Plastic surgery?

At 10:45 yesterday morning, I got a call from Maddie's school. My stomach sank a little when I saw the school on the caller ID. I thought, "oh this can't be good." It wasn't. Maddie fell going up the ladder of the slide and slipped. She busted her lip open. The teacher that called me said she would probably need stitches.

(This picture is from my camera phone, so not real clear)

So I rushed up to school and couldn't believe the gash I saw when I got her. I took her to the urgent care center, where Russ met us. The doctor there was great. He said, if it was his daughter, he would take her to a plastic surgeon. He said he could do the stitches but since it goes in to her bottom lip, he would rather a specialist do it. He called a plastic surgeon, and we were told to be there in an hour.

We got there, and this doctor was a little different. (lots of botox in his face! weird) But he was very good. They gave Maddie a shot that put her in a twilight sleep. Her eyes were open the whole time, but she was way out of it. He gave her lots of numbing shots and then starting sewing. It was the teeny tiniest needle I had ever seen. She had either 7 or 8 stitches from her bottom lip down. I felt so bad for her, but she was tough.

Maddie was hilarious when coming out of the twilight sleep. She put her hands in front of her face and wiggled her fingers, like, "what the heck are these?". She kept reaching up and touching our faces and kept wanting to give us hugs. She probably told me that I had 4 eyes about 5 different times. But the funniest was when she put her arms up in the air and started twirling them around. She said, "my arms are really dizzy". We waited around about 30-45 minutes after the procedure to give her time to wake up a little. She said she was ready to go and sat up in bed, then fell flat on her face in bed. That cracked us up. It was just like you'd see in a movie. So Russ had to carry her out. She couldn't even sit up straight her in car seat. She kept sliding down and her head just bobbed all over.

But she is doing fine today. She was nervous about going to school, but excited to show her friends her "scar". Hopefully it won't be too bad of a scar. At least she'll be able to cover it with make-up someday!