Sunday, May 20, 2007

A Bruised Nose

Caleb had a bad accident a couple days ago. He was playing with daddy in the room before his bedtime, ran toward his bed, tripped over daddy, and fell flat-faced against the edge of the wooden bedframe. When I heard the loud crash downstairs, I ran upstairs only to see Caleb's face and mouth all bloody from his bleeding nose and blood all over on the carpet and daddy's shirt. I had no clue what happened and just panicked as I had never seen so much blood squirting out of a person's nose before. After calming myself down a bit with a prayer and finding out from Andy what had happened, the bleeding stopped and Caleb seemed to be functioning normally despite the swollen nose and remaining blood clots. We were very grateful to God the damage was not worse and his eyes were spared (there is a big horrible-looking purple swollen patch right between his eye and nose now).

With a very bruised nose, Caleb was asked many times today at church what had happened. Another mother so happened to share that her daughter had just had stitches on her head this past week from a boy accidentally tossing a rock at her. Though the daughter is perfectly fine now, the bloody scene haunted the mother for nights and she could sympathize with me as I shared my story. I guess there will be many more accidents to come and I am to get myself ready for it, though we are extra diligent now in warning Caleb not to run in the house and just dash his head against things. God is gracious in all of this.

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