Kora's Black Eyes

Kora is so accident prone. The other day she was holding herself up with one arm on the couch and the other on a chair swinging her legs back and forth. She lost her grip while her legs were behind her and fell onto the ground right onto her forehead. As I cuddled her I touched her head and noticed a golf ball size bump forming on her forehead. I am not exaggerating the bump...image a golf ball sitting on her forehead. That's really how big it got in a matter of minutes. Of course I was freaked out but a friend happened to be here and we gave her some Motrin to stop the swelling and iced it. It went down and by the next day it was almost all the way down. A few days later however, she started getting black eyes and the bridge of her nose started swelling. They got worse and worse until about the following wednesday. She still has a faint black eye almost 2 weeks later but thankfully they look so much better than they did. Kora's school teacher said that when kids get bumps near their eyes the blood drain into the eye causing a black eye. Good to know and also glad her teacher knew what caused it.