Can't help but feel upset!

Claire212

Thank you all so much for all your comforting words.


Yes, the cut was 2inches in width not depth (reading it back it does read wrong!).


We have been advised not to do anything until nature has taken it's course. Except for keeping it clean obviously. Then the scar will be assessed and obviously we will take every step to help it to heal.


I suppose I am just so sensitive about facial scars, I guess all we can do is take it one day at a time, I'm sure as I watch it heal I will start to feel more confident it will be ok.

iammumtoone

I know how you are feeling OP. My ds fell and had a deep cut just above his eyelid, it was glued they said it wouldn't scar but it did it still shows and I tried everything to help it, bio oil etc. I took him to the chemist and asked advise but there is nothing they can do. When I look at him bless him I can see the scar however I am sure others don't notice so much.

I know its hard but being so close to the eye you just have to be grateful it wasn't more serious, thats how I try try to look at it.

charlies-aunt

Please try not to worry - however awful it looks now, it will heal amazing well.

My DD1 has the end of her nose bitten off by a dog when she was 16 - it was horrendous- the tip of her nose was hanging off by a strip of skin, it bled frighteningly and I was horrified when it was casually stuck back into place with steri-strips by A&E

Happy to say that they were right and I was wrong - she was referred for plastic surgery but it was unnecessary because it has healed leaving only an undetectable hairline scar .... I can only see it because I know its there....but I have to look very closely!

My youngest DD has had major reconstructive maxilla-facial surgery and once the bruising settled down, the results have been life changing - yet completely unnoticeable to the naked eye

sassyblue

I swear by Elizabeth Arden's 8 hour cream for wounds that are healing over, Bio Oil is good too to minimise scarring but even if you did neither of those things l doubt there'll be a scar long term.

Hope your DD recovers soon, poor you x

apesxx

Children have accidents, it's a fact of life x if it does scar it will no doubt be hardly noticeable by the time she is older. My son hurts himself at least once a week, even the childminder only wrote the serious cuts and grazes in her book as she said he would fill her book up in a week if she put every cut and graze in. He's only 4 and his front teeth are wonky and hanging on for dear life and he has a scar on his forehead where he fell on the corner of a coffee table and he constantly has a scab on at least one, but mostly both knees. I know he's very accident prone and there's nothing I can do about it so there's no point getting worked up about it x

Anyway if he does have a few scars when he's a bit older it will give us something to tell him stories about how he got them when he asks what they are x

Hope she's ok, it's awful when your child hurts themselves x I've kinda become immune to it now as DS has hurt himself that many times but I still get upset if he hurts himself badly :-(

olgadapolga

I know exactly how you are feeling. When my son was two he was running around the house (despite being told NOT to) slipped and headbutted a radiator. He ended up in A&E. Unfortunately he had the incorrect treatment - it was a deep scar and needed proper needle-and-thread stitches but paper stitches were used instead. These came off and left a wide scar on his forehead; had I known then what I know now I would have insisted on proper stitches despite the trauma this may have caused to him. Anyway, his scar just so happens to be in exactly the same place as Harry Potter's so he now thinks that he is a kindred soul and a wizard in the making. It doesn't bother him in the slightest. I, however, was totally gutted that he'd had an accident that I'd not been able to prevent and also that his perfect face had been completely ruined (it isn't of course and he is as gorgeous now as he was then).

I had a run-in with a loft door when I was in my early twenties and ended up with a cut upper lip. I had three or four stitches and it looked awful at the time. You can't see it now, even I have to look for it!

I am sure that she will be fine. It's a horrible shock when your children are hurt and the guilt/upset goes on for a while afterwards. My 10-month old managed to crawl into a wedged-open door earlier today and has a horrible bruise on her forehead. I wasn't quick enough to stop her, I felt so guilty (still do!) and that was just a minor accident.

Mrs.C.A.R

Hi OP

i can totally understand why you fee so upset by this. Dont' forget though her skin will grow and even if it does scar the scar may be somewhere totally different!
When i had chicken pox as a child it scarred me on my tummy just above my belly button, the pock mark is now between my bosom in my cleavage!

Hope you feel better soon about the situation x

shegirl

Soleil_lune wrote: »

By the way, you DO mean 2" in length and not DEPTH right? :eek:

Clearly lol

Wickedkitten

meece wrote: »

just to let you know, in case you wanted to look at products to minimise scarring - try Bio-oil - or try Aldis own one Lacura Beauty Care Oil £3.99, apart from the colour I can't tell the difference. Its a lovely oil, and designed to minimise scars, and also if your skin feels dry or tight etc.

You sound like such a caring mum.

pure cocoa butter will do the same

Morglin

Claire212 wrote: »

My beautiful 22 month old daughter tripped and fell the other day at Nursery.


She ended up with a 2 inch (deep) cut on her face underneath her eye stretching to her nose, that ultimately needed stitches.


I am now so upset that she will more than likely have a scar. I'm devastated.


I know it sounds ridiculous because we are lucky it wasn't more serious. She is happy and healthy was so brave and is running around now as though nothing has happened.


I was born with a Cleft lip and Palate and was overjoyed when at our 20 week scan she was unaffected, now I am deeply upset that this has happened.


I know many people say that children this young do not scar, but the doctors have said otherwise, and that it's likely.


I guess I'm looking for reassurance that it won't be as bad as I'm imagining.

My daughter has a small scar on her face, from when she fell on her brother's toy car, when she was about 3.

It's still there, and she's 39, but can be barely seen and it's just another little childhood memory we smile at.

Seriously, it's not the end of the world, kids get these scrapes and one day you will smile over it all!

Lin