Ouch! Not Again!

Last summer, Maliya split her lip open and got stitches. This summer:Yesterday morning (Saturday), Maliya went to Costco with Brian. While Brian was looking at some items, Maliya (of course) started climbing up on things and jumping off. Right as Brian was turning around to tell her to stop being "too crazy," Maliya started crying and saying that she had gotten hurt. She was bleeding from her tongue, and so Brian assumed that she had bit her tongue. But when the blood got cleaned up a little, we realized that it would be difficult for her teeth to leave a wound quite that shape. Maliya says that a box cut her tongue, and also that something on the floor cut it. So, we really aren't sure exactly what happened.

When it first happened, Brian called me to ask what we should do. We decided that not much can be done for tongue wounds, so I told him to buy her some ice cream to "ice" her wound. Which he did. She licked and licked that ice cream, but did not swallow anything. She just drooled it all down her front. When she got home she got a couple of popsicles, as well. She did not eat lunch or dinner, yesterday, as her tongue just hurt too badly. She hardly drank anything, and wouldn't even swallow her own saliva. She just drooled and drooled all day long. When she went too bed, last night, she just started crying that she was hungry. Poor thing. But there was nothing we could do. I just kept telling her to go to sleep so that her tongue would feel better and she could eat in the morning.

She has been doing much better, today. Her tongue is no longer bleeding (it bled all day, yesterday), and she is no longer drooling everywhere. She has been drinking pretty well and even eating some yogurt, pudding, mac & cheese, and even nibbled away a couple of graham crackers. Thank goodness.