Lynn update IV - accident prone day

My active sweetie had a accident prone day today. First, she tripped, but it was a minor incident, with some surface scratches. Then she scalded herself, which I will talk about below. Then after her swimming class, she didn't know where she got a cut on her index finger, which was quite painful.

Anyway, back to the scald. She was really silly. We went to see a show flat. After viewing, we were talking to the agent at the main lobby. As usual we let her run around. We have always do that (let her run freely, but keep an eye on her) cos she's too active and is impossible to stay still. There's a water dispenser, the kind that we usually find at show flats. I took a plastic cup of water from the dispenser for her, which she finished drinking soon. She played with the plastic cup and tore it up. I saw, so I asked her throw the damaged cup away. She went (toward the water dispenser), then she came back to us but didn't say anything. Now that I recall, she looked a bit weird, but we didn't pay much attention to her as we were discussing about the condo.

We went to take the MRT (J8), and that was the first time I notice a dull red patch at the side of her mouth. We took the MRT back to Toa Payoh, and then we went NTUC. We spent about 10 mins going around picking up stuff. Anyway, she's still her bubbly self, running around, chattering away. It was only when we were in the queue to pay when I asked her what's the red patch about. She finally told me that after she threw the cup away, she wanted some more water. She saw people mixing water from the blue knob (cold) and the red knob (hot) into the cup. She didn't want to take another cup, so she placed her mouth under the knob and dispense the water straight into her mouth. That's how she got scalded by the hot water. Luckily, she was not that "accurate", so the hot water scalded the outside of her mouth and not the inside. 

It was not too bad a burn, and she was not in too much pain, that's why she didn't dare to tell us. But I straight away told WK what happened and told him to go to the pharmacy opposite to get burn cream/gel.  I was SUPER GLAD that we got the gel (brand: Burnaid), cos just after the first application, the color and the swelling improved a lot. After a few more applications (can be applied every 30 mins), the injury looked very much healed. Here's a pic of the burn after the first application of the gel (the white stuff was the gel):

Frankly speaking, I was very worried when I first found out (at NTUC).  Afterwards I was almost nagging her about how important it is to inform us of happenings.  It's a little nerve wrecking experience because the incident only came to light because I'm an observant person.  I cannot imaging how long it will take or if it will ever be made known to other adults if I was not around.  She's a young kid, so she didn't know how to differentiate between a not so painful fall/scratch and a not so painful scald.  A not painful scratch can be left alone, but a not so painful scald should still be treated.  I hope she learn a good lesson.  I know that Lynn has high regards for me and trusted me, cos I have always been able to solve her problems and give her great comfort.  Hopefully the gel gave her such an instant relief that she will learn to turn to me even more.  My heart really pained when I came to know that she got scalded.  

I suddenly recall something that I had always wanted to blog about.  When I was young (about 8 or 9 yrs old), I was running up an escalator with my sis when I cut my leg on the sharp edge of the escalator. I dare not tell my mum cos she will scold me (she had always told us not to run on escalator).  It was very painful, but I tolerated.  The pain lasted quite long.  It was only when I became older that I realized I had actually lost a small piece of flesh (about the size of a 10cents coin, but slightly fatter).  For about 10 years, I had this scar and this small indent on my leg where I lost the small piece of flesh.  Sometimes I do think that if I had seek treatment I wouldn't had to go through so much pain.  So the incident today scared me not only because she scalded herself, but because she didn't tell us.  I also vividly remember another incident from the past whereby my friend fell down (when we were playing), and her mum scolded her fiercely for being naughty while she was crying in pain.  I remembered thinking how come our parents were so unloving.  Because of my own experience, I always remind myself to balance between reprimanding and comforting Lynn when she hurt herself from misbehaving.  The love (of every generation of mothers) is the same, but I feel that I can/want to do a better job.  Hopefully one day Lynn will read this and understand my love for her, and the efforts I put in to be a good mother to her.

BTW, don't be alarmed by the pic above.  The injury wasn't bad and it had already healed a lot.