I know I have promised a crafting blog... Bear with me... It has been pretty hectic lately, to say the least. A couple weeks ago.. I wanted to do a jewelry craft! I wanted to stamp metal, and make necklace charms! My super sweet husband, got out his tool box. He was trying to help me figure it out. We had some metal pieces, and these block letter things... So, he was trying to hammer letters into metal.. I went to the craft store (Michael's), looking for the right metal. Or maybe, to be steered in the right direction. While I was gone... Ruby my almost 3 year old, was wanting to sit in daddies lap.
So... things are going good, she's sitting with daddy. Ruby starts to fall off his lap. Before he could grab her... She fell... Her knee landed in the tool box. Being the medically trained Daddy he is! He checked her over. She had a spot of blood right below her knee. He gives her loves, cleans the ow-wee, puts neosporin on, band aide, icepack, and rock-a-byes. He is such an awesome Daddy!
I get home with no luck at the craft store. Ruby is whiny, and wants her Mommy. Ruby is such a Mommies girl! James tells me Ruby got an ow-wee. I thought he said, she hurt her face. I didn't notice anything. I thought she was just wanting Mommy..
Well.. We decided to go get some clothes for my girls. I swear all 3 of them, have gone threw a huge growth spurt... So to the mall we go! :) Daddy pushed Ruby in her stroller, while Gracie and I hold hands. We shopped... Picked up my oldest Lydia from the bus... and came home. I wanted Ruby to try on her new outfit. I noticed she wouldn't walk, and wouldn't put weight on her leg.
We went to urgent care. The doctor said, its a bad bruise, by the bone and to ice it. She tells us to go home, and put ice on it. She also adds in ... If it will make you feel better... We can do x rays. I told her, Please do! I know my baby girl! She wont... NOT... walk to me! So x rays are done, and the mood changes in the room. The doctor tells us to go to the Emergency Room, and that Ruby is going to need Emergency surgery tonight. Ruby has a piece of metal stuck deep in her bone, right below the knee. Its a one in a million chance, this could happen... Looking at her ow-wee.. You couldnt even tell. One spot of blood, barely any swelling... By this time...James feels so horrible. How was he to know though.. So off we go to the Emergency room.
They got us in a room right away.
~Daddy and Ruby~
~Her nurses and doctor were sooo sweet!~
Ruby was such a trooper! 3 tries for the IV, and no tears! They gave her heavy antibiotics threw IV. Thank goodness... I brought her Sissy's Nintendo Ds. It was a lifesaver! Her nurses covered her bandage with the Thomas the train sticker! Thomas the Train is her Favorite!!!!
~Ruby playing the ds one handed... Lol!~
Ruby showing off her Ow-wee's..
The ER Doctor was really awesome! He said there is no way we can just take it out here. She definatley needs surgery to get it out. He decided to call up her previous surgeon. (Ruby was born with club feet. When she was a baby, she went threw 7 cast changes, and a surgery to correct it. Now she wears a Dennis brown bar at night, its a brace for her feet) Okay back to the story.. Her previous surgeon wanted to do her surgery the next day.
So off to anouther hospital. We see her surgeon. He tells us.. This is such a fluke thing, and not to worry... She will be okay! He said, the piece of metal is jammed deep in her bone. He says, he is going to dig around the piece of metal to get it all out. He sadly informs us.... The Operating Room is booked full. He tells us, tomorrow he will squeeze us in...
I snuggled up and held Ruby. She was not comfortable... At night she whimpered in her sleep. It was so hard~ When they say, being a parent is the hardest job there is... They couldnt be more right. James was blaming himself, for having the toolbox in the house. It was all pretty difficult..
So the next day came.. The pictures tell the story...
~Grandma Lorna and Ruby Mae~
Ruby getting Loves from Grandma Lorna, Before surgery!
~Grandma Cher and Ruby Mae~
Grandma Cher and Ruby were playing Mario cart on the ds, before surgery.
~Auntie Treena and Gracie Jean~
Auntie Treena loving on Gracie.
~Mommy and Ruby waiting in the pre-op room~
~The Anesthesiologist taking Ruby to the operating room~
It was the same anesthesiologist who did her 1st surgery.. They gave Ruby, Versed before they took her from me. It relaxed her, so she wouldn't be screaming leaving my arms. They also wrapped her up in a warm blanket... :) ~
~Daddy and Gracie playing tea party with the stuffed animals, the hospital gave us. While waiting for Ruby to get out of surgery.~
~Gracie waiting for Ruby to wake up from the anesthesia~
~Gracie is getting impatient. Wanting her sissy to wake up.~
~Sleepy Ruby Tuesday~
~Ruby woke up, and wanted her Mommy! It was the best feeling ever!!!!
Gracie took this picture! She did such a good job!~
Ruby is doing so much better! Its been a little over 2 weeks. She still favors her leg some.. All in all, she is good though... Her doctor is going to do x rays in a year. To check the bone to see if it has healed properly and growing properly.
Here is a picture of Ruby in her Dennis Brown Bar Shoes. She is also holding her Favorite dolly, Julie. Julie is wearing, Ruby's old pair of Dennis Brown Bar Shoes. Ruby had worn those shoes when she was a baby. Its also an incentive tool! Lol! Ruby has to wear her shoes and bar still at night. She now Loves to wear them, since her dolly wears them too! Its funny... The shoes fit Ruby's doll, just like they did Ruby when she was a baby!
Im ending this blog with a saying I hold on too!
"Life is not waiting for the storm to pass, Its learning how to dance in the rain"
~Ruby took this picture of me, while I was trying to grab the camera from her~
~Daddy and his baby girl!~
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Blessings to all!~
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