oh my hazel

it was just a fluke

noah found the flag pole

that attaches to our bike trailer

and brought it inside to play with

hazel got jealous and needed a turn with it 

so she played with it for a couple minutes 

and then just as she set it on the couch

she walked right into it

and it made a hole

in the back of her throat

she cried and i looked at it

and called the doctor immediately

then e-mailed michael with a subject line of 

EMERGENCY!!

since his phone was dead i couldn't call him

he came home and took hazel to the doctor

they hadn't ever seen anything like it

and assumed things were fine

but contacted a specialist in spokane to check

they said to get a cat scan to make sure

everything was ok

it took hours to get the cat scan

because hazel wouldn't cooperate

so they had to heavily drug her though iv

she finally passed out

and in her cat scan they saw

that her throat was punctured

millimeters away from the artery

that leads blood to her brain

MILLIMETERS!!!!!!

she would have died for sure

you can't stop that artery from bleeding

MILLIMETERS!

i can't believe we almost lost hazel today

by such a fluke

but i am so grateful

to my Heavenly Father

for letting me keep her

when hazel finally woke up at the hospital

she was all sorts of upset

and only wanted her mom

i only wanted her, too

but couldn't be with her during her cat scan

since i'm pregnant

and i was in charge of the

stake primary leadership training

i was about to be the next speaker

when michael called to tell me she needed me

i'm so happy to be a mom

that i could go rescue her from that hospital 

she was hating so bad

and bring her home

where she wanted to be