I put her in the playpen while I went to take a shower. There were times when she'll sit quietly in the playpen either watching TV or just playing with her toys. And of course, there'll be times when she'll be screaming her head off while in the playpen. This time she was screaming her head off and not long, I began to hear her scream getting louder and louder as though it was very near. I ignored that thinking it's probably just the aircond running therefore causing an "echo" or some form of distortion of her screams. The next thing I knew, Valerie was banging on my shower door while sobbing. I got the SHOCK out of my life!
How in the hell did she get out of her playpen? The first thing that came into mind was "someone carried her out?", but it was only just the 2 of us at home. Paul was in Alaska. Then it dawned on me that she climbed out of the playpen on her own. I quickly changed and brought her to the Emergency Room. Although she showed no signs of having a concussion, but I just wanted to be sure. In fact, she went into the shower with me and even played with me. Guess the Kiasi syndrome kicked in. Went to the ER 
but I guess it was a futile effort. The doctor didn't even really checked her. He just got her to walk a short distance and told me she was fine. I keep insisting that she should be x-rayed 
but the doctor insisted that there wasn't a need. I kept asking Valerie whether she felt any pain, as we were teaching her the sign for pain, hoping that she'll give me some form of indication of where she was hurting. She keeps pointing to her right feet whenever I said the word pain, I looked at the doctor and he got my message, finally! We went to take an x-ray of her right leg only.... it's better than nothing. Results were normal...So spent 2 hours at the ER....
Thank GOD she's ok... in fact, she was entertaining the people in the waiting room. She was running around, talking to people, laughing.... guess I over-reacted.
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