get this girl a helmet

the victim


scene of accident


the injury


You know how there are certain babies that are like Weebles, they fall and never seem to hurt themselves? Then there are those that fall and always seem to land on their head. Oona is in the latter group, possibly because of her huge melon head and the laws of gravity. Two trips to the ER in less than two months due to head injuries, the girl is trying to shorten my life. I don't know how she injured herself so badly on her toy. I guess if I was litigious I could call up Berger and Greene, a shameless law firm here in Pittsburgh, their commercials show cars exploding or money being made at the mint who promise to get you 'all the money you deserve!' But how random is that accident? The toy isn't dangerous, hasn't been recalled as far as I know? It just seems like a million to one chance that someone would fall and cut their head on the yellow deck where the seal goes down the slide, raise the deck and you get a lovely barking seal sound. Toby was in the room and rushed over to her, it was one of those delayed scream injuries where she was gathering enough air to really cry. Initially we thought her injury was more severe because her head is flatter on that side (due to positional plagiocephaly) so we worried that her skull might have dented in a bit. That wasn't the case, thank f***ing God! Toby took her to the ER. I was too shaky and it was snowing with freezing rain, I thought I'd wipe out with her on the stairs much less the drive over to the hospital. As soon as they got there Toby said she ran over to one of the nurses, arms outstretched, waiting for her to pick her up. No stranger anxiety with this one. Toby said she was not happy, basically screaming bloody murder, when they anesthetized her head and were pulling on the cut to see if it warranted staples. They decided to give her a couple to keep the injury from tearing open again. I asked if they noticed that she'd just been there in December and Toby said Social services was called in and that they asked him all these questions aobut why I stay at home with Oona and what are the marks on her back from (there aren't any). But he was kidding with me, he knows how much I worry about 1. the kids getting hurt and 2. if they get hurt that someone will think I hurt them or neglected them. He said all the nurses thought she was adorable and were commenting on how cute her little coat was. Does anyone else ever worry about being accused of being abusive when you're not or is this some bizarre neurotic quirk that's unique to me? Oona came home none the worse for wear, just had dried foamy stuff in her hair and was a little sleepy from spending 2 hours in the 'fast track' part of the ER.