What an absolutely rotten day today turned out to be. I finally finished digging out the Garden under Maddie's window so it is ready for the concrete pad and a fairy garden, unfortunately while I was attempting to replant the one thing in the garden that I wanted to keep Maddie had a fall on some of the left over scaffolding and cut herself.
We took Maddie to the hospital because of the location of the cut, and then had an awful couple of hours while the Doctors did an x-ray to check for fractures and talked to another hospital to get advice on how to proceed with us. While they don't suspect abuse, they had to record the injury and really suss out how the accident happened. I can not imagine feeling much worse than I do right now, knowing that it has been recorded and for a while the Doctor wasn't sure if he believed how it happened. It doesn't help that we did over react and there is nothing wrong with Maddie, but I have to wonder how hurt kids have to get to be taken to the hospital by abusive parents, and whether in future I will second guess whether to take Maddie to be checked if she hurts anywhere. I certainly have learnt my lesson and will never leave the back gate open again.
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