I'll start from the beginning of the incident. So on Saturday the 7th while we were out camping, Braylee went on a small bike ride with her sister Maddee and friends and ended up wrecking coming down a hill. She has a pretty good abrasion on her side, her knee and elbow are all banged up, and she said her head hurt but otherwise visually she looked ok. We get her back to the camper and get her cleaned up and she's complaining of everything hurting along with her head. Her helmet only had a little scratch on it so we decided to give her some meds and monitor her for any other signs of a head injury. She slowly started to get better that day only being sore. On Sunday morning she wakes up feeling great and ready to play. She went tubing and had a blast. Monday she did great too.
On Tuesday she woke up with a black eye and I had asked her if she hit it on something and she said no. A couple hours go by and it finally dawns on me that it was from her bike wreck. We look at it closer and she has a dark yellow bruise across her right side of her forehead and down her nose. This sets off alarms for us so I ended up taking her to her pediatrician in Jackson and he sends us for a CT of her head.
We decide to waste some time around town until the results come in. We get some ice cream and then right as I ordered her dinner at Wendy's her pediatrician calls and says that she has a small skull fracture above her right eyebrow and there are some air bubbles under her skull that are a little alarming so he tells us to head to Salt Lake City and to have her be NPO (nothing by mouth) incase they need to take her into surgery. She was not a happy girl about not getting to eat. So we drive back to Pinedale to pick up Jeff and then head to SLC. We finally arrived here at 11pm last night.
They get us right back and then it was a hurry up and wait on neurosurgery. Finally around 1 a.m. we hear from neurosurgery that she doesn't need surgery but she needs to be admitted and monitored the rest of the night. We finally get moved to a room at 3 a.m, and she's asleep finally by 3:15..... talk about a very long night. She slept most of the morning only waking up to talk to the doctors making rounds. It was determined that the air bubbles under and on top of her skull will go away fairly quickly, her skull fracture will heal fast being as it's not displaced and they have diagnosed her with a mild TBI (traumatic brain injury) aka a mild concussion. She had been discharged from the hospital!!!
She will be on concussion protocol for most likely the next 3 months but we will check in with the concussion rehab specialist in 4-6 weeks and go from there. We aren't sure if her surgery in October is still a go but her plastic surgeon has been updated on everything and will be reviewing her scans and get in contact with us. We are so very glad she had her helmet on, the outcome would have been WAY worse if she didn't!! We're so ready to get home and we just hope and pray that she continues to improve and doesn't decline. Always keeping us on our toes!!
