Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Little Sophie

Quite the day.
Our little Sophie Muffin dodged behind the van and Macy's aunt and uncle's house this morning and was hit by a car. She was thrown under a parked car on the street, which I am told she crawled out from under.
Macy's cousin Alana called me at work and said the Ambulance was taking her to the Huntington Hospital. I bolted from my desk without a word to anyone. In other news a huge storm system was descending on us and it picked the moment I left to start blowing down trees and torrential rain, taking out the power from my office all the way out of town, cars lined up everywhere, no stop lights. About the time I was to the edge of Fort Wayne Alana called me to tell me to turn back because they were bringing her into Fort Wayne to the Pediatric Trauma Unit at Lutheran, if I wasn't already freaked out... That did it.
Longest 20 minutes of my life!
When the ambulance showed up I could see Macy's cousin's wife riding shot gun, I popped the back door open and jumped on in and she did not look good. By this time family and friends across the country were informed and praying for her. There was a full pediatric trauma unit of about 12 people waiting for her. She looked pretty bad. Her jaw looked disjointed and her chin was split open down to the muscle. The initial comments and assumptions where that her jaw was broken and they expected internal damage and head trauma. When she and I got back from the CTC (Cat Scan) we had the missionaries, Uncle Chad, and two of the three Dr. we go to church with waiting (Dr. Wes Bott and Dr. Eric Swinson AKA "Look, it's Celeste's Daddy, does he work here?").
The test results came back on our little miracle child and she didn't have a single broken bone, no internal bleeding, no concussion... No broken jaw even. Uncle Ryan (Dr. Hart, child dentist) said what may have happened was a dislocation.
However... Our friend Wes (Dr. Bott) came to ask me if I knew Sophie didn't have a left kidney... NOPE! (Sidenote: Macy had a kidney removed as a baby, and their guess, it's something genetic. No worries though, shouldn't cause her any trouble, Macy has been fine her whole life on one kidney. Wes and Eric got to observe the suture and I think learned a trick on stitches. She fell asleep while being stitched. When she woke up she said "I have to tell you something." Everyone paused to see what she would say... "I got runned over by a car. You have to just hold me." Talk about breaking your heart!!! Poor baby! The trauma surgeon pointed out the black on the side of her face looked like tire mark. We are still unsure which car, but we feel lucky she was thrown into another car rather than onto the asphalt which is really unforgiving.
She's resting comfortably in the Pediatric ICU tonight for observation.
Only Super Sophie could walk away from something like this. Everyone keeps saying she must be surrounded by angels! They say they get these cases all the time and they are almost never this happy of an ending. She should recover very quickly.
Thank you all for your faith and prayers!

2 comments:

  1. BRENT! Things like this scare me to be a parent, so glad everything turned out good!

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  2. I think this calls for a nother danceing hampster card

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