The Story

We were waiting to hear back to see if she would need surgery. We are still waiting to hear from the radiologist. Probably not is what we have so far.

Oh, and the picture, totally taken before the "incident".

We were getting ready to go to my parents very good friends daughters wedding reception. Did anyone follow that? I had just changed Tess's dress and finished her hair and asked her to go and get in the car. Our kids bathroom is at the top of our stairs and you can see all the way down the stairs to the living room from the bathroom. I was trying to finish curling Amelia's hair and I looked over to see Tess walk off the top stair and do two cartwheels down the stairs and land on her nose. I threw the flat iron down, said a bad word and ran. You know how those moments are always slow motion? Mine was. She stopped on the landing and IMMEDIATELY blood came gushing. It took a good twenty minutes to stop. Poor girl. She was the most worried about her dress. Don't worry, all of the blood came out. For the rest of the night every time she cried, her nose bled. It looked swollen and crooked but no black eyes. Until today. Today they have purplish lines underneath.

Anyways, I always hate taking them to the doctor for things like this. When Amelia was a baby, she was learning to crawl and both my husband and I thought the other one was watching her and she fell down our stairs. I freaked out and ran her to the doctor where they proceeded to grill us about her falling and basically accused me of hurting her. Yeah, if I had intentionally hurt her, wouldn't I have hid it vs. going to make sure I hadn't permanently hurt my baby? I know they are doing their job, but still, it makes you cringe when you know the only time you have EVER spanked your kid is when they were running into the street because an 18-month really can't process that they will get squished by a car but they can process that mommy will swat their little behind if they go in the street again. But, I digress. Since then, I am a little gun shy.

Our pediatrician was wonderful though. He has seven kids of his own and he knows that things like this happen. I did express my concern because this is happening way too often. She falls at least six times a day...sometimes more, rarely less. So we have to do some detective work to figure out if something is really wrong or if she is just our family's "Accident Annie".

Monday we start with the eye doctor.

If that doesn't work, then we go to the Ear, Nose and Throat specialist.

If that doesn't give us any answers, then we head to the neurologist.

I am hoping that she just needs some glasses.