Sunday, April 8, 2018

#30facesofautism - Day 8


Day 8 – Baby Girl is still sick.  Yesterday while she was curling up into a ball on the sofa she hit herself hard in the month with her knee.  Hard enough to really bust her lip open – which is something she really only allowed me to look at this morning.  When it happened yesterday she barely even teared up and certainly did not cry.  I tried to comfort her but she would have none of that.  For a long time she did not seem to feel physical pain like the rest of us, or maybe she felt it but didn’t respond the way the rest of us do.  It worried us a lot – you could never tell how serious something was.  We’ve seen her knocked off her feet while walking in front of someone swinging and be thrown three feet without so much as a whimper, fling herself back and hit her noggin on the headboard full force and keep going.  Administer ice? NO.  Clean the area? Absolutely NO.  Bandaids? Only in the last about 18 months and they are to stay on until they fall off or she turns 21, whichever is first.  No one removes the bandaid.  No one.  Only recently have I seen her react a little more, actually show an outward sign that she was hurt.  Once or twice she has allowed us to comfort her when these boo boos happened – but only on her terms.  This was her first skinned knee and it was from a rough tumble on the concrete driveway while running and playing with our neighbor.   There was barely even a reaction – she was and still is one tough little girl. #30facesofautism #autismawareness



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