The "Too Eventful" Day

Sunday started by seeing this hot air balloon being deflated in a corner of our church's lawn when we got to church ... Kind of neat.

(Day 234 of 365)

Afterward, when we were back home and getting ready to get lunch made, Josh and I were talking in the kitchen. In fact, we were all in the kitchen except for S, when all of a sudden, there was an awful scream and cry that didn't stop. We rushed into the living room to find S screaming and crying with a mouth FULL of blood.

My kids have hurt their mouths before, and I know cuts in the mouth and on the head bleed a lot, but this was the most blood I've ever seen in one of the kids' mouths before. At first we couldn't tell where all the blood was coming from because there was so much, but finally, we got the blood to stop.

S's gums on his top front teeth got pushed up a bit and it seems that the gums above those teeth are what was bleeding. We tried to put some ice on them and gave S some Tylenol. There didn't seem to be anything that was an open cut though or anything to warrant stitches.

The story we finally got out of S was that he was running and somehow fell and hit the piano bench, apparently with his mouth.

E's memorable quote amidst all this was, "That's why God gave us extra blood!"

After lunch we all went to Josh's work with him. The kids watched a Diego DVD on the projection screen in one of the rooms while Josh worked in his office and I helped him by going around the building hooking up computers to the network and upgrading the memory in them. (Josh told me and showed me exactly what to do; otherwise I wouldn't have had a clue.) I finished upgrading the memory in all but 6 computers that needed it. When the kids' movie was done, they helped Josh with some stuff, too. We were there all afternoon.

As a thank you to the kids and me for all the help they'd been to him at work this summer and I'd done that day, Josh decided we should all go out to Culver's for supper. We didn't get any custard there though because after eating we headed over to the kids' school for the annual start-of-the-school year ice cream social where the school kids take all their school supplies to their classrooms and get their stuff put away so they don't have to do it the first day of school and then have ice cream.

When we got to the school, Josh went upstairs with J and G to help them in their classrooms, E went by herself (downstairs), and I went with F and S to their classrooms (downstairs). After helping F and S, we headed over to E's room to see how she was doing. She told me she needed a band-aid for her toe, and when I looked down at it, she had blood all over her toe and sandal! She'd cut her toe on the door when she tried to hold it open with her foot. I guess she thought she had too much extra blood, too!

I took E into the office and got out the first-aid kit and washed and bandaged her toe and asked her why she didn't come find me. She said she'd tried, but she didn't see me in either F's or S's rooms, so she went back to her own?!?! I asked her why she didn't tell Mr. B (her teacher), but she didn't want to ... so instead, she let her toe continue to bleed freely while she put her books in her desk! I'm surprised she wasn't crying or panicking since she'd taken a nice chunk of skin off. At any rate, I got her bandaged up, and we went back into her classroom where she could finish arranging her things before we headed to the gym for ice cream.

While we were having ice cream, Josh mentioned (which I had forgotten) that one of the other moms was a dental hygenist and that maybe I could ask her about S's mouth and teeth. I explained to her what had happened, and she looked at S's mouth.

One of his top front teeth is a little bit loose, but she said that we should only give him soft foods for 2 weeks to let the tooth rest and get firmly reattached. If it starts to change colors, then we should take him to the dentist. She said his gums will grow back fine but it will take a while, maybe a month, give him Tylenol for a couple of days, and lots of cold, soft, foods.

Now that it's a day later, looking at S, you can't tell that anything happened. He maybe has a slight bluish tinge to his skin between his nose and mouth, but if so, it's very faint. You can't see anything out of the ordinary when he talks or smiles either, but if you lift up his upper lip, you can see more of his 2 top front teeth than before, and the gums above them are practically black from all of the blood and bruising. I could take a picture, but it makes me cringe and hurt for him just thinking about what it looks like. Thankfully it doesn't seem to be hurting him though, so that's good. I pray he heals quickly and doesn't have any lasting effects.

Dear God, could I please order some very boring, uneventful, non-bloody days for a while?!