Pics of Gwen's healing process.

Days 3, 4, and 5. 3 at the bottom and 5 at the top. She's doing a ton better in a very short time. Well.. she was doing great the very next day as far as her energy and bright spirit go, I'm talking about the injury itself her. . . .

Day 2 Comparison Photo

Here's Gwen's rug burn 24 hours later:

Gwen's 1st Trip to the ER

Gwen got to be moving too fast today and fell against some carpeted stairs. As you can see from the picture, her face swelled up something fierce, forcing her eye shut, and that's quite the rug burn too, isn't it?

We called her pediatrician and took her to the closest instacare and were told by both to take her to the ER at Primary Children's, so off we went to the U of U.

The biggest concern the docs had there was that she might have broken her cheek bone, so she had to have a CT scan. She didn't like it at all, but she held still enough that they were able to do the scan without needing to sedate her. Results were negative -- no broken bone. Whew!

The secondary concern was that she might have gotten rug burn on her eye as well as her cheek. They don't think so, but put some fluorescent dye in her eye to see. As you can probably guess, she didn't much care for that either. And her eye was too swollen shut for them to be able to tell, so we've got a follow-up visit with her pediatrician on Friday to check that.

Of tertiary concern is that she may have pooped her nose over a little, but we can't tell that until the swelling goes down. If it looks out of place after that, then we have a referral to an Ear, Nose, & Throat clinic to help with that.

Gwen handled it all rather well. It did take her a while to stop crying, of course, but she was smiling and laughing for the doctors in the ER just before they'd work on her and make her mad. She's asleep now and is lying on her side with the rug burn on the mattress, so it must not be hurting her right now, at least. We tried moving her onto her back, but she just pops back up on to her side.

All in all a very long evening.

Gwen's Walking!

She's been taking a step or 2 every so often for the past couple of month when she couldn't think about it and "just went" but yesterday she finally decided that she didn't want to pop down and crawl to where she wanted to go and thus started lurching around all over the place. Teri's calling her a zombie due to how she's got her arms stretched out in front of her and how she does kinda lurch as she takes her steps.

I should have at least updated back at her 1 year appointment with her statistics then, but. . well, I often forget I have this blog, frankly. She was 20.3 pounds (35th percentile still) and . . I don't recall the exact height but she'd gone up to 90th percentile, so she's even taller and skinnier now than she was. She can still barely fit her 12 month sized pajamas, but for the most part we've got her in the 18 month size now. They still "swallow her up" but she's growing fast, so that won't be for long.