A few weeks ago as I was tucking Caleb in bed, I heard a cry that did not sound good coming from Mia. Knowing something was wrong, I rushed out to see her head gushing out blood and all the kids screaming that she was going to die. Of course, what was going on in my mind was, “Why today, when Jared is staying late at work and I have no car and both American Embassy doctors are out of town for training?” After stopping the bleeding, we drove over to the International Medical Clinic with the Uzbek Embassy doctor in the motorpool SUV (which was nice since the roads were really bad, as they don’t plow here) and he and another guy stitched Mia up. Then he put a bandage all around her head to keep the swelling down and told me that since we had been unable to find out what had caused her puncture wound, we needed to do a CAT scan to make sure there was no problems with chipped bone or other complications. Wow. So we then drove to an Uzbek clinic. I was a bit nervous about this, but it turned out to be fine. The scan turned out normal, and I was very happy to discover it had only cost 62,000 som (about $32)! Mia felt pretty proud of herself by this point, and when she arrived home and saw that she had achieved something of celebrity status with her still-awake siblings, she took the part happily, sharing all her experiences and celebrating with Kade that they’d both had stitches now, and seriously informing the others that she had not gotten a single lollipop or sticker! :) So all’s well that ends well.
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