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Memories

One memory that could make you cry was the memory I have about the day my daughter got hurt. My oldest daughter, Amanda was only 3 and a half years old. The baby was about 15 months. She had just learned how to walk and run. The girls were playing together stacking peek-a-blocks on the carpet, and they were having lots of fun. My husband had just came home from work and it was time for me to leave for work. I had looked over at the pile of blocks on the carpet and thought "should I make the kids pick up the blocks?" unfortunately I did not. I got in my car and headed off to work. My routine is I talk to my husband on the way to work, on my cell phone. I had not gotten far from the house when I heard a blood curdling scream come through the phone and then the phone had gone dead. At this point I was in a full panic. I turned the car around in the middle of sommerset road. My cell phone rang, it was my husband. In a scared and shaken up voice he said "Amanda has had an accident, she has knocked out her teeth and I don't know what to do! Will you please come back and help me!"

I entered my gate going 40 miles an hour, how I did not crash god only knows. As I walked into my house I saw a puddle of blood on the carpet with a trail leading to the bathroom. There stood my baby girl standing on a phone book crying with a swollen face and blood pouring out of her mouth. I was horrified. The only thing going through my mind was that it was all my fault because I did not make them pick up the blocks. Amanda had chased her baby sister and fell face first into the blocks they had previously been stacking. She knocked front three baby teeth outward and caused tissue damage to her jaw. We spent 6 hours in the emergency room. They had Amanda on codine for almost 10 days until she could get dental surgery repair the damage. She had a pediatric parcial at the age of 3 and a half. They said she may not get her permanent teeth. About 3 years later she cut her adult teeth. We were very happy that was a true blessing.