Sonya's Almost Skull Fracture

Sonya had a bad fall yesterday evening around 6pm while she was trying to climb our end table in the family room (this is her favorite spot and I am starting to feel like I want to get rid of it :0 ). Anyways, she pulled out the bottom drawer, pulled up to a stand while in it and then lost her grip, fell and knocked her head real hard on the table and then the drawer as well. She cried hard for about 10 minutes and then calmed down and started playing again, being her usual self. I didn't think anything of it since she seemed fine again, but then later last night she gave me the worst time going to bed, started holding her head and screaming "Boo Booooo!!! Ow Ow Ow!!!" She is always the perfect angel when it comes to bed time so this really worried me. I felt her noggin and found a giant egg shaped lump right where she had hit it earlier. Man, did I feel stupid for not taking her to the ER right away!

I called my husband and had him drive 45 minutes home from work at about 1am (he's a 3rd shift worker) to be here for the older girls who were tucked in bed asleep and then took Sonya in to the ER by myself. The place was empty... thank God!... but apparently there was an insane rush of people just before we arrived because it took them a half hour to clean up a room for us! The on call doctor, who has seen us for every situation so far came in quickly and gave Sonya a sedative (Ketamine and something else) to calm her down for the CT scan. Sonya was soooo loopy and fought sleep the whole way! She even kept raising her hands and arms up as if to say "no" while she received her CT scan! Talk about strong willed!

The scan results came back after about an hour. They send all of their tests out electronically to a place in Missouri that has a few hundred Radiologists sitting there reading them all and they then send the results back. There was no fracture! She must be hard headed as well as strong willed! When all was said and done we finally went to bed together at about 5am. I'm exhausted as I had to get up to get Zoe off to school this morning at 7:30am. Sonya got up at 8 this morning all cheerful and is now zonked out on the family room floor taking a well needed nap!We are supposed to follow up with our ortho, I will be calling them shortly.