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Oh mate this is heartbreaking to see. Your kid is such a trooper. I hope she makes a speedy recovery. Best wishes to her from Australia.
 
Brian:

It was good to see the smile on Alayna's face especially after her accident. Thoughts & prayers for a speedy recovery. It takes a bit of courage to be a parent these days. I'm sure she knew deep down that you would be there to make things right.

Peter
 
I am sorry to hear that Alayna suffered such a nasty fall and deep cut. That is a scary experience no matter how old you are when it happens. Despite the pain, I am sure that it meant the world to her to have you fighting (verbally, not physically :thumbup: ) for her to get the best care available. The whole experience was clearly traumatizing for both of you, but together you made it through. It is wonderful to see her smiling again just the next day. She clearly inherited some of her Dad's toughness to fight through difficult circumstances.

I am glad that the card and match safe arrived at just the right time to cheer Alayna up a little while she is healing up. Please keep us posted on her progress. I am praying for good rest and a speedy recovery for her.

Best wishes for your family!

Phil
 
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Sorry to see that this happened to her. Glad to see someone come through with exactly what she wanted though. The Fiddleback Family is an awesome group.
Thanks for sharing.
 
Thanks everyone. It makes her smile to see so many people caring about her and wishing and praying for her. That means more to me than I can express!


Comprehensivist said:
I am sorry to hear that Alayna suffered such a nasty fall and deep cut. That is a scary experience no matter how you you are when it happens. Despite the pain, I am sure that it meant the world to her to have you fighting (verbally, not physically :thumbup: ) for her to get the best care available. The whole experience was clearly traumatizing for both of you, but together you made it through. It is wonderful to see her smiling again just the next day. She clearly inherited some of her Dad's toughness to fight through difficult circumstances.

I am glad that the card and match safe arrived at just the right time to cheer Alayna up a little while she is healing up. Please keep us posted on her progress. I am praying for good rest and a speedy recovery for her.

Best wishes for your family!

Phil
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Thank you Phil. It wasn't easy for either Lisa or myself to maintain our composure when what we really felt like doing was pulling someone over a desk by the hair of their head, but we had eachother for mutual support and reminding each other what was really important and what was best to do.

The next couple of days are still a little scary for me. There was a lot of debris in the wound so infection is a concern for me. Wewon't be doing any fire starting practice for a little while, but in a few days when it has had a chance to settle down and heal some we will be out walking on some local trails at least and letting her get a feel for her new compass :)

Like I said, the timing couldn't have been any better, thank you so much for your kindness!!
 
One of the hardest parts about being a parent is when the kids get really hurt. You want to freak out, but you have to stay calm for them. However kids are resilient. She looks like she is already bouncing back.

So here is a little "trick" that I learned the past year and a half. My youngest (barely 3 at the time) busted open her chin running around and needed stitches. We are waiting and waiting in the ER, and finally she gets assessed by a nurse who confirms that she needs stitches. My wife who is also nurse requests that a plastic surgeon do them. The nurse hems and haws and says that the ER doctor is good and that we should just wait. So we are waiting, and my wife is irritated by waiting and by them not calling in a plastic surgeon. She says, "Screw this. They are only a building over. I'm calling the plastic surgery clinic myself." She calls them, explains what happened, and asks if we can get an appointment even on short notice. They say, "Sure thing. We'll fit her in." We walk over, wait a half a hour, and then get called back. They do a great job. So fast forward a month my middle one busts his head open at school, and it looks like he needs stitches on his scalp. This time we didn't even mess around with the ER. We called the plastic surgery clinic right away, and they get us in with minimal waiting.

So the moral of the story is this: if you or a loved one needs stitches during regular office hours, call the plastic surgery clinic first, they do a better job and they are cheaper since it is a clinic visit opposed to an ER visit.
 
Since she's gonna be one handed for a while..........maybe Dad needs to buy her a nice new spring loaded flipper to play with/ remember how well her Dad took care of her?!

:) :)
 
Whew! What a trooper she is. Been in her shoes more than I ever wanted to with serious cuts. I once had a school nurse insist my hand wasn't broken multiple times over the course of a school day and my dad about ripped her a new one when he was finally called. That's a cool memory hehe. Good job maintaining your cool. It would be awful rough on us when you started posting pics of jail cell flora & fauna :-P I'm glad she's ok and I know she'll heal fast.
 
Nothing worse than seeing children in pain. My experiences with hospital staff has been the same, very disconcerting when your little one is in so much pain.

