Can you guess what this is? What's that you say, the tip of a toddlers thumb? Why yes! How did you know? Well, if you haven't heard by now, we had a pretty traumatic experience a week ago. It was a typical Saturday morning. I was getting ready to go to a baby shower and Eric was in the shower. Taylee shut the bathroom door suddenly and a second later I heard a loud scream. I quickly opened the door and as I was walking out to get Lilly, who was crying, out of the corner of my eye I spotted a pink blob stuck to the hinge side of the door. I pealed it off the door but had no idea what it was. When I got to Lilly I picked her up and saw she had blood gushing from her thumb! I then knew what it was I was holding in my hand, the top of her thumb! I started screaming for Eric.
The next 5 minutes were a blur of panic. We put pressure on Lilly's thumb to try and stop the bleeding and put the thumb tip on ice and drove to the emergency room. Poor Taylee didn't know what was going on and was scared to see blood all over Lilly, the floor, me and Eric.
We were in a huge rush to get to the hospital and when we finally got there we had to wait in a line for over 20 minutes! I was getting real ancy and was confused as to why people weren't so concerned as I was with my baby, and her hand wrapped in a bloody towel.
It all turned out fine though and after 3 hours we finally left the hospital. We were worried that maybe she might have broken her thumb, because we could see the top of the bone poking out, but luckily it wasn't. She had a very slight fracture but the doctor said it would heal in 3 weeks or so. The didn't stitch the tip back on because babies are like salamanders (that was the analogy he used) and they regrow tissue fast and that it would completely heal.
2 comments:
Yikes! That looks worse than I imagined. So glad she's growing fast.
Oh my goodness, what a horrifying experience! I'm so glad that she's healing well. Poor little thing!
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