Edit to Overnight Hospital Stays

Well, I've thought about it, and this probably isn't true. I've likely been in the hospital overnight on at least three occasions.

When I was born, my digestive tract wasn't fully developed, and so my mom tells me that I was in and out of the hospital sick a lot then. And, I used to stop breathing when I was a baby, a lot. Maybe they'd call it SIDS now, but she'd come in and I'd just be blue, or she'd be holding me and realize that I'd stopped breathing OUT a few breaths ago...and so there was some testing involved with that. Possibly I was held overnight for some of that??

Once when I was three and was bitten by a german shepherd/collie mix in the face, right over my right eye and temple. It took about 19 stitches to close it up, and really did just about take off that part of my face. It's WHY my eyebrow doesn't grow properly over there, and also why my face does express properly over there. AND, for all of you people who come up to me and try to wipe off the "dirt on my face," it's not DIRT. It's a two inch scar and it's not ever coming off, so please don't do that. Also, I was bitten again on the other side of my face, only lower, the summer before my 8th grade year but a little mutt. Those scars are much smaller, but resemble acne scars. No overnight stays for that - just a quick trip to the ER.

And then a third time, my dad was riding me on the handle bars of his bike, and my foot got caught in the spokes. It went all the way around, past the bars that hold the wheel onto the frame of the bike, and both broke part of my ankle and chipped some bone on that round part of my ankle that stick out a bit and rotates?! I went flying and so did the bike. Mental note, dads: Don't ride your kids on the handle bars. AND! don't be a dumb butt and cut the cast off weeks early just because your little girl daughter is complaining that it itches, because if you do, you can count on the fact that the bone probably isn't going to heal properly, and that every time she hits her ankle on something for the rest of her life, she's going to want to SCREAM in pain. Dad was high most of the time, have I ever mentioned that? So, that was another trip...but I'm not sure if that was an overnight stay or not, but it could have been.