Our first ER Visit

was pretty uneventful. Sunday afternoon Emma had come in crying from a cut she had gotten on her foot while riding on the back of Ben's bike that spins around. It was bleeding but nothing out of the ordinary so I told her that she needed to take a hot shower and I will look at when shes out. She forgot about it so I forgot about it. Come Tuesday, while helping her put on her sandal I noticed it was red around the cut and warm to the touch. I put some ointment on it and a band aid and we were off to do our errands. Later while reading up on the Internet about cuts getting infected, a mom had written that her daughter had a line that started to go up her leg toward her heart and that was a sign that a serious infection had set in or blood poisoning. I looked at Emma's foot and was glad to not see a line. She asked me several times Tuesday to take her to the doctor (which she NEVER does) and I of course ignored it saying we would see if it got better. 4:30 rolls around and i check look at it again and this time there is the pink line going up her foot. I called the doctor and they advised me just to head to the ER. Hunter was at wrestling and my night was already full so I waited till I could pick him up, grabbed a pizza for the boys dinner picked up Navi to help Ben finish his homework and hang out with them and took Emma. Well not before having her shower and put on her pjs and packing a backpack full of books and charging the ipod touch to keep her entertained(which came in very handy while they tried to put in her IV 3 times). Basically once they checked her out they told us she would need 24 hours of antibiotics through an IV and would be admitted to the hospital that night. The good thing about that night was that our boys were already planning on spending the night at friends houses and going to school with them because I was scheduled for outpatient surgery the next morning and was leaving at 5a.m. The bad thing about that was deciding how I could leave and feel comfortable leaving my baby(whose 5 tomorrow) in the hospital. Dustin wanted to take me and have one of our many volunteers come stay with Emma for the morning but I opted for him to stay with her. I drove myself to the hospital after sleeping for 20 minutes had the surgery and as soon as I woke up wanted to get out of there as quick as possible. My mom was there with whole wheat blueberry pancakes and drove me back to the hospital to be with Emma.

She was loving the hospital at this point with the playroom full of toys, paints, movies and games and loving the visitors that came with balloons, candy, books and flowers. The doctor came into the playroom and wanted to see how her foot was doing so he followed her back to her room while she skipped and jumped down the hall. He quickly realized she was more than fine and the medicine had worked quickly. We were discharged in the afternoon and she requested Jojo's as soon as we left the hospital. Thankfully Julianne picked up our boys from school, took them to scouts, and then fed them dinner while I napped and Emma was off to a bday party(she really was fine).

We have had medical insurance off and on for the 10 years we've had kids(mainly off) and have never had to visit the ER or have any surgeries aside from 3 c-sections. The fact that 5 months ago we were able to get great insurance through WF and that we had 2hospital visits in 1 day makes me so thankful that we have been watched over all these years. Besides me not sleeping the timing of it all worked out rather well with the boys being taken care of, Dustin having work off already and nothing planned for that day. It was also soo nice knowing I had 10 different offers to help out in any way (aside from bree) although in the end i decided to just dump it all on Julianne:)

In other news my baby girl turns 5 tomorrow. She will not be playing spin the bottle at her party. She was very specific on her request for hotdogs, Salad with chinese dressing, chips and guac and blue cupcakes for her party. Things are never dull with her around and I could not have asked for a funnier, sweet, strongwilled girl. She makes our lives entertaining and STILL has her brothers wrapped around her finger. Im always wondering how long that will last......im thinking not too much longer but hoping it doesn't end.

2 hours home from the hopital..........