A Broken Nose

On November 1st, the youth in our ward went to their favorite activity.

Midnight skating at Classic Skating!

Unfortunately for Kambriella, her night ended with a broken nose. ;(

Clint was with her as one of the leaders, and called me informing me that they were on their way to the Emergency Room. They took xrays confirming that it was broken, but said that they couldn't do anything because she would need to go see a specialist on Monday.

After arriving home at about 4:00am everyone went to bed, and Kambriella woke up not looking too bad, and wanting to go onher day activity that her and her friends had been planning for a month now for the Girl's Pref dance at the school.

She is a champ in so may ways, and wasn't about to let a broken nose slow her down or get in the way of her life!

Ironically, her and her date were already dressing up as boxers, and o the broken nose went perfectly with her costume!

I was so proud of Kambriella for being so brave. She got hurt at Classic simply trying to be kind and was moving someone else's scooter off of the track that was left there. She even said to herself, "I should probably move that scooter before someone gets hurt." Little did she know that she would trip moving it and fall into the handlebars and be the one who got hurt.

She even said, "Mom, I'm kind of glad that this happened to me and not someone else because I'm pretty tough and other people might not have handled it as well." 

True,

You are one tough cookie!

After visiting with the Dr. one week after the injury, she informed us that Kambriella would need to have surgery to fix the break.

So, we scheduled her surgery day for the next Tuesday, November 12th.

She again was a champ!

Making everyone laugh before she went under. :)

I snapped this photo of Kambriella being rolled away with the anesthesiologist Dr. Timmins because it reminded me of the same situation15 years earlier when she was a baby, and they came and took her away from me and carried her down the hall to go and have her open heart surgery to fix the holes in her heart when she was just 4 months old.

It was a nostalgic moment for me and brought many emotions.

Oh how I love that sweet, brave girl.

When she came out of surgery she was HILARIOUS!

She would flop her tongue out of her mouth very abruptly indicating to me that she would like me to feed her some of her slushie! :)

She did great in the recovery and we got to go home pretty quickly. 

She was still feeling the effects of the meds when she asked me in the car if we could take a selfie together... ;) ;)

Clint was with us the whole time and drove us home to be sure she was doing ok and breathing good.

We got her home and into bed where she was able to rest all day, and stayed home from school the whole rest of the week. I was happy for her that throughout the whole thing, Kambriella never really had any pain. (Like I said, she is one tough cookie!) But when you can't really breathe that well, it takes all of your energy, and so it was good for her to just stay home and rest.

Kambriella had so many visitors come to see her, and so many people who brought over thoughtful get-well gifts!

Mia and Sam came over a few different times.

She got blankets, stuffed animals, Legos, coloring books and crayons, chips, ice-cream-candy, snacks, flowers and more!

This girl is sure loved.

And I appreciate her friends so much!

Here is Kambriella's before and after picture. The doctor did a great job putting things back together!

Kambriella is as beautiful as ever.

She got her nose cast off, had her follow up with Dr. Sink who performed the surgery, and is well on her way to doing everything that she loves again.

We love you sweet Kambriella!

So glad you are on the mend!