Trips

to Disneyland = 0
to Penticton's Emergency Room = 5

You'd think that the fact that I have a daughter that I would not know the inside of emerg (as a patient, because unfortunately I know it all to well because of work). She's a girl, and girls do not do things that lead to emerg. Or so I thought.

(I just noticed that the picture in our profile bears an image of her after her last trip to emerg.)
sigh
(yes, and disregard the black eye that she has in this picture)
now I'm sighing and shaking my head.

This morning, Sarah was running down the hall, and tried to navigate the corner into the kitchen, and BAM, fell flat on her face. I saw the whole thing happen, and the blood began to flow. Lots of blood. As we tried to wipe it away, we tried to look at where it was all coming from. I thought it was just a small case of bit tongue, but Travis uncovered the source, and it seemed like quite a deep cut on her tongue. So, we thought that it probably needed to be checked out. Travis took her in, and I stayed home with Ben on stand by to go in if she did in fact need stitches, and this time I would have taken the video camera in with me to capture the whole sedation/stoned scene. Because I'm such a loving parent. I would add that scene to the one that I took of her the other day rolling around on the floor having a fit. She's going to KNOW what she put me through. Anyways.... to make this not so long story even shorter because it's not about me, but my beautiful daughter, she came home WITHOUT any stitches (yay!) and Travis and I are being looked into by family services. Ok, just kidding about the last part, at least as far as I know, but she has been to emerg 5 times in the past 2.5 years, and that does seem to be a little much to me. I have this funny feeling that in her life, Sarah will be that crazy, brave, daring, or clumsy girl, the one with all the stories, who will point to any particular scar on her body and be able to tell you how she got it.

Let's just hope that there aren't too many stories to tell. It's starting to wear me out, and I repeat, she's only 2 and a half.