On Tuesday Jillian decided it would be fun to ride one of our rolling chairs down the three stairs to the playroom. Unfortunately it did not turn out to be that much fun. I was in the future twins bedroom texturing walls and they were all down in the playroom playing when she came up bleeding all over herself....and the biggest yuckiest looking nose I had seen! She scraped the skin off the tip of her nose and the knocked it to the right. It was huge and blue immediately. I tried to keep ice on it and finally took her to see her pediatrician and he said he thought the septum was bent and she needed 
to see an ENT ASAP. So we did that this morning at 8AM. He says that she may indeed have a broken nose but it is too hard to really know until the swelling goes down more. Since she is so young we have 3-4 weeks to decided if she will need surgery to repair it or not. Mostly we just watch and wait but getting her to the doctor this morning was something in and of itself. I went in to wake up and brought her into our bedroom she looked like she had thrown up a littl bit just around her neckline..weird. So I was getting her dressed and she began throwing up again..lovely. I changed her clothes and we got a bucket and headed to the doctor. We were 10 minutes late due to all the unexpected vomiting on her part and she also puked right as we got there. The ENT said this was due to all the drainage. Nice.....she has not done it again but what fun!!!! Anyway...the fun....so hopefully she will be fine and anything dangerous like a hematoma has been ruled out for now so we just watch and wait. Good times. For her part, she is largely unaffected and remains our Jillian. She just looks bad...LOL I guess drama just follows us wherever we go!
to see an ENT ASAP. So we did that this morning at 8AM. He says that she may indeed have a broken nose but it is too hard to really know until the swelling goes down more. Since she is so young we have 3-4 weeks to decided if she will need surgery to repair it or not. Mostly we just watch and wait but getting her to the doctor this morning was something in and of itself. I went in to wake up and brought her into our bedroom she looked like she had thrown up a littl bit just around her neckline..weird. So I was getting her dressed and she began throwing up again..lovely. I changed her clothes and we got a bucket and headed to the doctor. We were 10 minutes late due to all the unexpected vomiting on her part and she also puked right as we got there. The ENT said this was due to all the drainage. Nice.....she has not done it again but what fun!!!! Anyway...the fun....so hopefully she will be fine and anything dangerous like a hematoma has been ruled out for now so we just watch and wait. Good times. For her part, she is largely unaffected and remains our Jillian. She just looks bad...LOL I guess drama just follows us wherever we go!
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speaking as a person who has had a deviated septum (the think it broke during my way out of the birth canal) and being someone who had multiple severe sinus infections and had to have said septum surgically fixed, I would say if there is even the slightlest risk that she's damaged her septum..get it fixed now! It's a horrible surgery to deal with as an adult. I'd rather go natural childbirth again than go thru the recovery of that surgery again as an adult. I hope she feels better soon!
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