My daughter (aged 2) threw a tantrum near a window, tripped over and her head went through the window, deeply cutting her forehead. The next thing I knew I was crying in the bathroom, holding the two edges of the cut together, trying to control the bleeding and trying to think of what to do next.
The blood was everywhere and my older child (aged 4-1/2) was crying hysterically at seeing all of this unfold. I didn’t know if there was any glass in her forehead or eye and was scared to look, but really needed padding to help control the bleeding, which I did. My older child, through tears, was telling me that I “have to call the doctor to fix her!” which is when I instructed her to get the phone and rang 000 immediately.
The ambulance arrived not long afterward and most of the bleeding had stopped. We went to the hospital where we were informed she’d need plastic surgery which was booked for the next day. It’s some months down the track, the scar is looking less red, and even now when I’m doing her hair and she sees the scar in the mirror she mentions when “I bopped my head on the window”. Thank God I knew what to do though, as I was so panicked that I could have froze, instead I know that I helped a potentially disastrous situation turn out the best it possibly could.
