Last night, right after 12:30 am, Carolyn started screaming bloody murder.
I was in a stupor due to the fact that I'd just fallen asleep (had to stay up to watch the end of the Baylor/TCU game...who'd've ever thought I'd root for Baylor?!).
Husband graciously rolled out of bed to help her with whatever it was she was screaming about.
When the screaming didn't stop, I thought, "Oh, good grief! Just give her her pacifier and lay her back down! She'll go straight back to sleep!"
And then I marched right in that room in the dark and started sweeping her crib in hopes of finding the paci without having to look under the crib.
Then I noticed a dark stain on her sheets.
I ran my hand through it, wondering what she'd eaten that would cause a vomit stain that dark.
I wandered into the bathroom and flicked on the light.
My hand was covered in blood.
Carolyn was coughing copiously at that point and naturally, I freaked right out.
She's coughing up blood! Husband! She's coughing up blood! We have to go to the ER NOW.
The blood seemed to be everywhere.
All over her sheets, blanket, pillow, shirt, face, Husband's chest.
In two places in her crib, there were actual pools of blood.
After point two seconds of trying to figure out how to get Carolyn to spit out the blood instead of swallowing it, I fetched a cup of milk to wash her mouth out.
The coughing stopped.
Carolyn started to shake.
And then I saw her tongue.
Man, oh, man, she'd crunched it.
To me, it looked like she'd bitten all the way though it on the right side.
Since when does a tongue (even one with a piece bitten off of it) bleed THAT MUCH?
We finished washing out her mouth, changed her sheets, washed her face, dosed her up on Advil for good measure, and by that time, she was wandering around, acting normal, and completely thrilled with her opportunity to be out of bed at that hour.
This morning, her tongue is quite swollen, but she doesn't seem to mind at all.
I guess the only thing left for me to do is attempt to remove blood stains from all of her stuff...
2 comments:
Hydrogen Peroxide gets out blood. I also use it for bodily stains that seep out of diapers. Just thought I'd pass that along, it's a wonderful thing.
That is super scary! That sort of happened to us...but she was teething and had bitten through the little bit of extra skin keeping that front tooth in. She was biting on her sheets while chilling in the crib and it was EVERYWHERE!! Thanks for the tip Mary!
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