I hope little Alayna heals up soon. She is a brave girl and deserves a lot of pampering .
 
Kids are tough. My nephew fractured his femur when he was 3, and he was bouncing around playing in no time at all.

It would have been tough to keep cool at some of those ER receptionist. All my best to Alayna and to a speedy recovery.
 
Hey Brian and Alayna!
Yes, I have to agree. This forum does have some of the best people around! Especially Phil. Such a genuinely nice person and always a sincere pleasure to correspond with. Hey, you're not too shabby yourself Brian :p.
Alayna, we always love seeing your smiling face in your dad's numerous posts! I'm sorry that you were hurt, but glad to see that you toughed it out. You'll have a nice battle scar for sure. Although, it's likely that in a few years it will be hard to see with the fact that your little hands are still growing :o.

I wish the both of you well, and hope you have a nice Easter!

Take care,
Sergio
 
Brian, I understand your concern, care and frustration when caring for an injured child. It can be upsetting and nerve-wracking. I sure that your daughter knows how much you care for her.

Yesterday not but 5 minutes after reading your post and commenting, my 7 year old son William came upstairs crying and holding his arm. We had been over at a friend's house for the evening and he had been rough-housing with his brothers and friends.

He fell backwards onto his outstretched arm and was in a fair bit of pain. After he came upstairs and was sitting on my lap (not calming down) and his elbow was beginning to swell, I decided to take him to Emergency.

2 1/2 hours later they had done x-rays, confirmed that he had fractured his elbow, put it in a cast and sling and sent us on our way.
 
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Brian

I've said it numerous times over the years. You're a great dad and Alayna certainly is blessed to have such a strong father (parents) for support a guidance. My thoughts mimic everyone's here. I know the feeling of caring for a hurt daughter and I can appreciate the wind down after. We will continue to pray for Alayna as she moves forward in her healing.

Dave
 
Hope all the kids in this thread make a fast recovery.

Op I'll share some advice with you . My daughter is 2 but I have 2 nieces and someone is always getting hurt. Invest in some quik clot. I've used the powder the most and it works wonders to stop bleeding. It actually stopped the bleeding when I cut an artery in my wrist until I could get to the hospital. They make a spray form of it as well.

Oldest niece had some kind of fall around their pool and she opened up her forehead pretty badly. We used the spray quik clot on her and it stopped that bleeding as well.

Can be purchased at Walmart and it's paid for itself in my family a few times over. I'm not gonna lie the powder burns like hell fire , but it will stop bleeding like nobodies business.
 
Thanks guys, I have been through the cut open and bleeding badly thing myself as a kid. Shot, stabbed, and cut since then. My father was a Marine who had grown up in the depression and he raised me to be anything but helpless. But nothing I had ever been through approached the level of fear and emotion I felt when they had to put her under, or even worse when they said they couldn't stop the bleeding and were calling in a surgeon and prepping an OR. It was like being in a nightmare I couldn't wake up from. It was really hard to keep it together there for a little while. When we left and I knew she was stable I was still feeling the adrenaline and really I wanted to go back to the first hospital and just slap the hell out of that receptionist. But Alayna was saying she was starving, so that kept my mind occupied. She hadn't stopped for a snack when she came in from school and had gone straight to the park. So it had been over 12 hours since she last ate. I was just glad she was hungry and since the pain medicine was still working on her hand she smiled and laughed as we at waffles and bacon and all else just sort of faded into the background.

Chris, I will look into the plastic surgery clinics and see what we have available here.

Sergio now that I can laughit is funny how she is seeing the cool factor of it. She asked how many stitches she has, she hasn't seen them yet as she was still under as they were bandaging it up, and when Lisa told her 25 she said "Yes! That's even more than so-n-so had!" some boy in her class :) It was even funnier when Lisa said later that she had been expecting that day for about 5 years but always assumed it would have something to do with me and a knife she was using in the woods. I am sooooo thankful that was not the case!

Tek man, I am sorry your boy got hurt, man with kids if it isn't one thing to keep you worried it's another! I hope he gets better soon!

Dave, thanks man. I am hoping the worst is over, but with the amount of debris that was in the cut I am still concerned about infection and keeping a close eye on it. We will be changing the dressing today and I am on pins and needles over that!

SpartanI have some first aid supplied given to me by friends who are a nurse and an EMT but it is all still jumbled in a box and I don't understand what all of it is yet. I know there is Thrombix in there but not sure how to use it correctly yet. I will buy some quick clot spray for now and have them over for lunch and a lesson one day very soon.
 
