Sunday, February 22, 2009

Jeanette's injuries

Jeanette had a tumble in the bathroom at 3am this morning and managed to cut her forehead from hairline to the bride of her nose. In addition, she managed to twist both her feet under the basin vanity cabinet, causing a golf ball size swelling on the top of her right foot and a surface cut on the left one. Peter and I cleaned her up, dressed her wounds and put an ice compress on her foot. At 9am when Peter woke her up for breakfast her left eye was now bruised, puffy and blue and the swelling on her foot had trebled in size (now the size of a tennis ball). We immediately took her to the casualty section at Netcare Blaauberg Hospital. She was given stitches on her forehead and the hematosis was drained (No broken bones thankfully). She was seen by a surgeon and he recommended that he should take her into surgery, sterilise the wound completely and give her stitches. She is being kept in hospital for observation to ensure that no infection sets in.