Alisha's Christmas Story

I know, I know it's been awhile, but I'm coming back strong with a Christmas story for all of you!

Christmas day night. My parents, sisters and I all gathered in the family room to watch The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (huge fan) and we were eating the cake my mom had bought for the day. Well, I was sitting on my parents lazy boy couch with the legs up when I dropped my fork on the carpet. Since it was chocolate cake I was worried Birdie would swoop down and try to eat it. So I leaned over the leg portion, it collapsed, and I went face first into my parents solid wood coffee table.

My first reaction was to stand up and cover my face b/c my cheek right under my eye hurt incredibly bad. My sisters thought I had busted my nose and my mom started screaming something unintelligable because I had started to bleed from my left eyelid with blood on my hairline as well. So, dad came bounding in from the kitchen and we held a compress to it. Dad and Kellie took me down to the emergency room at St. Lukes while mom and Laura stayed behind.

We get to St. Lukes and the lady at the window asked me what had happened - keep in mind I could not see all this time b/c I didn't have my contacts in and my glasses were all screwed up from the faceplant. So I took away the compress and she looks at it and goes "oh my." So we wait in the lobby room for about 20 mins when the nurse comes and we go to another room. They asked me some questions (Did someone do this to you-did someone hurt you)and I assured them it was a coffee table. So, the doctor and nurse lay me down and clean off all the blood. From there they spread the wound apart and then poured in the glue into the inch gash right above my eyelid to close it. Apparently, the glue will prevent scaring a lot more than stitches would. Which is fine with me. I would not be happy getting stitches in that area.

During this time my face wasnt hurting so much as it felt like my head was being pounded with a hammer. They took a CT scan just to make sure there was nothing going wrong with my head (they pronounced nothing was in there). Issued a prescription for Vicoden, wished me a Merry Christmas, and sent us on our way. All in all about 2 hours at the hospital.

Conclusion: I now have an inch long gash below my eyebrow covered in glue. I have scratches along the side of my eye and under as well. All of that is from my glasses (thankfully those didnt break-they are Dolce & Gabbanas!). Half my eyelid is a bruise with bruising under my eye as well. And, apparently my right arm took a beating as well b/c I have a huge bruise on my upper arm that hurts now.

Otherwise that, I had a great Christmas though! Hope you all did too!