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Ava was excited for a friend's birthday party today. She had tons of fun and towards the end of the party during cupcakes the girl's mother let their dog in the house (a 13 year old miniature pincher). Ava is a dog lover and she was gently petting the dog while it sat on an adults lap. The next thing I know I here a loud scream and Ava comes running to me crying. Everyone in the room giggled thinking that the dog had tried to eat her cupcake and that's why she was crying. Unfortunately, the dog bit Ava. Her first reaction was that she had done something wrong to the dog. She cried in my arms that "I didn't squeeze the dog or anything". At that point I looked down and realized she had been bitten...there were holes in her long sleeve shirt and I pulled it back to find a full set of teeth marks in her forearm. One of the dog's canine teeth had punctured Ava's skin and there was a small hole in her arm (one of those bloodless puncture wounds).
Now, based on the fact that last year Ava was bitten by a child in preschool, so hard that it drew blood, I knew the pediatrician would want to start precautionary antibiotics.
Ava wanted to stay at the party to watch the presents being opened and then we left. I called the ped and she does indeed want to meet us at her office at 10am on Sunday so we can get the antibiotics started (apparently we have 24 hours).
Poor Ava, I just feel so bad for her. The girl is almost always being bitten by someone or something. She absolutely LOVES dogs and has accidentally bitten one other time recently by the basketball coach's dogs when she and the dog were both going for the tennis ball at the same time.
I think her arm is more bruised by the impact of the teeth marks than by worry of infection but we'll do what needs to be done just as a precaution...because we all know, if anything weird can happen to my kids it WILL happen.
Now, based on the fact that last year Ava was bitten by a child in preschool, so hard that it drew blood, I knew the pediatrician would want to start precautionary antibiotics.
Ava wanted to stay at the party to watch the presents being opened and then we left. I called the ped and she does indeed want to meet us at her office at 10am on Sunday so we can get the antibiotics started (apparently we have 24 hours).
Poor Ava, I just feel so bad for her. The girl is almost always being bitten by someone or something. She absolutely LOVES dogs and has accidentally bitten one other time recently by the basketball coach's dogs when she and the dog were both going for the tennis ball at the same time.
I think her arm is more bruised by the impact of the teeth marks than by worry of infection but we'll do what needs to be done just as a precaution...because we all know, if anything weird can happen to my kids it WILL happen.
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POOR AVA! I hope this doesn't scar her for life...it is great that she is an animal lover and these things can take YEARS for people to get over. Steve was bitten by a dog as a child and it took me a long time to convince him that dogs are a good pet...now he does really like dogs.
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