In Stitches!

So Friday I left for a doctors appt. and left the kids with Terryl since he has the day off.  I had my day pretty much planned out, which included a date night with Terryl.  So while waiting for someone to take my blood Terryl calls.  He told me that they had a little incident with Maddie.  At some point Terryl was in the bathroom getting ready, he heard Maddie cry, which isn't an oddity in our house, so he didn't rush to the scream.  But soon Maddie found him, with a mouth full of blood.  Blood isn't Terryl's favorite thing to see, so he was a little freaked out by the sight.  After getting her cleaned up he could tell it was her gum that was bleeding.  But she was not crying anymore and seemed fine.  I was sure that Caleb had grabbed her face some how and scratched her gums.  Any small scratch in the mouth can bleed like no other. 
So when I got home it had been a few hours since the "incident" and Maddie was her usual self, and seemed fine.  I had her smile for me so I could see her gums.  Her left side, above her front tooth was pretty swollen and looked pretty beat up.  I decided that Caleb probably couldn't have done that much damage.  But not looking to terrible and since she was acting fine, I didn't think much of it after seeing it.  So a few hours later, I was going to go to a store and pick up a baby shower gift for the next day.  I decide to look at her mouth one more time.  So this time I had her lay down and I started to touch the gum.  I didn't want to push to hard and cause her pain, so I gently started to push on the gum, and it started to slide up, and up and up.  Her gum was moving a little to much for my taste.  So I took her to insta care which I thought they could look at her.  A MA came and looked at her and said she should probably go to the ER, because if they need to stitch it up they would have to give her something to sedate her.  So...away we went to Primary Children's Hospital.  While waiting, Maddie was running around the room with Elmo and happy as could be. She was happy to see anyone come through the door and gave any nurse or doctor a big hug and checked their ID. ( O :  She was being so pleasant.  So fast forward  several hours and they decide they better put a stitch in to hold it still.  So they gave her this stuff through the nose to make her  loopy and help her to not remember.  She was pretty funny on that stuff I have to say.  So once she was "out of it" and was still the doctor and I were able to really take a look at the gum.  Well at that point I was SUPER glad I had taken her in.  The whole section above her left front tooth was detached except for the very top under the lip.  It was gross and pretty amazing to see that it was detached like that.  It would have never healed on its own.  So Miss Maddie got three stitches in her gums and she was a trooper!  She never once cried and really had no idea what was going on.

Once they gave us the O.K. to leave and she was a little more alert we left.  I carried her since she was still loopy and I knew that she couldn't really walk.  But Maddie didn't get that.  So after hours of doctors looking at her mouth and stitches and not one tear, she proceeded to scream for 45 min. on the way home because I didn't let her walk to the car!  That's my girl. ( O :  She did calm down at we got closer to home and she realized that she was going to get her new favorite treat, french fries from McDonald's. 

So Maddie is still doing great, she really has no idea she was every really hurt except for the moment it all happened.  We still don't know what she hit, but  whatever it was it did a lot of damage, and postponed our date night. ( o :  Such is life if you have kids.