It’s another slow day, so I thought I’d write about yet another thing I know I would have written about had I been blogging when it happened 
So – this is “Pre-Blog” or PB. To see why I’ve been writing PB posts, see this post.
This happened in January…and again, even though I KNOW she’s okay, it still makes me a little sick to my stomach thinking about it. I’ve copied a lot from an email I wrote to friends and family about it. (Sorry if you’ve read it before!) And yes…that does read “Second” visit … Here’s where I wrote about the first one.
Poor Grandpa nearly had a heart attack (yes, the entire fam damily was there to celebrate the Twins’ 3rd birthday – some good pictures from THAT celebration. oy)… Before we could celebrate though, there was another Emergency Room trip for Maggie. *sigh* At least this time we didn’t need an ambulance! She was running around again and fell face-first into the coffee table. Bloody nose, bloody gums, big fat lip, tooth knocked out of place. Fun. Glad the fam was here to take care of the other two kids though! (I’m sure that would have been its own blog post…)
After sitting for hours watching a fake fish tank, the doctors in the ER told us to expect the dentist to pull the tooth…Geez. that would mean the poor kid would be toothless for at least 3 years!!
We had tried to call a dentist we sort of knew (someone from the church we had *just* joined) before we left for the hospital, but she didn’t get back to us until the next day. When we finally got to talk with her, she said that they’d want to try to keep the tooth in for as long as possible…and that we wouldn’t need to bring her in to the dentist unless something changed with the tooth – it gets looser or turns black or something. We needed to make a 3-year-old appointment for both of them anyway, so I just made sure to do it within the next few days (I had just switched jobs and was still waiting for my new insurance card to show up…)
We went in, and sure enough – they said “we’ll keep an eye on it.” But they didn’t want to pull it or anything.
Maggie’s tooth is still out of place – hanging down lower than the rest – and she’s even bumped it again (on Burke’s head of all things) but it hasn’t done anything else yet. And she’s eating with no problems. We’ve had 3 dentist appointments since, just to keep an eye on it…and that’s all they want to do! No toothless wonder! *phew*
We got lucky that she still has the tooth, but I’m still waiting for DSS to show up at our door…
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The Zimmer Zoo 
I COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND! That feeling of being sick when you think about it? I totally gotcha. We had a very similar experience with my daughter when she was 4 but she lost the teeth. Two of them Snaggle toothed for 2 1/2 years. It was hard for a mom of a daughter cause you want her to look so perfectly gorgeous and I was afraid that it would look, well you know how it looks. Too vain I guess. The worst was being in the room when they pulled those two teeth. I wish that I could forget it. she is 12 now.
I’ll keep your kiddo in my prayers that all will be well with her tooth and that she will continue eating and making it fine!
Jen
My one and only trip to the ER with my kids was when I was playing “tag” with my 4 year old boy. He ran by me and I grabbed him to tickle him and then we would do it all over again. Well, one time I missed him and only grabbed his shirt. He teetered off balance and slammed his head into the corner of the door frame. Yup, I cracked my kids head open. And we were all looking our worst that day…really scummy if you know what I mean. 4 staples to the cranium later we were all back home and okay! I still get a yucky feeling over it and he is now 11!