Miller's Mouth Injury

Back about a month ago, we went on a family outing one evening after dinner to get some ice cream.  We were letting the kids play and walk around an outdoor fountain area when Miller lost her balance and fell.  She hit her mouth on a concrete step and was hurt pretty badly!  It was one of the scariest moments we have had yet because all we saw was tons of blood gushing from her mouth, but we couldn't tell exactly what was bleeding.  We have never seen her cry as much as she did, and we knew she was in tons of pain.  By the time we got home the bleeding had pretty much stopped, but her mouth was so swollen that we still couldn't really see how bad the damage was.

I took this picture about 10 minutes before she fell

Poor Miller the morning after her injury

She had a really hard time sleeping that first night because she has always slept with pacis, and we decided to let her have it.  That wasn't such a great decision because the more she sucked on it, the more she bled.  I took her in to the doctor the next morning.  He was surprised that she didn't lose any teeth or need stitches.  After a couple of days the swelling went down enough for us to see that the source of all the bleeding was biting a chunk out of her tongue... ouch!

Now that about a month has passed you can barely tell anything has happened.  Her two front top teeth did get pushed a little further up into her gums, but her tongue is almost back to normal.  Poor Miller had a hard time there for several days.  We ended up going ahead and taking her pacis away completely since she didn't need to be sucking on them while her mouth was healing.  I think that was harder on her momma than it was on her! :)  We are so thankful things were not any worse!