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*~*~~UPDATED~~*~*~I had the worst Mother's Day ever! my poor baby girl :(
- May 11, 2009 at 5:36 PM
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UPDATE - 5/12/09 - Rhianna had her dentist visit this morning. Thank the Lord it went well. I was so proud of my baby girl. I prepped her all day yesterday and before we went this morning so she would know what to expect and it worked. I told her everything the dentist would do to her and what the room was like. She opened her mouth and let the dentist look inside and touch where he needed to touch to see if anything was loose or broken. He didn't feel it necessary to do xrays. He said the gums and lip is healling nicely and nothing felt out of place or loose, so he didn't feel it was necessary to put her through more discomfort and pain when everything looked and felt fine. He wants me to come back in about a month and a half to reivaluate her and he said at that time he will do her first xrays to see how things are progressing. I asked if I should be worried about her speech, if not having the front teeth will cause her to have any speech problems and he said that it could happens but more likely she should be fine. If it does happen then to take her to a speech therapist and see if they can work with her or if they feel she would need one of those bridge things. I forgot to ask when i was there if I should worry about her teeth moving and making it the front gap smaller so when these three adult teeth start to grow there won't be proper room. At first when this happened I thought right away i don't care about the gap and the way it looks. she's a child, its normal to have missing teeth. i'm not going to make her wear one of those bridge things, but now i'm worrying about speech and about her teeth moving and making more problems for when her adult teeth to come down that maybe if she did wear the bridge her other teeth will stay where they should stay. so now i'm on the fence about it - if she needs to get one i'll have to do it. i guess i will just have to wait and see how things progress over the next couple of years. But thankfully, as of right now, there is no other damage besides a huge fat lip and three missing baby teeth. She was a little cranky this morning. i supose she was having a little discomfort. I gave her the tylenol and then she was fine. The swelling has gone down a lot - i'd say her front lip is about half the size that it was. She eating well and she's loving all the icees and ice cream. that was the first thing she asked for this morning when she woke up was for a rainbow icee. LOL and of course i gave it to her. :-)
Thank you everyone for all you words of comfort, hugs and prayers during this terrible ordeal. Rhi and I do appreciate it. And I pray it will be the last one for us cause i dont' know if i could handle another one! ugh that was just way too tramatic and stressful to see my baby girl go through that.
5/11/09 - I spent Mother's Day in the ER with my 2.9 year old daughter, Rhianna. She was riding her bicycle, the kind you push with your feet, on the back patio area and decided to go down the side of the house where there is a small step that is maybe 2-3 inches. She went head over the handlebars and landed right on her mouth. She knocked out three of her upper top front teeth right from the root. It also appears that one of the teeth went through her top lip. I was beside myself when I picked her up and saw her mouth gushing blood. I couldn't believe my eyes that this happened to my baby. I just finished telling her seconds before it happened to stay on the patio so she doesn't get a boo boo and she said in her little innocent voice "okay, mommy". They didn't do much for her at the emergency room. Just evaluate her for a couple of hours and sent us home with antibiotics. I have an appointment tomorrow with the pediatric dentist so they can do xrays and make sure there is no underlying damage or problems to her other teeth, her new teeth that are developing under the gums, the bones, nerves, etc... I couldn't sleep all night. it just kept playing over and over in my mind. I feel so bad that i wasn't able to stop her or protect her from it happening to her. It breaks my heart to see her hurt and in pain. Of course children are resilient and she is doing much better today, but my heart still hurts and i'm just eaten up inside with sorrow that i couldn't protect her better.
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Poor bby! =[ Tell her we all hope she feels better.
OMGoodness...feel better fast.
Awww poor baby
Poor baby girl. let me know how her dentist appointment goes.
Oh my gosh :( I feel so bad for her and you! I felt just like that when my son fell down the stairs. I hope she feels better soon! Poor girl!
Oh, no!!! poor baby!!! I'm glad she is ok. My sister fell like that when we were young and had 2 teeth knocked up into her jaw, shattering it. I hope R doesn't have any long term damage from the fall!
OMG...i'm so sorry for your little girl! Hope she's well soon! Big hug
this really hurts my heart to see this!:(... I hope that beuautiful rhi is feeling much better soon!!!! hughs!!!
Thank you everyone for the cares, hugs and concerns for Rhi Rhi. I really do appreciate all the kind words. I'm just so affraid of the dentist appointment. She doesn't take kindly to people, esp. docs, looking or touching her. she totally goes bezerk. at the hospital i had to lay on the gurnee and bear hug her to hold her arms down, my hubby had to hold her legs and another doc had to hold her head just for them to see in her mouth. and to be honest, that usually what i have to do at the peds well visit check up. she never lets the doc near her so its a real battle for us. so i can only imagine what its gonna be like tomorrow morning and i hate to have to put her thru it but i have to be certain she's okay. ugh, i hope i get a better nites sleep tonight to i'm ready for the battle that's ahead of me come morning.
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i hope she is better soon. last tuesday my sons closet doors fell on his head and he had to get 2 staples. its scarry to see your kids covered in so much blood. i hope she gets better and theres no other problems
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