Over the past couple of weeks, I have gotten to make 2 emergency room visits. That's a lot. But, having 6 kids things can happen. However, in this case, both visits belonged to the same child. And, both incidents were more than a little strange.
Of course these things happened to Dani who seems to be able to trip over air generally speaking. But, these were more unusual accidents. The first one was a bicycle crash. She was riding too fast when her foot slipped off the pedal and slid into the front spokes while the bike was in motion. It still took a few seconds to stop turning. She managed a nasty looking cut and a bruise that is still causing her pain. Overall, not too bad all things considered.
Today, she managed to hit herself in the head with a 5 pound hand weight. She was exercising, clearly incorrectly, when she was no longer able to hold onto the handle and she dropped it onto her head. A short time later, she was complaining of blurry vision, dizziness, extreme sleepiness. So, once again off to the ER we went. She is one very blessed little girl. There is no fracture and no bleed. She has a concussion and will likely feel like mud for a few days but she should otherwise be fine.
Seriously, who is going to believe how she does these things to herself? This kid has had more breaks, accidents, leaps, slips, spills, etc than all 6 of the other kids combined. No way one child can be this accident prone. But, then I remember my childhood and I know she is my daughter.
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