Whoever thinks that mommyhood is boring and mundane needs to come spend a week in my shoes. Last night our family ended up taking our 3rd child to the emergency room for the second time in her short 6 years. The first time was to get stitches on her face after she ungracefully descended the top bunk as a spunky 2 year old. Well last night my oldest thought it was a good idea to do a hand stand and have little sister catch her feet. Now I know that many things do not enter into the thoughts of a child, but for some reason I thought a 10 year old would recognize this as not a quality decision. Even in a perfect world the ten year old out weighs the six year old at least 2 to 1, so how can this idea ever turn out okay?
Well this ill conceived idea turned into a major collision with big sister knocking little sister to the hard floor and landing on top of her where she slammed her head. After the tears stopped Lyle was talking with her and realized that she was having trouble seeing. He brought her over to me and as I was standing right next to him talking to her, her eyes were searching all over and she couldn't find me! Mommy entered into "extreme- problematic-situation" mode and I got on the phone to call our doctor and we shortly headed to the ER. On our short commute to the hospital she threw up, another symptom of a very bad thing. Lyle and I started activating the prayer warriors in our life and gave them a call to action- Please pray for Shayna, that there would be complete healing and NO DAMAGE!
As we checked in at the ER she still seemed to be having a little trouble seeing, but if I got close enough to her, she could see me. We were quickly seen by a nurse and then taken back to wait for the doctor. By the time the doctor came in and checked her vision she was seeing fine, even from across the room- Thank you JESUS! She had a cat scan done to check for any cracking of the skull or bleeding. She was very brave during the scan. On the wheelchair ride back to the room she threw up again. They gave her medication to help with the nausea, but it didn't seem to help. While we waited for the results we kept our prayer warriors and family updated and our other three children were as good as gold, even though it was an hour past their bed time.
After about half an hour the nurse came in with the discharge papers! The scan showed no bleeding and no fracture, there was NO DAMAGE! They were not happy that she was still throwing up, but as long as it didn't get worse and no other symptoms showed up we were free to go. With a new found thankfulness and an overwhelming consciousness of the Goodness of God I bundled my family up to take us all home to sleep in our own beds.
Shayna slept on the floor of our room. She woke up three times sick to her stomach, but was able to go right back to sleep. Then at 7:30 this morning she woke up happy and perky. (normal waking time is 8:30 and usually later when we get to bed late) So I helped her to the bathroom and encouraged her to go back to sleep. Well she never did, and even said she was done sleeping and ready for breakfast! When I asked her if her head hurt, she said no. She's had oatmeal for breakfast and is feeling great! So after the whole ordeal yesterday she doesn't even have a headache! God is so good! And I stand amazed that when my mommy skills can't fix a problem, He is so faithful to take care of me. I just want to publicly say thank you to all the prayer warriors who faithfully lifted up my darling daughter to the Heavenly Healer, and to Jesus who paid the price for us to have complete healing- THANK YOU, it sounds so inadequate, but THANK YOU!
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