I arrived at Katherine’s pre-school to pick her up a tad late yesterday, having had to stop for gas. I could see her running around and doing stuff inside, through the little window in the door. When the teacher answered the door, though, the first question asked me was, “Have you talked with your wife?”<\/p>\n
“Uh … no.”<\/p>\n
Katherine had, it seems, had an accident on the playground. She’d slipped (on some ice?) on the steps of the short slide out front, and as part of her landing had impacted her left front top tooth. Katherine came trotting over to show me at that point, in seeming good spirits. Her gum was pretty badly bruised, I could see where she’d bled, and the tooth —<\/p>\n
— well, the tooth was pushed out a little bit, and pushed back a little bit. Not horribly, but distinctly.<\/p>\n
Katherine immediately opined that she hoped the tooth came out, so that the tooth fairy could visit her. She’s been eager for her teeth to come out (as a sign that she’s growing up) for over a year.<\/p>\n
It seemed that they’d tried to reach me by cell (as that’s what’s on the emergency contact sheet), and had left two messages but not been able to get hold of me. Nor, it turned out, had Margie. I checked my cell, and it showed no reception. Nada. Which seemed odd. I cycled the power on it, and, bam, there was reception and messages. Strange.<\/p>\n
Anyhow, they’d wiped away the blood, gotten some ice for it, and Kitten had been (in the words of both teachers) “very brave.”<\/p>\n
When I got hold of Margie, she had a call in to the dentist, but hadn’t heard anything back. I drove home with Kitten, who was chatty, but very careful of touching her tooth with her tongue or anything, so her enunciation wasn’t what it normally was. Still, she seemed perky and happy (and eager for the tooth to fall out, re tooth fairy).<\/p>\n
Relatively quiet evening. I’d promised her some Jello with dinner, but we were out, and Margie was at a meeting, so I told Katherine we were going to go out and buy some — but then I talked to Margie on the phone, and she was already stopping by the store. So Katherine and I went for a walk instead in the 20ish cold, she in her snow boots, and we talked about ice, and being properly careful (but not scared). She was at first blithe about some of the ice on the sidewalk (extensive — it’s been pretty close to sub-freezing since last weekend’s storm), then got pretty frightened in a grab-daddy’s-hand kind of way, but was eventually traversing snow and ice with more aplomb than I was comfortable with (though she <\/em>was very proud of it).<\/p>\n During the reminiscences of what had happened, she did briefly get teary and assert that she’d not <\/em>been very brave, and that it had been really scary when it happened. But only briefly, and then she was back to having fun with her food.<\/p>\n Katherine had some cheesy mac for dinner (with a spoon, so she could scoop it off with her lips). The tooth didn’t seem to hurt her much, and we didn’t test it for looseness, but we urged her to ginger caution nonetheless. Margie brought home some Jello, both to make and (time considerations) in little snack cups, which Katherine just loved.<\/p>\n Then upstairs, special bath time for Mommy, some kids’ Motrin from Daddy, good night stories (including one about Blue losing a tooth), and she slept like the proverbial babe, all night long.<\/p>\n Some time after Katherine was in bed asleep, the dentist called. She was very apologetic, but, for some reason, none of her messages had gotten to her cell phone until just a few minutes previously (which, coupled with my own experience, makes me wonder if there were cell network problems yesterday).<\/p>\n Her diagnosis, via phone, was that there was probably not much that could be done (we could have, evidently, straighted the tooth out some right after the accident, but the very thought made Margie and I both cringe). She’ll likely lose the tooth, or it may stay and get dark, but there’s no big worry as it’s just a baby tooth. Biggest long-term issue might be a slight white spot on the permanent tooth where the impact disrupted the bud slightly.<\/p>\n We’re taking her in anyway, natch. Being the Over-Protective Dad, I’m in a mostly-suppressed tizzy about My Poor Disfigured Daughter and How This Will Affect Her Speech Therapy and Will The Other Kids Make Fun Of Her and all that sort of jazz. Plus, of course, What If This Turns Into A Life-Threatening Injury And We’d Only Gone In To The Dentist And Made Sure.<\/p>\n Yeah, silly me, I know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I arrived at Katherine’s pre-school to pick her up a tad late yesterday, having had to stop for gas. 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