My little one had to have surgery back in July. (Adnoid) not sure of spelling but they had to remove her adnoids.

We get there at 4 a.m (hospital was an hour away) it was children's hospital so they've got the toys laid out everywhere and I'm pushing my daughter around in a push car , trying to calm my nerves!

Dr. assured me it was a minor surgery and he had the kids just lined up that day (about 50 on the board matter of fact.

So after 3 hours of waiting they come get my daughter and she's screaming and crying and I'm getting shaken here because she's scared. We were on the 2nd floor and I tell my wife and my parents I'm stepping outside to smoke because my nerves were shot!

Literally I went to the restroom ,grabbed a drink from a drink machine and walked the 50 yard walk to the smoking area and get a text from my wife! I start freaking out as I pull the phone out , but it was my wife telling me the surgery was done and all had went perfect.

One of the worst feelings I've ever had was seeing my daughter like that and nothing I could do to help her.
 
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My little one had to have surgery back in July. (Adnoid) not sure of spelling but they had to remove her adnoids.

We get there at 4 a.m (hospital was an hour away) it was children's hospital so they've got the toys laid out everywhere and I'm pushing my daughter around in a push car , trying to calm my nerves!

Dr. assured me it was a minor surgery and he had the kids just lined up that day (about 50 on the board matter of fact.

So after 3 hours of waiting they come get my daughter and she's screaming and crying and I'm getting shaken here because she's scared. We were on the 2nd floor and I tell my wife and my parents I'm stepping outside to smoke because my nerves were shot!

Literally I went to the restroom ,grabbed a drink from a drink machine and walked the 50 yard walk to the smoking area and get a text from my wife! I start freaking out as I pull the phone out , but it was my wife telling me the surgery was done and all had went perfect.

One of the worst feelings I've ever had was seeing my daughter like that and nothing I could do to help her.
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I totally understand that! I had gotten past the ordeal with the first receptionist. Then we were in the room with Alayna while they were putting her under and getting ready to do the surgery on her hand. So we stepped out the glass door to see but not be a distraction with any grimaces or anything and we watched. The attending nurse said that was fine. A few minutes later we were told the bleeding had started again and they weren't sure they could stop it. They were calling in a surgeon and prepping an OR. Then we were told they had to wake her up because she couldn't stay under that long and they would have to put her under again! Then the little girl at the nurses station told us we would have to go to a waiting room. I lost my cool for a moment. But then they stopped the bleeding and were able to finish in the next ten minutes. Lisa was there for her when she woke up, I was keeping myself from committing a class A felony while staying in the immediate area by demanding to see the charge nurse and getting an email for a superior. Young people who have never even had kids, much less a seriously injured one, have no business telling a concerned parent they have to leave during a sudden crisis with their child in such a nonchalant tone. That did not go over very well at all for me...
 
I know the feeling . Before the surgery we had went through 2 Pediatricians. Her first doctor and I'm being literal here . First Dr. She had seen 8 times for an ear infection or ear infections over the past 9-10 months. He kept just giving her the same antibiotic and around the last day of taking the antibiotic she's start with her ears again. I work crazy hours but this was the last straw.

I skipped work and went to the Dr. Well we waited and waited and a nurse comes in we explain the antibiotics aren't working blah blah blah. She comes back in with a script for the same antibiotic and we never even see the Dr.

That's fine and all until my wife says she's not seen the Dr. The last 3-4 times she's been there. So I ask the nurse if we can see the Dr. She replied with attitude in her voice as if I was questioning her judgement.

I said no offense but we have blue cross blue shield insurance and I'd like my daughter to be seen by the Dr. So we wait another 20-25 minutes here comes the Dr. With a tablet in his hands. He reads her chart and repeated what the nurse had said.

I said she's 2 years old and on her whatever round of antibiotics obviously they aren't working ,can or will you do something else. No joke now, the Dr. Goes to WebMD on the tablet types something , reads it and writes my daughter another script for a stronger antibiotic. I did get heated after that and I said some not so nice things to this Dr. but I think I was justified in doing it. Of course I waited until my daughter was in the lobby to say it ,but anybody with kids should know a parent seeing their kids in pain or sick is heartbreaking . To have a medical professional act like my kid is nothing and they won't even look me in my face when talking because it's buried in a tablet ! Come on now.
 
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