OUCH!!!!

I am going to give you a heads up on the pics below. They are not pretty. On Thursday, November 6th, Megan went to a friends house around 4 pm. A little after 4 pm the neighorbors kids came knocking on our door. When I answered the oldest said that Megan was bleeding. I was thinking that she fell and scrapped her knee. When I got to the neighorbors house I found the mom kneeling over Megan and holding a papertowel on her head. Megan was covered in blood. The mom turned to me and said that she has a cut about 2" on her forehead. She was playing in her friends room on his bunk bed and fell off and hit her head. We don't know what she hit there wasn't any sign of bleeding anywhere in the room. The only blood was coming out of the room. I turned to Destiny (who had followed me over) to run to get my cellphone. I called Matt to see where he was, He said he was in American Fork. I told him to meet me at the doctors office because Megan cut her head open.

We got to the doctors office and they put us in their surgery room. Megan's doctor looked at the cut and said she needs to go to the Emerency Room now and she will need a Plastic Surgeon. When the doctor was looking at her thats the first time I saw the cut. It was 8" long and 2" wide you could see her skull. I even asked to make sure I knew what I was looking at. We got to the Emerency Room with me driving 60 in a 40. When we got there the stupid ER nurse said that they will look at the cut and decide then if Megan needs a Plastic guy. I was mad. They took one look at it and said call the Plastic guy, but before we do anything we need to do a CATSCAN to make sure there isn't any fractures. They did the CATSCAN and there wasn't any fractures but, there is a spot on the back of her head that could be a tumor or nothing but, we need to take her to see a Nuriologist to make sure.

The Plastic guy came in. He looked like they found him on a street corner. I will tell you something he was the best doctor I ever knew. He was kind and he told Matt and I everything he was doing and why. Yes, Matt and I where in the room while he stiched up Megan. They put her to sleep to do the stiches. That is what this picture is. While she was asleep she stuck her tongue out. At one time she had her lips in the kissing form and was making kissing noises. I told Matt she was giving him kisses.

Before the doctor could sew her up he had to cut some of her tissue because the cut was beveled and it needed to be flat and it was jagged and needed to be smooth. It was wierd to see him do that.

He had to start from the inside out. He gave her one row of stitches and another until he got to the outer surface. Megan has three rows of stitches. When he was done he told us that he doesn't like to count his stitches like most doctors but, if you count the outer ones there is about 2x to 3x that on the inside. After they cleaned her up Matt looked and said that there is about 60-70 stitches on the outside. We are thinking there might be a total of 200 or more.

This picture is when he finished up. Destiny said she looks dead in this picture. Then we waited for her to wake up and made sure she was ok and then brought her home. Friday she spent all day in bed with us in/out of sleep. Today, Saturday she seems to be back to her old self. What amazes Matt and I is how strong she is being through this whole thing. She didn't really cry and she didn't throw a fit like I thought she would.

There are more pictures. I have them on my camera but, for some reason I can't find the thing that lets me hook it up to my computer. As soon as I find it I will post them. I know you all are busy but, if you could take about 5 mins. of your time and send her a note or card she would love it.