In case you can not identify this young lady, it is Maycee. Poor girl. She was riding her bike the Thursday before the 4th of July and CRASHED hard. Jeff and I were outside when she did it but we were at the neighbors a couple houses down and our neighbor watched it happen, AAHHH She was sitting there on her hands and knees SCREAMING with her tooth dangling out of her mouth(by a nerve the dentist said), blood dripping from her nose and mouth. I had a movie that our neighbor borrowed from us in my hand(Twilight, oh yeah!) and I chucked it, scooped Maycee up and headed for home. Thank heavens our dentist lives down the street from us. He came over and looked at her, SHOVED her tooth back up where it should go and headed over to his office with us.
He got us to the office and deadened her whole upper mouth and that made her very silly. I think she was acting like she was on laughing gas, but she wasn't... The dentist was explaining to us that what she had done to her mouth was similar to if you tear every ligament in your knee, cuz her whole tooth was ripped out. And Maycee asked what a ligament was and he was trying to explain it to her, and I said they are kinda like rubber bands. She kept saying"rrrrruuubber bands" and giggling. It was really cute.
He had to hold her tooth in place, so he strung floss and some binding goo from tooth to tooth so that it would hopefully stay where it should be, kinda like braces. This picture here is her after a week of healing. She has now had an X-RAY of her nose done, it was huge and bigger on one side because her glasses smashed into her hard(somehow didn't break, but were not the shape glasses should be and were very scuffed up)But her nose was not broken...Yeah! And now at age 9 has had a root canal done on her very front tooth to try to prevent discoloration. All I could do at the end of that terrible night is look at Jeff and say,"Did that really just happen?". Now we just wait and see if everything stays good, good color and hope the tooth stays there. And can we please never do this again. Lincoln broke his tooth(the very same one) out on his bike last year, so good luck Carson. I hope you keep your tooth!!!
In case you can not identify this young lady, it is Maycee. Poor girl. She was riding her bike the Thursday before the 4th of July and CRASHED hard. Jeff and I were outside when she did it but we were at the neighbors a couple houses down and our neighbor watched it happen, AAHHH She was sitting there on her hands and knees SCREAMING with her tooth dangling out of her mouth(by a nerve the dentist said), blood dripping from her nose and mouth. I had a movie that our neighbor borrowed from us in my hand(Twilight, oh yeah!) and I chucked it, scooped Maycee up and headed for home. Thank heavens our dentist lives down the street from us. He came over and looked at her, SHOVED her tooth back up where it should go and headed over to his office with us.
He got us to the office and deadened her whole upper mouth and that made her very silly. I think she was acting like she was on laughing gas, but she wasn't... The dentist was explaining to us that what she had done to her mouth was similar to if you tear every ligament in your knee, cuz her whole tooth was ripped out. And Maycee asked what a ligament was and he was trying to explain it to her, and I said they are kinda like rubber bands. She kept saying"rrrrruuubber bands" and giggling. It was really cute.
He had to hold her tooth in place, so he strung floss and some binding goo from tooth to tooth so that it would hopefully stay where it should be, kinda like braces. This picture here is her after a week of healing. She has now had an X-RAY of her nose done, it was huge and bigger on one side because her glasses smashed into her hard(somehow didn't break, but were not the shape glasses should be and were very scuffed up)But her nose was not broken...Yeah! And now at age 9 has had a root canal done on her very front tooth to try to prevent discoloration. All I could do at the end of that terrible night is look at Jeff and say,"Did that really just happen?". Now we just wait and see if everything stays good, good color and hope the tooth stays there. And can we please never do this again. Lincoln broke his tooth(the very same one) out on his bike last year, so good luck Carson. I hope you keep your tooth!!!
3 comments:
I'd rather have a normal CAT scan than a danging bloody tooth:) She is growing right up. I know her face is bashed in these pictures, but it's changing from her little girl face. Where has the time gone? And yes, good luck Carson. Make him wear a football helmet on the bike.
I must say that Maycee is cute as a button even with a big nose. Her little freckles are super!! Glad you're getting better Maycee Lou!
Oh poor Maycee!!! I am glad you are doing better!!! You are such a trooper!!!!! Pam I am glad you work with blood on a daily basses, and could handle this!!!! I would have FREAKED out!!!! Good job to you!!!!!
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