fall down go boom

no big deal,

i got my headphones & my blankie,

who needs clothes?

 not too long after this,

she fell and bit her lip :(

poor baby.

black eye('d pea)

 I was in bed not feeling well after katie's shower

and in come cam and hazel...

she fell off his lap right onto the corner of the coffee table.

her eye was already getting a huge hematoma on it.

oh man i knew it would be bad over the next couple days.

 she was fine after just a minute of crying.

cinnamon toast fixes everything!

our first ALMOST ER visit

i was cooking and an olive oil bottle fell on hazel's head...

the kind with the metal pourer spout.

she was fine after a couple minutes.

she didn't want me to hold pressure on it,

but once i got a steri-strip on it, she was fine.

Lauren had just made it to our house to

drive us to the ER when Hazel decided she was fine.

Then we called Lauren's dad, who is a plastic surgeon.

and he came the next day and glued it.

bah

hans totally clocked me when he decided he was a lap dog

i had to clean it up

and then put steri-strips on it

dang.

stapler

this

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very very bad....

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so, ya know how the back of the staple gun comes off and you can reload staples?

and you know how it's on a spring?

well... i was reloading and the back didn't quite click in

and it popped out and hit my eyeball and broke my contact.

yes folks, broke it into 3 pieces...

(i have hard contacts)

luckily it didn't

a: break into my eye

b: i had the contact to protect my cornea

c: i didn't go blind

d: i didn't get a black eye.

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i called the eye dr right away,

they ordered me a new contact and rush delivered it

and said i could come see them in 2 days.

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i was fine, minus wearing my glasses to work

and having people make fun of me...

joys.

what did you do friday...

well, i decided i was going to paint the kitchen

seal gray, so i went to the store and got my supplies.

i came home and had to prep, by

cleaning, moving the fridge, oven, stuff off counters, etc...

well, when i moved the oven i was scared... i found a

TATER TOT... ewwwwww how long has that been there?

so i was cleaning and cleaning.

i moved the fridge, and ya know how they say you need to dust the coils off all the time, i was nervous... but we didn't have any coils, they are covered up, but i found lots of dust and random gross things... then there was this pile of goo.

i had sorta seen the goo before i moved the fridge, but wasn't really thrilled to clean it, so i pretended it wasnt there.

until friday.

dun dun dun....

i couldnt just leave it there, no no... not liz cannon..

so i sprayed it with my method all purpose cleaner, and took a paper towel to that crap (i wasnt risking using a rag eveb, i wanted this to be in the trash)... so i sprayed with my left hand, and was about to wipe with my right, i drug my hand toward me... and OUCHHHH!!!!

ahhhh!!! f***!!!!!! i'm bleeding.... probably to death!!!!! wait liz, youre a nurse, what do you do... run to the sink and rinse it out, you're probably gonna get a disease from what, a hard piece of dried food?? leave a blood trail, and while youre rinsing out your finger, make sure you clean the blood spots that are dripping in the sink with your good hand... oh yeah, put soap in it.... s*** that burns... can you see how deep it is? nooooo it's bleeding too much... okay, youve washed it, hold pressure.....

do you need to go to the hospital? probably not, theyll just tell you to hold pressure... okay check it again... AHHH still gushing blood.. okay call lauren, she's at work...

"CCU this is Kristina"

"hey kristina, it's liz, is lauren there?"

"yeah she's here somewhere, let me find her"

"well.... i cut my finger, and it wont stop bleeding.... do you think i should come in?"

"have you seen how deep it is?"
"no, b/c everytime i do, it's bleeding too much"

"yeah you should come in and we can look at it"

"okay if im not there in 10 min call 9-1-1 b/c i died on the way in"

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i get to work... have a CCU dr. check it out, still bleeding, but he's able to see that it's pretty deep. he sends me to the ER so they can do a nerve block (numb my whole finger). and stitch it up.

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Lauren goes with me to the ER.

fills out my paper work.

sits with me through triage.

they take me to a little room.

lauren sits with me as they poke and prod my little finger...

ouch ouch ouch...

then she says i need stitches...

it kinda hurt up until then...

then i thought i was gonna die...

1 million shot of bupivicaine (like lidocaine), some crying, squeezing lauren's hand, and wincing later... i was numb. Lauren had to go back to her patients

and i got 3 stitches.

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drama.

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needless to say, i havent finished painting.

pics of finger below.

so once i got home i decided to see if there was a piece of metal or glass in the goo... sure enough.. it was glass. and you're like ewwwww blood on the glass... nope that's goo.

have to wear a splint so stitches dont bend.

friend cailly gave me some bling!!!

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i'm so cool!

garden update

cameron went on a 24 mile mtb ride with his friend joe

he ran into a tree, and it cut his jacket & arm

and when he fell he cut his leg too

but he'll survive

eww

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garden update

butternut squash!!!

isnt it cute

acorn squash!!!!!

another acorn squash

fresno chilis

tomatoes turning RED!

see all the cherry tom's turning red?!?!?!?
*they usually don't even make it inside, b/c i eat them as i pick them

tomatillo!!!!

pumpkin, turning from green to yellow (to hopefully orange)

another pumpkin

california poppy

some flower that is cute

flowers that i love
they just make me happy

cosmos (i know what they are now)

*i like this pic b/c you can see my shadow in the background

they are over 6 feet tall!!!!!

*the tallest i have seen throughout denver

(everyone plants these b/c they are so great in CO)

cam's homemade trellis for his watermelons and cantelopes

cameron's lastest trip to the ER

Friday night (of course i was out of town)

endo'd while mtb

would have landed great minus the rock that was jutting out and stabbed him.

he said it was this huge gaping hole (will try to get him to email me pics from his phone later).

he said it was gushing blood, just from when he cut it to when he stood up, it was already pouring down his leg. he said he even felt like he was gonna faint for a second. anyways, the grossest part of the whole thing was he said there was a couple pieces of fat that came out of the wound, and they looked like yellow boogery things and one of them when he tried to wipe it off got stuck to his finger... GROSS!!! Anyway, his friend rode to the bottom to get the car and cameron ended up having to ride down b/c it was faster than walking and he was oozing pretty bad. so cam made it to the first parking lot, while jason went to the lower p-lot. a guy stopped cam to see if he needed a towel or anything, and being the sweet boy, cam said he didnt want to ruin his towel, so the guy gave him a diaper ;) so cute! anyway, then cam went home and my nurse friend, also jason's wife, checked him out and told him to go to the ER. so he did, and got 3 stitches. He said it was hurting pretty bad & he was even limping some from the fall. He used a make shift cane to get around the house that night :). he said the wound was like 1 inch deep, gross!

i love to mountain bike

but im sad when i get hurt.