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[danuv]

Isadora is fine. Well not quite fine, she has a skull fracture and some air showed up on both of the cat scans she had. Supposedly this is not abnormal for a bad bonk on the head. After they found the skull fracture in the first cat scan at the ER that Tomas took her to they decided to have her transfered to a children's hospital. Tomas' mom picked me up, took me there and took Rhiannon home with her to spend the night. After quite a few hours of waiting, Isadora and I had a bouncy ride in an ambulance. I think that was the scariest part of the whole ordeal for her though she was not thrilled when they put the iv in her arm. We expected to be kept overnight for observation at the children's hospital but it seems that they got swarmed and we kept being put off. Sometime early in the morning one of their top neurologists came in, checked her out and said that we didn't need another cat scan and if she kept her breakfast down we'd be able to leave around noon. Great except that he forgot to let anyone else know this and never canceled the cat scan. So around 10am they came and took us over for one. Then we had to wait for it to be read. Every couple of hours they would tell us it would be another couple of hours. We kept thinking we'd be leaving soon so Tomas never went home to get clean clothes or something to read. Finally around 8pm a new nurse came on duty and after we asked her when we could leave she told us that the guy wouldn't be looking at things till the next morning. At this point I hadn't slept in 36 hours (I can't sleep in hospitals) and was getting very very fed up. Isadora was back to normal so we'd been trapped in a small hospital room with a hyperactive 3 year old all day long and what was the point in waiting another 12 hours to read a cat scan that would be 24 hours old by the time it was read? Even the nurses thought it was ridiculous. Eventually they called in someone higher up who somehow managed to get them to come up, flash a light in her eyes (for the 5th time that day) and say we could go home. I think we made it home around midnight Sunday night.
So now I am supposed to keep Isadora from re-injuring her head. She isn't allowed to ride her bike or do any rough playing for the next month. Right.

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[macaholic.livejournal.com]

get her a helmet and cover the outside with an extra pad of foam..it will offer extra cushioning. she will hate it hopefully. if she does, she won't ride for awhile. if not, well, she is a little better protected.

[birdofparadox.livejournal.com]

I am so glad she's okay.

[danuv.livejournal.com]

She can't ride it anyway because it's chained up. :) I'm starting to think we might should strap that helmet on her 24/7 though.

[danuv.livejournal.com]

Me too!

[lirpa-nwaf.livejournal.com]

Your little flying wonder girl is in my prayers.