Mary Joyce's New Boo-Boo

Tonight as we were getting ready to go to church, Chet and the girls were on the couch, and somehow, Mary Joyce fell off of the back of the couch and onto our stone tile floor. It was one of those "slow motion" kind of moments, where you see it coming, but you just can't stop it. She got up crying, so we knew she was hurt--she's a tough little thing, unless something is really wrong. Her right thumb started turning colors and swelling. We put ice on it, and immediately called our pediatrician's after-hours clinic. Thankfully, they said they could do x-rays there, so we did manage to avoid the hospital emergency room. Being Wednesday, Chet had to be at church, so we dropped Katherine, Chet, and the food for the covered-dish supper at the church and picked up one of our wonderful church ladies who agreed to ride along. The after-hours clinic is actually in the next county, so after a 20 minute drive, we made it in, and then had to wait on the x-ray tech on-call to arrive. (I was so glad I took someone along, because it dawned on me at the time for the x-ray that I couldn't go into the room with Mary Joyce since I am pregnant. Thankfully, the lady who was with us is one of our regular sitters, so Mary Joyce is very comfortable with her.)

After all was said & done, nothing was broken, but Mary Joyce does have a sprained thumb, which is now sporting a nice splint and an ace bandage. After we got home, we also discovered a big goose-egg on her head. I don't know how 2 parents, a doctor, and a nurse missed seeing that, except for the fact that her bangs covered it up. That led to another call to the doctor's office, of course. All seems to be relatively okay at the moment. Let's pray that tomorrow is a much less eventful day.