Wow .. nothing traumatic about having to have it all done all over
again two weeks later now is there!!! Grrrrrrr Poor kid. I can't
believe they didn't call in a plastic surgeon to begin with since
they were dealing with a child with a wound on her face. How
horrible and no x-rays?
One time when our Kyd was about 3 1/2 she did a face plant onto
concrete off a few steps. We took her to the Sullivan, MO ER and
eventually wound up leaving without being seen and just called the
Children's Hospital emergency line. The first thing they said we
should worry about would be breaking the bones above or below her
eye and having injury to her eye. The phone nurse walked me through
how to feel around the eye and check for something broken and
strongly suggested we head right for Children's and have x-rays.
Being the poor parents that we are, we didn't do that but when we
took her to the pedi the next day two docs essentially did the same
thing I was told to do and then decided to not do x-rays -- said
had those bones been broken we would have definitely known it by
then. Hmmmm now that I think about it ... maybe that's why they
didn't do x-rays -- if they keep you waiting long enough and nothing
falls out or off then you don't need to have it x-rayed.
Hope she did ok with the surgery and that this will be all that she
needs.
As for the ER doc .. Go get 'em .. that's your kid he messed with!!
Nancy
----- Original Message -----
From: thejones crew
To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 9:40 PM
Subject: [GeoStL] NGR---Emily update
A couple of weeks ago Emily and Brad were on my Dad's Ranger (Large
4 wheeler). They were not supposed to be on it at all. They didn't
have it running, but slipped it out of gear. As it was rolling a
little, Brad pulled the emergency brake. Emily went forward and hit
her head on the roll bar. She had a 1+ inch gash to her face...in
the middle of her right eyebrow. We took her to the ER and 4 1/2
hours later the doctor saw her. The triage nuse, the ER nurse, and
myself (also a nurse) had all decided "yes she needs stictches". The
Dr. came in and said he was going to fix it with glue. I told him I
wanted whatever we needed to do to minamize any scars. He insisted
that glue was the way to go. He smeared some glue on and was done. I
right away said it didn't look good at all....edges not together for
starters. He siad that was how it was supposed to look. The nurse
came in and I told her I didn't like it, she had the Dr. come in
again. Told him I had looked closer at it, and I was NOT HAPPY with
it, the edges are NOT together. He told me it was fine and "we could
redo it, but I advise against retraumatizing her." I said fine and
that I would take her to our primary doc the next day. I did take
her and right away they agreed that it was a messed up job. They
took X-rays (since the ER doc couldn't be bothered to check on that
either), and set her up to see a plastic surgeon.
Long story a little shorter....the plastic surgeon took a look at it
and within 3 hours she was in surgery. It looks GREAT now! I am
planning on going to see an attorney tomorrow.
Subject: [GeoStL] Re: Lunch tomorrow - Friday
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 08:58:49 -0500
From: Bridget.Griffin@xxxxxxxx
To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
What happened to Emily??? Is she doing okay?
Bridget
From: geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
] On Behalf Of thejones crew
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 4:35 PM
To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [GeoStL] Re: Lunch tomorrow - Friday
Thought I was finally going to get to eat lunch with the gang, but
Emily ended up having surgery today and not just a consult. She has
a follow up in two weeks so we will get a second chance then. What
are you all doing on the 15th???
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