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jennickels) wrote2011-09-01 05:37 pm
jennickels) wrote2011-09-01 05:37 pm
the saga of brenna's ears
If anyone cares to know, the saga of Brenna's ears continues.
Last we heard she had some kind of fiber imbedded in her ear while it was pierced. When changing earrings for the first time said fiber was pulled out causing much bleeding and drama.
Our story picks up a couple weeks later...
Brenna came home from school today and said her ear felt "fat" and would I look at it. She didn't say it hurt just that it felt weird. I take one look and all I can think is, "what else can possibly go wrong for this kid?" I could see right off that her lobe was swelled up and starting to grow around the head of her earring. Sure enough the back was on too tight. I figured I'd loosen it up and it would heal on it's own.
Unfortunately she had let it go too long. I pulled the back off the earring and there was a huge glob of dried blood (ick). I pulled the earring out after that and there was a lot of blood. She had blood blisters on both ends of her ear and it just kept gushing with every little touch.
It took thirty minutes to clean it up and get the bleeding to stop (blisters to go away). Her other ear looked fine so I changed the earring back to her original ones. We decided to see if we could just put her old one back in the messed up ear. It went right in with no pain and she soaked it in salt water for awhile.
An hour later, though, she came back and wanted me to check it. It's not infected (that I can see) but it's injured enough that it's all swelled up. It was swelling around her earring already and pushing against the back. There was already blood oozing out so we just took it out. There's nothing else we can do but let it close up and hope it doesn't get infected in the mean time. She'll have to get it repierced later on. She's keeping her other earring in, though, to keep the hole open.
Poor kid. Between all her issues with that ear and falling off her bike (her knee is almost healed, though, and she's graduated to just using bandaids on it)... She just can't seem to catch a break. Fingers crossed her lobe doesn't get all infected (with her luck, though...)
Last we heard she had some kind of fiber imbedded in her ear while it was pierced. When changing earrings for the first time said fiber was pulled out causing much bleeding and drama.
Our story picks up a couple weeks later...
Brenna came home from school today and said her ear felt "fat" and would I look at it. She didn't say it hurt just that it felt weird. I take one look and all I can think is, "what else can possibly go wrong for this kid?" I could see right off that her lobe was swelled up and starting to grow around the head of her earring. Sure enough the back was on too tight. I figured I'd loosen it up and it would heal on it's own.
Unfortunately she had let it go too long. I pulled the back off the earring and there was a huge glob of dried blood (ick). I pulled the earring out after that and there was a lot of blood. She had blood blisters on both ends of her ear and it just kept gushing with every little touch.
It took thirty minutes to clean it up and get the bleeding to stop (blisters to go away). Her other ear looked fine so I changed the earring back to her original ones. We decided to see if we could just put her old one back in the messed up ear. It went right in with no pain and she soaked it in salt water for awhile.
An hour later, though, she came back and wanted me to check it. It's not infected (that I can see) but it's injured enough that it's all swelled up. It was swelling around her earring already and pushing against the back. There was already blood oozing out so we just took it out. There's nothing else we can do but let it close up and hope it doesn't get infected in the mean time. She'll have to get it repierced later on. She's keeping her other earring in, though, to keep the hole open.
Poor kid. Between all her issues with that ear and falling off her bike (her knee is almost healed, though, and she's graduated to just using bandaids on it)... She just can't seem to catch a break. Fingers crossed her lobe doesn't get all infected (with her luck, though...)
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It doesn't seem to be infected yet. It's a little tender and swelled up. The holes scabbed over but that's it. I haven't tried to see if we can get an earring in yet. We'll see.
Her knee is all healed, though. Just a few scabs left on the deeper gashes but it's not bothering her at all and absolutely no infection.
So win one for poor Brenna, lol.
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I always pictured her as a kindergarten teacher or raising a gaggle of kids of her own. But who knows. She's just now starting to find her interests. She likes to write. Her 2nd grade teacher had them doing little stories in a journal every week. Poems, too. They published a book of poems and did some up as art. She had 2 in the book and the artwork is hanging in the dining room. They are great. She's very creative.
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