GlitterGirl’s Boo Boo
GlitterGirl was watching the squirrels running around up in the trees. Which would normally be okay, except she was walking as she was doing this. And there was a low concrete wall in front of her.
She managed to not actually fall down, but she tore up the front of her shin on the top of the wall in the process. A spot just a little bigger than a quarter, with no skin on it, and it was a bloody mess.
I have some bandages left over from a wound RK had that we had trouble getting to heal. The bandages are large and have silver laced into the little pad on the inside to help keep infection down. So, we cleaned it up, put Dermaplast on it (I love that stuff), and put a bandage on it. As it turns out, GG’s winter skin coloring is the exact same color as the bandage, so you don’t really see it on her leg even if she wears a skirt and sandals. That didn’t make her happy, so she put stickers on the outside of the bandage.
But the biggest part of the story here is how this affected TwinkleToes. She woke up around midnight that night crying, and I went to her room to see what was wrong. She was half asleep complaining that her leg hurt. I asked her to show me where it hurt and she pointed to the spot on her leg that corresponds to her big sister’s pretty significant boo boo.
I tended to the “boo boo” and helped her get back to sleep. The next morning she didn’t remember waking up, or her leg hurting in the night.
When I told RK about it he grinned and said, “What do you call it when the husband also has morning sickness?”
I laughed at first as I said, “Sympathy pains?”
But then, it almost made sense. I really can’t explain how close those two are.
This morning I had RK take TT downstairs to keep her occupied while I changed GG’s bandage. I think the less she’s exposed to the site of it the better at this point.