{"id":363,"date":"2009-03-04T19:53:52","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T03:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/?p=363"},"modified":"2009-03-04T19:55:39","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T03:55:39","slug":"beware-the-vampires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/beware-the-vampires\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware the Vampires"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago, it was my niece’s birthday and she had a sleep over. <\/p>\n

My two girls went for the party and everything was all fairies and roses and was going along fabulously.<\/p>\n

We had some plans that got all re-arranged and we ended up asking my mother-in-law to pick up the girls and she (being the amazing person that she is) agreed. We talked to my sister and all was set up and organized in the exact way that I like it to be. You know, wrapped up with a big red bow and seeming all perfect.<\/p>\n

My mother-in-law was actually on her way and had just connected with my sister and mentioned that she’d be there in just a few minutes. That sounded great to everyone and somehow…….someway……in the few minutes between when they chatted on the phone and my mother-inlaw showed up…..everything turned crazily upside down.<\/p>\n

Apparently the girls were out in the yard bouncing on the trampoline when my niece went all vampire on Xandra and tried to bite a chunk out of her head.<\/p>\n

It, being a good head wound, bled ALL OVER THE FREAKING PLACE and scared the crap outta all the girls. They came running to the house screaming and crying. Xani was holding her head and Bri was holding her chin and…..well….it was not a happy situation.<\/p>\n

Chelle got the situation sorted out and Xani was laying on the couch bleeding nicely when Mum arrived…..and after some discussion it was determined that the wound was gaping entirely too much and she should probably have a few stitches.<\/p>\n

They got to spend 4 hours in the Maple Ridge ER and came out with this…….<\/p>\n

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Pretty, Isn’t it?<\/p>\n

Apparently, according to Mum, the ER Doctor was AMAZING. He was so gentle and careful that Xandra didn’t end up with a giant hack mark in her hair. He didn’t have to cut any of the hair around the wound, he just took extra time and stitched carefully and for that I am so grateful. <\/p>\n

She was allowed to take a shower that first night to wash all the blood out of her hair, but then she wans’t allowed to wash her hair for the next 4 days – as they were dissolving stiches. Nice!!! And wouldn’t you know that week was the week that she was doing swimming for PE at school. We solved that problem by getting her a swim cap, and by the end of the week, the stitches had dissolved and her head is all better.<\/p>\n

She only has the giant nasty scar, but fortunately it is in the scalp and not on her face.<\/p>\n

She is such a brave little girl. She didn’t flip out or cry while they were doing the stitches or anything. She told me later that she was just trying to be as calm as she could. What a little cutie. <\/p>\n

This evens up the score for the girls. Now both of my girls have had stitches on their heads. I’m hoping that the boys don’t try and even things up on their end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago, it was my niece’s birthday and she had a sleep over. My two girls went for the party and everything was all fairies and roses and was going along fabulously. We had some plans that got all re-arranged and we ended up asking my mother-in-law to pick up the girls and … Continue reading “Beware the Vampires”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,8,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crap","category-health","category-xandra"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}