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Family Forum / Parenting / Parenting / March 20065yr old Girl hit forehead on metal table
Situation: About 2.5 weeks ago my wife and I had taken our daughter to a neighborhood bookstore. My 5yr old daughter while getting out of a raised chair lost her balance and fell out hitting her head on a neighboring metal shelf. Point of impact was above her eyebrow on right side of forehead. What followed was a 'goose egg' size knot. Within 24hrs she was seen by an ER doctor who stated based on her Neurological responses 'HE' felt nothing was wrong. As I stated we are almost at week #3 and the knot has subsided about 60% but I'm noticing an indentation around the area of impact from the fall. My concern is will this visually noticable indentation subside or could there been some rupturing of cells below the skin that are causing this 'sunken in' area of skin?? My wife thinks I'm over reacting but you know it's better to be safe than sorry. I have all the faith in the world that the Lord has healed my daughter. But I also believe he has blessed Doctor's / Nurses etc.. with skills to help people. I'm trying to identify someone who may of had their little one experience something similar. I have asked my wife to take our daughter for an x-ray and hopefully she'll do that tomorrow. I work long days therefore me taking her would be a challenge. Again, I'm just reaching out to see if a visually noticed indentation is something that disapates with time or are there other things that we should be looking at? Much appreciated for you reading / responding to this post. Alex California > Again, I'm just reaching out to see if a visually noticed indentation > is something that disapates with time or are there other things that we > should be looking at? > > Much appreciated for you reading / responding to this post. My aunt was hit on the head by a golf ball. She didn't suffer any brain damage, but she had a permanent crater in her head. >> Again, I'm just reaching out to see if a visually noticed indentation >> is something that disapates with time or are there other things that we [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > My aunt was hit on the head by a golf ball. She didn't suffer any brain > damage, but she had a permanent crater in her head. My daughter too has a permanent dent where she whacked her head hard as a young child. You'd have to be looking right at the spot from the right angle in the right light, but it's definitely there. Bizby > Situation: > [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > Alex > California DS had his scalp sliced right up from just below his hair line up about an inch passed his hair line. An hour of surgery by a plastic surgeon and about 20 stitches, he still has some dents and odd-looking parts to his forehead. This is now 2 months later, and it's still healing, and it does look better each day, and looks 100x better than it did on Day 1, but still a ways to go. DS is also 5 years old - his 5th birthday was 2 days before this happened. Kids heal so well, it seems, but as with anyone, healing does take time. I was originally told there would be little to no scars in the end, although this I do not believe. I would say that it's still fairly soon, and that her head is still healing. You might still end up with a small little dent in that spot, but still, I say give it time and eventually it should become less and less noticeable. My brother, when he was 3, pulled a mug of boiled tea on him at the babysitter's house. Babysitter put the mug on top of the wall unit - high up - to answer the door, thinking it would be safe up there from my brother, and definitely was a lot safer than on the coffee table or kitchen table, but he managed to climb up in a matter of seconds, pull it down on him and have 2nd and 3d degree burns on his chest. One part of his chest - on the top left hand corner above his breast, there's a small patch that did not heal. It was the area that the healing skin kept ripping off each time there was a dressing change - at this time, doctors were on strike and he was not seen in a hospital or a place where he could have had better care... He was at the drop-in Medical clinic. Almost 17 years later, that patch of skin is barely noticeable, and you can only notice it if you know it's there and in the summer if he has a tan. Kids heal. I would think that any dent in your daughter will be minor in time, even if it looks horrible right now! > Situation: > [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > > Much appreciated for you reading / responding to this post. I have a scar on my nose where I was attacked by a deer. Actually the deer was only about 10" tall and wooden-it fell off a bookcase onto me, when I was about 3. The scar's about 3/8" long and quite deep, but no one's ever noticed it without me pointing it out, and it's never bothered me either. Debbie |
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