Our first ER visit was on this day. Erin was playing at the school playground and her hands slipped on the monkey bars. She fell and landed face first, not even breaking the fall with her hands. There was blood everywhere and it freaked us out pretty badly. Once she was all cleaned up and got the checkup, it was more obvious that the blood had come from her labial frenulum (the hangy thing between your top lip and top front 2 teeth) and some from her nose. She looked like Karl Malden, though, and we had to wait a few weeks to know if her nose had been broken or needed fixed (it wasn't). Naturally school pictures were just a few days later. At least it will give her a funny story to tell her kids someday.
Under the "awwww" category: Her entire class wrote her "Get well" cards and Mrs. Payton personally delivered them, along with an ice pop for her tender mouth and a stuffed animal from another class. Erin pored over each card for what seemed like hours, then made each child a personalized "thank you" card. She tried to make each one unique. Apparently nothing says "thank you" like a transformer with the chicken pox.
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