What an Ending!

This vacation has not been very relaxing to say the least.

Rachel had one healthy day before this.

We finally got to celebrate Christmas with my family because everyone was finally over the stomach flu, and after about an hour and a half, Rachel was running around and fell and hit her head on the door frame. She was gushing blood. After we saw the gash, which was pretty deep, we decided to go to urgent care because we were an hour away and it closed in two hours so we knew we had to get there soon.

This is her second bandage and you can see how much blood was on this one. She hated having the big bandage on and wouldn't leave it alone. When we got there, we got moved to the front of the line in front of at least 10 people who were already there. They were definitely worried about the head trauma. They were even saying that we might have to go to the E.R. Thankfully, the doctor thought that it was just a gash and that he didn't think we needed a CAT scan.

This picture does not do it justice. All she kept saying was ouch. They put a numbing agent on it and let that soak in for about a half an hour. They strapped her down on the backboard, which she hated being strapped down, and then got the needles out and injected her with lidocaine. She ended up with 4 stitches total.

When we got home, she got an otterpop and got to open her presents from Mom, David, Tyler and Lacey. As she was pulling out the megablocks, she put every single one on her face. It was really funny.

She is sporting her new jammies from her Grandma and Grandpa.

She got a cool Tinkerbell quad from Tyler and Lacey, but won't be riding that until we get her a helmet!

:)