[blparent] Feeling Bad Today

[Dianna Alley]

The bump could have formed over time too if some one had of looked they 
might seen it red but who knows my child gets them too.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at msn.com>
To: "Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2012 1:37 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] Feeling Bad Today


> Jeri, please don't get down on yourself for this.  Like you said yourself, 
> it could have happened to anybody, and it has happened to anybody who has 
> parented a child through the toddler years.  Your daughter is going to be 
> fine.  You were there for her, putting ice on her bump as soon as you knew 
> about it, and that will be enough.  A month hardly goes by that my 
> daughter doesn't have a scrape or a bruise on her face.  I know it feels 
> bad, but perk up and keep forging ahead.
>
> Jo Elizabeth
>
> Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may 
> kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at 
> evening.--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Jeri Milton
> Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2012 12:23 PM
> To: 'Blind Parents Mailing List'
> Subject: [blparent] Feeling Bad Today
>
> Hi everyone. I hope you all had a safe and fun Halloween. We had fun but
> something happened and I'm feeling awful about it. Katlyn, my daughter, 
> was
> running back to meet me at the end of a drive way, she was so cute, 
> giggling
> away all excited that she got some candy. She missed the little bump at 
> the
> end of the driveway and fell. She hit her head pretty hard. I immediately
> picked her up and was feeling all over her face for any bumps or blood. I
> didn't feel anything so I just told her that she was going to be ok and we
> moved on, but she cried for quite a while. When she stopped crying she 
> just
> told me that her hand was hurting. My friend that was with us only saw a
> little scrape on her hand, but nothing on her face. Well, later after we
> were home she was crying because she didn't want to go to bed. I was
> brushing her hair out of her eyes and felt it. A large goose egg bump 
> right
> above her eyes! I felt terrible that I hadn't felt it earlier in the 
> night.
> She probably had such a head ache which also explains her grumpy mood.
> Normally Kate loves to play with everyone, but after she fell she just
> stayed really winey. We had a late night together on the couch with ice on
> her head. She's doing fine today, but I'm just feeling bad about it. I 
> know
> this can happen to anyone sited or not, but naturally I feel bad because I
> couldn't see it. Maybe it's my turn to feel sorry for myself today. Have 
> any
> of you experienced something like this as well?
>
>
>
> Jeri
>
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