Father's Day Part 2

Part 2 of Father's Day was definitely not as fun as Part 1. Part 2 starts with the kids jumping off of everything at the park and having a great time! All of a sudden, Chloe jumps down and starts screaming. And then I see the blood. She had bitten down on her tongue as she came down. I got her out of the park as fast as I could and saw my friend, Wendy, who happened to have a few Kleenex on her and I quickly put them on Chloe's tongue to stop the bleeding. We went into the bathroom and got some wet paper towels for her to put in her mouth. The bleeding was a lot at first but then stopped pretty quickly and we thought things were going to be okay. I looked at the cut and it looked like any other mouth cut. Fast forward to a little while later when we are back at home hanging out and Chloe starts screaming that it hurts to swallow. We look at the cut again and now see how deep and big it actually is. I do a little research on WebMD and it says that MOST tongue cuts will heal on their own, but if it's really deep, it will need stitches. So, we decide that Chris will take her to the ER while I stay home with Caiden. I would have made things way worse at the hospital as I don't deal with that kind of thing very well. At first the Dr. debates about putting stitches on her tongue, but in the end decides that the cut is just too deep to let it heal on it's own. Without the stitches, it may heal, but there could be a lot of scar tissue and could affect her speech forever.I also read that the tongue doesn't get infected that often, but if it does, it's very serious. So, better safe than sorry. But in order to do the stitches, they have to sedate her which includes putting an IV in...YUCK. But they numbed her arm first so the poke didn't hurt all that much. She was such a big girl and handled everything very well with no crying! She got 2 stitches to sew the cut together and it looks SO much better than it did. This morning, it was really swollen and she was drooling everywhere and she was in some pain, but with some ibuprofen, she quickly felt better and even decided to go to swimming lessons and had a fun time! We are so thankful that a cut on the tongue is all that happened....it could have always been way worse! Thanks for all of the prayers and good thoughts that you all sent out way during the scary parts!

This is what caused the tongue mishap:

This is the tongue after the stitches....it looks SO much better than it did!