I am pretty sure if there is a dumb mommy of the year award
that I would at the very least qualify for a nomination.
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| Taken about 3 weeks ago-before the cranky set in. |
My mom came to visit for Easter and she stayed all last
week. Whenever she comes we take a trip to Meijer as it is something she misses
living in Georgia.
Since last week was pay week, that also meant grocery week and a trip to
Meijer.
On Wednesday morning, we all got up and ready for our
shopping trip. Jonathan was a bit cranky, but I figured he would be better once
we got moving. We ate at a restaurant right up the road that does Mickey Mouse
shaped pancakes first (and yes the 1st time we went there I did
think I was special and that no way did everyone get the cool pancakes).
We started out and Jonathan was fussy. We switched him to my
cart (we each had our own) since he kept reaching for me and I gave him my car
keys. This lasted all of about 10 seconds. I ended up with Jonathan sitting on
the shopping cart handle while I pushed and looked at my list over his
shoulder.
His cranky factor ratcheted up a notch and I gave him the
pen I was using since he was throwing a fit and Mom and I discussed leaving and
then I would come back when he was napping to finish up. I sat him in the
actual cart seat so I could get something that took both hands and when I
turned back to the cart he was reaching towards me. Before I knew it, his hand
with the pen in it was scraping across my face, and into my nose so far and
hard I heard a pop. I pulled the pen and his hand away from my face trying to
minimize the damage.
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| The evil culprit! |
Within 1/10 of a second I felt the gushing start. If you are
weak stomached skip to the last paragraph. I started bleeding like he had
broken my nose. I pressed my nostrils together and my eyes were watering so
hard I couldn’t see. My mom asked what happened and after yelling I needed
paper towels (luckily I was already purchasing some) I told her while she
ripped the plastic from the rolls in the cart and handed me a wad. She told me
to tip my head back and I choked. I went through the first wad like it was
tissue paper and got a second one.
I kept waiting for it to clot or slow down and then
remembered I take aspirin to thin my blood a little every day to try and dissuade
the formation of more clots. So the one thing I needed was the one thing that I
feared most any other day of the week. After Mom gave me the fourth wad of
towels I decided that maybe we should just pay for what was in our carts and go
home.
We came home and she brought most of the stuff in after we
brought in Jonathan and I went straight to the bathroom. I coughed up mouthfuls
of blood and kept pressure on it for several hours. I guzzled water and chewed
gum to rid my mouth of the flavor. It did stop after about 3 hours so that it
was just a drip down the back of my throat. Gross I know, but at least it wasn't you.....
The next morning the drip was still there so I called the
Dr. She got me in right away and I found out that he had taken a chunk out of
the flesh where my nostril cavity started in the skull. I had a little bit of a
black eye and the right side of my face was swollen. I was given antibiotics
and a tetanus shot (which is still red, swollen and fevered) and told not to
blow my nose or take my aspirin until at least Monday and to come back in 2
weeks for a check up…….and if it didn’t stop by Fri am then I was going to have
to get it cauterized-UGH! Thank goodness it stopped. I am almost back to
normal, but my face still hurts and I feel like I have some serious sinus
pressure going on.
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