First Head Injury

We had an eventful Friday morning when we went to drop Hannah at school.  Ella threw herself backwards on the pavement, and blood was gushing out of the back of her head.  I immediately panicked, grabbed a mom that was walking in, asked her opinion - we both decided to call 911.  She took Hannah to her classroom and sent out the head of Hannah's school and some other teachers to help me, and we waited for the ambulance to arrive.  I applied pressure to Ella's head, and by the time the ambulance arrived it had stopped bleeding.  Ella was very calm and brave while they checked her, and they gave us the all clear to head to the doctor's office instead of Beaumont.  Thankfully, our neighbor Kelly (an ER pediatrician at Beaumont) was home and came to check her out.  I felt much better getting confirmation that she thought she would be just fine.  My poor little girl is sleeping it off now.  She has a good size lump on her head, but was thrilled to get to take some Tylenol before nap.

The pictures are after most of the blood had been wiped away, but you get the picture...  It was not pretty.