[Miss Marple]

Well, I have had a traumatic afternoon. After picking my granddaughter up at nursery school we went to her house. While I was in the bathroom, she was hopping around waiting to go outside to play in the warm weather. Just as I exited the bathroom she fell (apparently tripped) and banged her head into the doorjamb of her bedroom. She hit it so hard that it left a stripe of paint from the trim on her forehead, along with a small cut and a HUGE hematoma, about the size of a tennis ball, and about 2 inches high. While she was crying, I about passed out.

I met her mother at the emergency room. My granddaughter did NOT want to go to the hospital, because "that is where they cut people open." (Apparently some bright child at her school gave her that information.) When we got to the hospital, which I had sworn to her would not cut her open, we drove by the cardio unit which had a heart as part of its logo, and she screamed "There's a HEART , Grandma! They are going to cut me open!"

I about passed out from the stress, I swear.

Anyway, the nurses and the doctor were really good with her and got her calmed down, she didn't have anything wrong other than a huge lump and a bruise, and I am now home having a martini.

[Neets]

Sounds like you need 2 martini’s.

That is enough to make you want to down the whole bottle.

[Iowa Granny]

Oh Dear. What a horrible experience for YOU and for your Gd.

Don’t settle for 2 simple drinks. Make them DOUBLES!!! You’ve earned them.

[tillacum]

I don’t blame you one bit, that was traumatic, maybe a double.

[DollyCali]

What an awful experience for both of you! This is coopster’s daughter? Glad she is okay now but I am sure you were literally sick to your stomach to see her after the fall & then go thru the fright experience with her didn’t help.

Need to try to go back to sleep but note two BIG dogs have commandeered my sleeping area...