***WARNING GRAPHIC PICTURES INCLUDED!!***
Accidents DO happen and this is something I
have had to realise really quickly in the Motherhood department, I can’t wrap
my children in cotton wool all their lives.
You may have noticed recently I have been
out of action and this is due to my daughter having an accident. It was not in
my care so I am just going off what her Dad and of course her have told me!
My petal with a sore wing
Going back two weeks, Hayley was just being
a kid and fell out of a tree. I was coming home from a weekend at my Mum’s
house when I got THAT phone call.
H’s Dad: Don’t panic..
Me: OF COURSE I WILL PANIC, IS HAYLEY OK?
H’s Dad: We are in the ambulance as we
speak..
Me: TELL ME WHAT HAPPENED NOWWWW (Ok maybe
a few naughty words in there).
H’s Dad;
Hayley fell out of a tree
Thinking to myself- oh maybe a broken bone
Me; Yeah?!
H’s Dad: She impaled herself and has quite
a big gash under her arm.
Me; (panicking) Ok on my way to meet you
there.
So what happen is Hayley was climbing down
from a tree and lost her footing, falling down onto a broken branch and impaling
herself. Instead of hanging there she has then tried to pull herself off and
tore all layers of her skin. This is something
you would honestly only read about in magazines, a real freak accidnet.
I couldn't take a detailed photo and this was as good as I could get without passing out!
As soon as I heard my daughter was hurt I
was in hysterics and very inconsolable. If anything I felt I had let her down
by not being there to protect her as she was with her Father- we are not
together (but I will cover that in another post).
I raced as fast as I could to meet my
little girl in the hospital, and as soon as I got there I realilsed she was in
a very comfortable state as the ambulance had her on the green stick- almost
like morphine.
My petal in a very comfy state
As soon as I walked in Hayley said to me;
“Please don’t be angry at Dad it was an accident”!
I swear to the heavens above this girls
thinks about EVERYONE except herself at the best of times; she has been on this
planet before.
The Royal Children’s Hospital had no beds
available and it was around 8pm when we got out, the accident happened around
2pm. So they covered and cleaned the
wound and sent us on our way.
For me, this meant a very sleepless night
and a little girl who would not ever leave her Mother’s sight- it got to the
point I followed her to the toilet to make sure she was ok.
My little girl after surgery and in high spirits.
The next day we had to go back to the
hospital where Hayley would go into surgery to have this wound properly cleaned
and all stitched up.
The wait time was nothing at all and they
rushed Hayley through, as they felt bad for sending her home the night before
in the condition she was in. This is also where I had to watch my baby go under
an anaesthetic. I know this had to be
done but I was in tears that she had to go through what she was going through.
Again she is soo far from selfish, the last
words she said was “ I love you
Mum”.
What the wound looked like after surgery.
Recovery was slow, it took 2 weeks in fact
before she was able to go back to school- but this Monday just gone was her
first day back.
Once the dressing was off.
Hayley stopped me in my tracks and had me
running to the toilet to bawl my eyes out, as I HAD to be strong for her and
couldn’t show my pain and sorrow in front of her. The most beautiful words left
her mouth: “Mum. I am glad this happened to me and not you, as I would never
want you to feel this kind of pain. It hurts soo bad!!”
Lessons learnt, I have now found out that
no matter what kids will be kids and accidents happen- end of story!!
