tisdag 4 november 2008

Norah's been in hospital

Saturday morning I was making breakfast and put my newly made teacup on the kitchen counter while making sandwiches. Somehow God knows how Norah reached up there and pored the whole cup of hot tea all over her arm. She was screaming like crazy and I pretty much freaked out. Luckily J was very calm and put her in the shower with cold water before we took her to the ER. They looked at the arm and sent us to the hospital in Örebro instead. They thought it looked like second degree burn so we had to stay over the weekend to keep and eye on her. She also needed some extra fluid in her body so she got that through a sond( don't know the english word ) in her nose. I stayed the 2 nights with her and she was so brave the whole time even though it must have hurt like hell. Yesterday a plastic surgeon looked at the arm and luckily it was much better then they thought from the start. It was only second degree burn on her elbow and the rest of the arm and hand was first degree so that will heal by itself in a few weeks time. I was so happy to hear that 'cause I've been feeling so guilty over this the whole weekend. Why did I put the tea cup there and why didn't I see that she reached up there and so on...although I know these things happen so fast , you always wanna protect your kids from everything bad. She was very happy to come home again and she's playing with her toys and seems to be doing fine. We have to give her painkillers of course every 6 hours so she wont be in pain and we need to get the elbow checked out every other day to make sure she's not getting an infection but if everything goes well she should be healed ok in a few weeks time.

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