Rylee and the Zipper day 3

Well, yesterday Rylee felt good enough that she kept trying to play basketball. Grandma and Grandpa Phair came over from Medford to see her and Uncle Nic and Uncle Craig and Aunt Molly live in town and came to see her. Lots of calls and emails from friends and family. She loved seeing and hearing people were thinking about her.

She got bored having to sit and lay and rest yesterday. She was swollen, but good. Today, she is more sore and swollen. She is starting to bruise a bit under her right eye. Her lip looks better though. She was trying to get a cold before this happened and now it seems to have hit. She is coughing a bit and from banging her nose up she is still stuffy (she sounds like she has her nose plugged when she talks to you) but now she keeps sneezing, which makes everything hurt. She is already sick of soft foods and she will be eating those for awhile yet to come. She is in good spirits over all, but it is a lot harder as her parents to see her hurt.

Plus, I think we have de-thawed enough that the worry over how her mouth will heal and if she will need surgeries and grafts have set in. Although we are trying not to think about that yet. She is just such a beautiful girl and of course we don't want anything to disfigure her. Lyle is going to give her a blessing today. We should have done it yesterday when all of the family was here but didn't think about it until they had all gone. She is a special little girl and she is just handling this so well.

I am so glad she isn't a whiner by nature. She is just so tough and laid back about it all. We are so grateful she didn't get hurt worse.

Rylee and the Zipper

So interesting day today. Went to work, came home. I was home for 15 minutes and the phone rings. The kids Elementary school Secretary says
" Mrs. Nielson, Rylee has had an accident on the playground at recess. She put her tooth through her lip and her nose is gushing blood."
I, of course, rush to the school where her nose is definitely gushing and her top lip is huge and she looks totally macabre. She is saying she needs to puke and gets pale and sweaty and starts to not be able to keep herself upright. We lay her down and the nurse shows me Rylee's top gums. It looks to us like she has a big gash in them clear across the front top 4 teeth. The nurse tells me how worried she is that maybe the nerves have been killed and those 4 teeth will darken or that they might be loose and I should get her into a dentist.

So I call the dentist we have been going to and they are, of course, closed because it is Friday. ( I needed my Brother in law Jeff's Emergency dental clinic right about then)I try to call the open door clinic who is supposed to take everyone and they say they can't see us to call the emergency number for our dentist. OK, so remember that I just said EMERGENCY number. I call and after having to push about 10 numbers to get connected to a person it says they are closed for lunch. BECAUSE NO ONE WOULD DARE HAVE AN EMERGENCY BETWEEN 12 and 1!!!!
So I frantically call my friend Stacy, who's husband is a dentist to see if he will be coming home for lunch, and if he can just take a look at it and tell me if her teeth are going to die. She says he isn't coming home and she will call him. In the mean time I just head to her house so she can tell me if I am freaking out over nothing! (I needed reassurance!)
She sees it talks to her husband and sends me to his office. Remember at this point I think it is just a cut on her gums...
So I go and he squeezes us in. It is probably good it is him because Rylee knows him pretty well and we all love him. He gets her in the chair and I should mention, she is still bleeding a ton.
He cleans her up a bit, stitches her lip up as she has torn her "Frenulum??" the part that connects your lip to your gums. So hers is no longer connected. 4 or 5 stitches in her lip. Then he looks at her gums. He literally pulls them down out of the top of her mouth. When it is all cleaned up you can see she has no gums around those top front 4 teeth. He pulls them down and stitches and loops the suture around her teeth to hold it down. It is still not quite together between her 2 front teeth but will hopefully heal. (If it doesn't heal all together or has major scarring then we will have to wait til she is a bit older and a periodontist would take grafts from the back roof of her mouth and sraft it to her front gums. I am sure that wouln't be pleasant or cheap, so we hope it heals well.) While he is stitching her nose and gums are all bleading everywhere. She has 11 sutures in total and it took an hour and a half probably. He told her not to smile or brush her teeth so she doesn't mess it up. He said it was probably the worst dental trauma he has had to deal with.

It was horrific, I watched him do it all and Rylee squeezed my hand. The numbing was really the worst for her, but she was a trooper. Lee (Stacy's husband) was INCREDIBLE!! On top of that, he wouldn't charge me, and he and Stacy brought Rylee flowers and treats tonight to make sure he and Rylee were still friends. We owe them big time. Gonna have to find out his favorite desserts and keep him well stocked! We love them and hope they stay in K-Falls for awhile longer.

The picture is not of when it was fresh because I didn't think about it until it was mostly stitched but I would have had to let go of her hand to take it and all I had was my phone which is what this was taken with at the regular doctor's office after to make sure she was okay everywhere else. Tonight it actually looks a lot better. Rylee's nose is swollen, we are lucky she didn't break it. It will probably all be bruised and nasty tomorrow.

Oh and how Rylee did all of this... There is a toy on the playground they call the zipper. It has a handle you hang from and it slides back and forth like a mini zip line. She jumped for the handle and missed and landed with her mouth and nose on the wood casing around it..... We discussed not playing on that toy anymore and it was all her idea!!






Yes, as you can tell from how I wrote I am still a little worked up abouth the whole thing! :) But hey, I updated my blog again and it hasn't even been a week!

Coupons! Coupons! Coupons!

I know, I know, I never post, unless its about Twilight stuff, but I promise this is nothing Twilight!


My friend Stacy got me into couponing, and as she has more kids than me, I figured I should listen. So this is the deal I got today!! SO excited!!

So it is a picture from my phone camera because I couldn't find batteries for my regular camera. Let me tell you all that is on that table:

10 Betty Crocker cake mixes

10 Betty Crocker brownie mixes

4 boxes of GoGurts

1 box Yoplait dessert type yogurt

2 Boxes Red Baron pizza

2 boxes Capri Suns 1 24ct Kraft Singles Cheese

2 boxes Cinnamon Toast Crunch

1 gallon of milk

2 Arm&Hammer Laundry Detergent

Regular and sale price for all of this from my receipt:

Before the Safeway card 97.48

With the Safeway card 75.25

With my coupons 24.57 (76% savings $75.90)

Can you believe that!!!! Needless to say I wish I would have figure this out a VERY long time ago, but I guess better late than never!! Now not that I would ever pay that much for all of this I am such a bargain hunter. But still, just the sale prices were good, but the coupons saved me so much $$$$$$$!

I know I am a spaz, but I was excited so all of you get to hear about it! :)