Poor Baby!

One of my biggest fears/worries/concerns when we are out in the village is having a medical emergency and not being able to do anything about it.  Thankfully, while we had our share of sicknesses (colds, a tummy bug or two, and 3 kids had 5th Disease, etc) during our village stay, nothing serious happened... until Wednesday night.
Originally, we were scheduled to come out of the village on the 28th (Thurs), but our flight was moved back one day to Friday.
So on Wednesday evening, our family was just chillin', looking ahead to our last day in the village.  Kaitlyn, Nathan and Justin were playing a card game.  Matt was reading a book and I was holding Elijah.  Julianne was playing with her blanket on the couch, and then it happened.  I heard a loud "crack" and it took a minute for me to register that the noise I had just heard was Julianne's head hitting the side of the couch.  She had fallen, or thrown herself down (I didn't actually see what happened) and smashed the bridge of her nose into the wooden arm of the couch.  At first, when I grabbed her up, I thought that she had hit her head.  But it only took seconds before the top of her nose started swelling up grotesquely.

Matt (ever the sympathetic father) said, "She looks like a Klingon!"

Leave it to my kiddos to come up with new ways of injuring themselves that I've never experienced before!  We were really worried that she might have broken her nose.  But it was 7pm on Wednesday night.  We had no way of contacting anyone, and now, instead of going back to Ukarumpa the next day, we still had over 24 hours to go.

We let her stay up an extra hour to make sure there were no signs of any concussion, and gave her some Tylenol and sent her to bed.  Thankfully, she didn't seem to be in excessive pain (once the original smash wore off).

Now, 2 days later, we are finally back in Ukarumpa, and currently, Matt and Julianne are at the clinic getting her checked out.  There is a very good chance that it's just a very nasty bump, but we want to be sure!

2 days later:  the swelling has gone down a lot (but not completely) and the picture doesn't do justice to how black and blue she is!

btw:  I noticed that in all these pictures J is only partially dressed.... don't worry-- she usually wears a shirt, but somehow, when all these pics were taken she managed to not be fully dressed! =)