I was sitting on the couch holding the little gal I nanny every day while Jack was screaming and trying to clamber his way up to me. Of course, his crying caused her to cry. So, I was trying to hush two little babes, when I saw Eva leap off the rocker in our living room onto the floor face first. She screamed super loud and so I set the crying babies on the floor and rushed over to her. I asked if she was ok, and then proceeded to examine her nose and mouth. No blood from her nose, so that was good. Then I checked her mouth. There was a little blood, but nothing to worry about. I then had her tilt her head up so I could look at the top of her mouth and that was where I lost it. There was a bump on her hard palate right behind her teeth. It was a weird color and I was sure something was broken or she'd bitten off her tongue (nope checked that, she was fine). Enter the reason I could never be in the medical profession: I went super pale suddenly and couldn't bare to look any closer at her injury. I shakily put her on the couch and then picked up my phone...and it was dead. Panic set in, I could tell I was losing it and I knew Eva could tell and so she was freaking out. I plugged my phone in and then went over to her to ask how she was doing. She looked at me and tearfully said, "I can't talk" in a weird voice. Of course that had me worried more so I paced around not knowing what to do with myself until my phone finally charged enough for me to call the doctor. During all of this all three of the kids were screaming in the background.
I got through to the doctors office and they said to have me come in right away. I loaded up Eva and headed over. They took us back to a waiting room and took Eva's vitals and then the nurse had her look at the ceiling to check the top of her mouth. After a few seconds she said all looked normal, but that she would send in the doctor anyway. At this point I was like, "what?! You don't see that crazy bump up there in her mouth?" After the nurse left the room I had Eva sit on my lap so I could look into her mouth myself. Much to my surprise it was all back to normal. Well, almost she had two loose front teeth, but everything else was the same. I looked at her and asked if she had swallowed anything. She replied cheerfully, "Blue starburst, pink starburst. My daddy" Haha...I suddenly realized that Morgan had given her a couple starbursts about 10 minutes before the said accident and what I saw when I looked in her mouth was the blue starburst pushed up on her hard palate! I was slightly embarrassed to tell my story to the doctor and nurses, but also very grateful that there wasn't anything more serious going on. Just another crazy mommy moment for the books.
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