Lilly's Accident At School

This past Tuesday at about 1:oo p.m., I was at McDonald's with Sam, Vivian, my mom and my niece, Ava. I received a call on my cell phone from Pam, the school secretary stating that Lilly had had an accident on the playground and had hurt her "private part" ( this is what Lilly calls it) and that (obviously) nobody there was comfortable checking to see if she was ok. So, my mom kept the younger kids and I went right away to school, thinking the whole way that it's probably no big deal. She'll be ok. Who would ever think that a kid's " private part " could get hurt badly on playground equipment. Boy, was I wrong. When I got to school, Pam said Lilly had been to the bathroom 3-4 times already. She came out of the bathroom right at that moment and I knew right then it was going to be much worse than I could ever have imagined. Her face was red and swollen, she was crying uncontrollably, and you could see she was scared to death. We went into the bathroom and her pants were just full of blood. It was so incredibly hard not to show any emotion and try to make her feel as if everything was ok. I called the doctor's office immediately and we got in right away. By the time we got there, her " private part " was swollen to probably 3 or 4 times the normal size and she had a tremendous amount of bruising. They immediately sent us to the ER. Adam met us at the ER where they started an IV, and eventually put her under " concious sedation " she was awake but would remember nothing and felt some pain but very little ( they had also given her morphine ). They proceded to clean her up, do an exam and put in a foley catheter because she was so swollen they were afraid she wouldn't be able to urinate. They gave us an antibiotic, vicodin for pain and a dressing and we were on our way home. Obviously, not as fast as it sounds. She didn't sleep much that night. Her pain was severe. The next day, the bleeding began to increase, she couldn't walk and by mid-afternoon she was literally screaming from the pain ( not even the vicodin was helping ). We took her back into the ER and she was so scared. She knew ( or thought she knew ) what was going to happen. She was " looked at" ( I mean literally looked at, she was so hysterical they didn't want to do much more than that ) by the ER doctor and they called in the on-call gynecologist. Luckily the gynecologist was a female and she was incredible. She cleared an OR for Lilly, mostly at first to do exploratory " surgery " if you could call it that. More like an exam I guess. But Lilly was under general anesthesia, that way she could really get a good look and find out exactly what was wrong. Without going into details, it was much worse than they originally thought. She had to have stitches, and there was one spot that they couldn't stitch, that just has to heal on its own. There will be no permanent damage and she should heal well. The doctor compared the healing to childbirth. The healing should be fairly quick. But in the meantime, she has the foley catheter for 6 days, she's on vicoden for pain, she has a tremendous amount of difficulty walking, sitting and at times standing. She stayed overnight in the hospital and didn't sleep there hardly at all with everyone ( nurses, doctors ) coming in all the time. Now that she is home, it's better. She slept 12 hours last night and even slept on her side for awhile. That is awesome because she has been unable to bend at the waist or knees very well because of the pain since this happened. She's not eating great but is drinking good. I'm not sure how much school she's going to miss. It takes her 10-15 minutes to walk from the bedroom to the family room right now. That's probably 20 feet. She can't sit for long periods of time and tires easily. She has the catheter out on Monday so that's good news. She is very quiet and doesn't say much. I can't imagine how traumatizing it must have been to have this happen or how it's going to affect her in the future. Not to mention the fact that she's worried about being embarrassed at school. We've talked to the school and we're going to try to keep most of it quiet from the kids. I just hope we see the old carefree Lilly come back. Anyway, we ask for your prayer that Lilly will heal quickly and that we will all have patience and do what is best for Lilly.