Emergency 911

Does this title remind any of you of that show?? I guess that dates me and tells others just exactly how old I am. On with the show or story I should say. Of my three children, I have one sweet one that tends to faint at the sight of her own blood. Yes, this has happened on a few occassions, one time even at the playground. I know what to do in these instances. I prop her feet up, keep talking to her to have her look at me, get some orange juice. Once she's come to, she's completely fine. It's pretty much gotten to the point where she knows she's going to faint and can tell me/us. It still gets the heart racing, but we know what to do, so really it's not that big of a deal.

Yesterday Jenna went over to her friends house, I guess I can be techincal and say apartment, since we're living in an apartment building. She'd been gone for a little bit. I know where she's at, no big deal. I guess her friend was at art class at our local arts and crafts shop. Her friends Mom had Jenna walk down to get her friend. Friends mom said that they bring the friend out to the parking lot so Mom doesn't have to go in with her 1 year old twins. They waited and waited. Finally someone came out and said that the friend had dropped some ceramic thing she was working on and cut herself. From my understanding, there was a nurse there(not sure if she was just there or worked there) and was getting the glass pulled out of friends fingers. Jenna was walking around and said she wanted friend to see her and then saw...BLOOD! Of course all the talk about bleeding didn't help. She called out to friends mom and then down she went. Friends Mom was completely freaked out. She called me and said that Jenna was on the floor and wouldn't wake up or get up and that she had called 911. I had no clue what was going on, so I gather up the boys, speed over there to find the EMT's loading her up on a gurney. I found out that friend was bleeding and what had happened. Jenna fainted at her friends blood. She's fainted at her own blood, but not anyone elses.

At the hospital they asked me all these questions. I told them that I've taken her to the Dr. for that in particular and there is nothing medically wrong with her. That's just how she deals with blood and pain. I should have know this would happen to at least one of my children since their father will faint when he has blood taken and his Mom faints as well.

I talked to friends mom and now she knows what to do when this happens. Hopefully it won't happen again on her watch.