Re: 5yr old Girl hit forehead on metal table
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- Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 05:16:51 GMT
"Design611" <design611@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Situation:
About 2.5 weeks ago my wife and I had taken our daughter to a
neighborhood bookstore.
My 5yr old daughter while getting out of a raised chair lost her
balance and fell out hitting her head on a neighboring metal shelf.
Point of impact was above her eyebrow on right side of forehead. What
followed was a 'goose egg' size knot. Within 24hrs she was seen by an
ER doctor who stated based on her Neurological responses 'HE' felt
nothing was wrong. As I stated we are almost at week #3 and the knot
has subsided about 60% but I'm noticing an indentation around the area
of impact from the fall. My concern is will this visually noticable
indentation subside or could there been some rupturing of cells below
the skin that are causing this 'sunken in' area of skin??
My wife thinks I'm over reacting but you know it's better to be safe
than sorry. I have all the faith in the world that the Lord has healed
my daughter. But I also believe he has blessed Doctor's / Nurses etc..
with skills to help people.
I'm trying to identify someone who may of had their little one
experience something similar.
I have asked my wife to take our daughter for an x-ray and hopefully
she'll do that tomorrow. I work long days therefore me taking her would
be a challenge.
Again, I'm just reaching out to see if a visually noticed indentation
is something that disapates with time or are there other things that we
should be looking at?
Much appreciated for you reading / responding to this post.
Alex
California
DS had his scalp sliced right up from just below his hair line up about an
inch passed his hair line. An hour of surgery by a plastic surgeon and
about 20 stitches, he still has some dents and odd-looking parts to his
forehead. This is now 2 months later, and it's still healing, and it does
look better each day, and looks 100x better than it did on Day 1, but still
a ways to go. DS is also 5 years old - his 5th birthday was 2 days before
this happened.
Kids heal so well, it seems, but as with anyone, healing does take time.
I was originally told there would be little to no scars in the end, although
this I do not believe. I would say that it's still fairly soon, and that
her head is still healing. You might still end up with a small little dent
in that spot, but still, I say give it time and eventually it should become
less and less noticeable.
My brother, when he was 3, pulled a mug of boiled tea on him at the
babysitter's house. Babysitter put the mug on top of the wall unit - high
up - to answer the door, thinking it would be safe up there from my brother,
and definitely was a lot safer than on the coffee table or kitchen table,
but he managed to climb up in a matter of seconds, pull it down on him and
have 2nd and 3d degree burns on his chest. One part of his chest - on the
top left hand corner above his breast, there's a small patch that did not
heal. It was the area that the healing skin kept ripping off each time
there was a dressing change - at this time, doctors were on strike and he
was not seen in a hospital or a place where he could have had better care...
He was at the drop-in Medical clinic. Almost 17 years later, that patch of
skin is barely noticeable, and you can only notice it if you know it's there
and in the summer if he has a tan. Kids heal. I would think that any dent
in your daughter will be minor in time, even if it looks horrible right now!
.
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