ER trip and operation | Photographe Vendée

(just before her operation) I was planning on blogging about the nice visit I had with my cousin and family, but that will have to come later. Thursday I got a call from the girls' school. Sami injured her toe nail during recess. Her teacher asked me if I could pick her up and bring her home. So since it didn't seem too serious I took my time and got there about 10 minutes after the call. All the kids were still in the school yard (strange) and 3 teachers were taking care of Sami and cleaning up the blood on the floor. There were a couple of kids that lifted a grid and one dropped it on Sami's toe. The nail was smashed and it was bloody -- one of the teachers told me to make an appointment with my dr. I could get an appointment until 8:15pm so I took Sami home and she blacked out from the pain and then come around and slept for 2 and a half hours. She was still in a lot of pain so around 6pm I took her straight to the dr's and sat in the waiting room and he took us. He looked at it for a minute or two and set up to the emrgency room. So ran home, got Alison and Leïla's stuff together and dropped them off at my in-laws. We got to the ER around 7:30pm. I had to carry her since she couldn't walk. We didn't have to wait that long and Sami was very calm about the whole thing. She got an x-ray done to make sure her toe wasn't broken, and we saw a surgen. He said he could help relieve her pain for the night but we would have to come back the next morning for an operation on the nail bedding. So they drilled two holes in her nail to get the underlaying blood out. She felt much better after that. We got home around midnight. The next morning we left at 7:30am. We got the paperwork done and went up the the Pedeatric floor. They were amazing. We had to wait until around 9:30 before they took us down to the OR. It was hard to let her go on her own but she seemed ok with it. The waiting was hard -- it was an hour long operation but she didn't get back to her room until noon. She was thirsty and hungry but she wasn't allowed to eat or drink yet. She wasn't in any pain which was good. We had to stay at the hospital until 5:30pm when she got a clean bill of health. We have to go back in 10 days and every 2-3 days a nurse will come to the house to change her bandages. This morning she couldn't walk and now is able to get around. She just has to be very careful not to bump her toe. So that was our excitement from the last 2 days.

(being silly -- she didn't seem scared, the only time she cried was when she had to get undressed, she didn't want to wear the hospital gown)

Playing in the hospital play room after her operation)