Our First Trip to the ER

Well I picked Brooke up from her sitters and we got home and Brooke was tugging on her ear that we lost the tube from....she had tugged so much that her earring was so tight her ear was purple. So we go to get the earring off and her ear starts bleeding pretty bad. So Chris tries to get it off and the pearl broke off of the post and her ear starts swelling around it. It is now impossible to get this earring off. So I decide to take her to the ER. We get to Suttons Childrens and sign in at 645PM and finally get called back at 940PM. The charity hospital LSU was not taking any more patients because they were filled to compacity so every ER in the city was feeling the rath. So we get back there and the nurse and PA look and decide that they will lube it up and pull it thru the back, that was not going to happen because the post was to big. So they decide to strap her down and numb her ear and try and cut the post out. After numbing the ear the lobe had swollen so bad that they could not possibly see the post any longer. So the Doc comes in and says that the are going to have to cut her lobe (oh NO) but lucky the PA decides she want to try an little longer and sees a sliver of the post and snips it...and the earring comes off. They wound up cutting the other earring too because we could not get it off either. I have never and hope I never will again see my beautiful daughter cry this hard. She was so upset and screaming so that I almost passed out. I feel somewhat responsible for getting her ears pierced but I know that had she not had the tubes she would have been fine. Below are some pics of what is left of her first pearl earrings.