Stitches

We made our first trip home this weekend since Cooper has been born. We headed up on Thursday afternoon and came back on Sunday. We had a great time spending time with my parents, having an extended family cook-out on Friday night, and stopping by a Chrysalis flight on Saturday morning.

Saturday took a dramatic and scary turn as we were driving back from the Chrysalis flight around 10:00am. We got a phone call that my sister, Keisha, and my niece, Addison, were in a car accident and were riding by ambulance to the hospital. Another driver had run a red light and slammed directly into my sister's car as she was turning - right at the passenger side door where Addison was sitting in her car seat. My sister was fine minus some bumps and bruises but we had many scary hours waiting to make sure Addison was ok.

At 9:00pm that night, 11 hours later, Addison was released. She had two 2cm. gashes on her head and one 1cm. gash. The gashes were so deep that they were almost to her skull. They had to take her to the operating room and put her to sleep to sew them up - mainly because she is so small, the cuts were so deep, they were on her face so the stitches needed to be done well not to leave a scar, and she was having a fit each time the doctor came close. She had to get two layers of stitches for each cut (you medical people can explain this better than I). She was exhausted and quite pale after all the blood that she had lost. Two days later, they are doing well.

My dad spoke to the wrecker driver and he said that it was a miracle that she did not get hurt any worse. The passenger door is pushed in all the way until it is touching her car seat which gives you an idea of the force of impact. Keisha's car is totaled but we are just very thankful that they are ok. What a weekend...