Madelyn

Well, Tuesday was starting off to be a crazy day. What day isn't crazy in my house? Anyway, Matt took the day off from work because we were getting our dog spayed. She had to be there around 7:30 so he took her to the vet, I got Emily, myself, and Ben ready to go. Emily was going to school, Me to work and Ben was going to Bible Study with my mom to play with his best friend Brett, while Matt stayed home with Connor and Maddy. I talked to Matt a couple of times and he took Ben to Pre-K I called as he was pulling into the driveway from dropping Ben off, I called about something stupid I saw on the Internet and then I hear this screaming wail. Matt said Madelyn fell out of the car, we hung up and I sat there with a sick feeling in my stomach. I almost left work, almost. I called right back and he said she was crying but seemed to be ok. She walked up to the porch on her own and had a bump but was ok. So after work I went to vote, then I ran home quick and Madelyn was asleep on the couch, which for Madelyn is a little odd, if there is any sort of activity going on in our house she is in the midst of it. Connor was watching Toy Story and she just fell asleep. I chalked it up to her just being tired from the day before. So I left, picked up Ben from school and went to the grocery. We got a couple of things and as we were pulling out I called Matt to check on Maddy, he said she was awake but crying that her head hurt. He had just called my Mom (she is an RN) and she said if her pupils are equal and responsive she should be ok. By this time I am a little worried that her head still hurts, but I was on my way home and I figured once I got there she would be ok, because I had yet to be around her since she fell. Sometimes a kid just needs their Mommy! I literally was right around the corner when Matt called my cell, Madelyn just threw up everywhere, my heart dropped...this is not good at all. I raced around the corner, told Ben to get out of the car quick, we ran inside and sure enough she threw up everywhere and was bawling. My mom was on her way and we needed to get to the ER immediately. I threw Ben's sweat pants and a sweatshirt on her and raced (really fast) to the hospital. My best friends husband is a surgeon, a very good one, and I called her and told her we were on our way to the ER and asked if she could page Jeff to meet us there. We got there and got her into the ER and of course they have to do stupid stuff like take her temp. Now I ask you if her brain is bleeding who the hell cares what her temp is? And for those of you who know Maddy, she is a very will full child, and it took two nurses, me and Matt to hold her down to get her temp under her arm. Yes four of us, and I'm looking at the nurse going how bad do you really need this because she is going to have an aneurysm from fighting us off. Anyway we go back to a room and wait...I'm sitting there thinking of all the articles I have read about kids hitting their heads and having to have surgery to relieve the pressure, all the hospital shows I have watched, at this point it doesn't matter if it was true or not. I am holding my baby girl, who is just laying there with her eyes half closed wondering if our whole world had just changed. She continued to throw up which I took as a bad sign, the ER doctor came in and said they were going to do a CAT scan and get her some medicine. Jeff showed up and checked her out and went to check something. Now I am sitting there, having gotten a CAT Scan once, wondering how in the hell this child who 45 minutes before had to have 4 adults hold her down to get her temp was going to lie still in a big machine by herself. Luckily Jeff knows Maddy and her determination not to do anything that she doesn't want to do, and got her in with the nice new CAT Scan machine that you don't have to hold perfectly still for. So they finally take us back to radiology and I got to stay in the room with her, it only took us 10 minutes to pry her off of my body and onto the board, I also told her we would get her 10 barbies, but I am pretty sure she heard nothing over the high pitch screams that were echoing throughout the room. I basically laid on her and we talked about Disney World (her favorite place) and the rides there. For starting out the way she did, she laid still and did a really good job. The Techs were telling her how good she did and in reply she gave them what could only be described as the look of death. We walked back to our room where they were cutting a guys knee open, I pretty much almost passed out, the doctor said we could go to a different room (thanks doc) so they put us into a room with a television, thank goodness for Elmo! Maddy laid there watching Elmo, and I sat there staring at my baby I couldn't even consider the possibilities of what could happen. Finally I hear Jeff walking down the hallway, he comes in and says that everything looks really good, no bleeding in her head. The relief that swept through my body was unexplainable. We had to wait for the ER doctor to come in and give her some medicine to help with the puking and dismissal papers then we could go. Finally she started to talk and said she wanted to go home, we got home and her brothers and sister and g'ma and aunt and uncle were all waiting on the porch for her. She got really excited and told them about the cool machine she got to go into and the cool tv she got to watch and Jeff came to see her and she just kept talking about everything. We ordered pizza and watched Cars and everything was back to normal, well as normal as they can get in our house! I pray everyday for my kids, that they will stay safe and nothing bad would happen to them. I love my kids more than anything and can't imagine my life without one of them. They are my greatest gift. (I did this in purple because it is Maddy's favorite color!)