Calgon!! Take me AWAY!!

It has been a rotten couple of days… First of all we were SUPPOSED to have the hot tub deck done by today so we could get started on digging the postholes for our patio deck. As of right now we are a day behind and tomorrow hubby goes back to work. The reason we are behind is because baby was seriously hurt yesterday. My son Alex and son in law, Stephen, were removing the old patio blocks from the spot that our new patio deck is going to be put. Baby had snuck back outside without me catching her and suddenly I heard a bloodcurdling scream from Alex… MOM!!!! (image placeholder) I threw the stuff in my hands down and came running. He ran into the kitchen with baby in his arms and blood everywhere. Alex is my big, strong 16 yr old son and baby is Miranda, our 2-½ yr old daughter. Hubby came running in the door behind Alex, the scream was so loud he heard it over the noise of the drill he was using. I saw blood all over and quickly realized it was her big toe, a patio block fell on it and the toe nail was just hanging and there were cuts all around her toe. I wrapped it in a towel and headed to the car. I got in and held baby, something I NEVER do in the car. She always sits in her car seat. She was screaming and crying and kicking her feet. (image placeholder) She had blood all over my shirt and pants and her dad’s face. We got to the emergency room and the nurses tried to get it cleaned off. Baby wouldn’t let anyone look at it, she just kept saying she wanted a band-aid and to go home. In his wisdom hubby had grabbed a Dora band-aid before we left the house and he kept telling her the Dr’s were just looking for a bigger band-aid. The Dr finally got a look at her toe and said he needed to call the Orthopedic Dr in to look at it. We got an x-ray… Yep… It was broke, as well as cut all over and needing stitches. Baby finally calmed down in my arms and fell asleep, I am sure just from pure exhaustion. The Ortho Dr showed up, said it needed surgery, no way could they fix it with her awake so down to surgery we went. They took her in and we waited for about 90 minutes… Finally the Dr came in and said she was all sewed up and in a cast from the top of her foot to the top of her thigh. She has to wear it for at least 2 weeks and then we go in and get it checked. Her toenail is gone, but hopefully it will grow back and there won’t be any lasting damage. When we saw her she was still very groggy, but Hubby leaned over and put that Dora band-aid that we had carried all thru the hospital on the cast over her hurt toe (image placeholder) picked her up and we left… She is on antibiotics, pain medication and bed rest… So she has spent the day lying in our king sized bed watching the 'toons. And guess what? The satellite glitched, the 'toons went off and baby got off our big bed, walked to the door and was captured coming out into the hallway by her big sister! I knew she wouldn’t stay down long (image placeholder) Soooo, I wrote another book as my daughter Catie would say,,, but really that was a very scary afternoon and evening for mom and dad and I never want to have another one of those! I sure hope YOUR day has been better (image placeholder)