every flip-flip wearing foot. I will ease up, but for now I'm just hoping for a long period with no serious hurts.