With all of the holidays and birthdays here, it hasn't slowed down much for me to sit down and blog.
We've also had a mini-crisis with the wee one. I guess this could very well be considered a Moaning Monday post!
(I'm sure everyone on Facebook is sick of hearing about this...lol)
We've been to five different doctors in five days.
Christmas Eve morning Joshua lost his temper and slammed his door. I heard a gasp and then the worst scream ever. He had slammed the door on Leah's hand. At first I was just mad. He had shut her fingers in his door just a week before, and had been told repeatedly not to slam his door. That was until I got up to see the damage and saw blood dripping from Leah's hand. Saying I "freaked" out would be an understatement. I have never been so hysterical in my life. All I could see was what looked ground up pinky finger and blood. Lots of blood. Her nail was totally demolished. (Just typing this, and remembering is making me nauseous.) I called Mel, (he had to work) and was in total hysterics. I felt like I was going to throw-up and faint! There was blood all over the floor, all over me, all over Leah. I couldn't even look at her hand. I couldn't take her to the doctor because I couldn't put her in her seat in the back bleeding all over the place, and I couldn't drive with her in my lap. Mel couldn't drop what he was doing, and he was nowhere near home. I called my sister Katie, but my mom had her car, and had taken the keys to the van that was parked at their house. Having Leah screaming, and crying, and saying "Mommy" over and over was killing me. The combination of being so helpless and scared, and to be honest, grossed out, just totally freaked me out.
Finally my mom got home and Katie sped over. She took me and Leah to the urgent care where Mel was finally able to meet us. They tried to put her nail back in place, and wrapped her up so that they could get an x-ray. Miraculously it wasn't broken, but there was a lot of tissue damage they said, and they said it was possible she'd permanently lose her nail.
We were told to come back in two days to remove the bandage and check on how the finger was doing. Mel took her back Saturday to the urgent care. When the doctor looked at it he said that it was worse than we thought and he referred us to an orthopedic specialist.
Sunday we took her to see the orthopedic specialist. The doctor there didn't even want to take the bandage off. He said from the sound of things she would need to see a pediatric orthopedic surgeon, and would probably need reconstructive surgery. So we had an appointment for this morning with the pediatric orthopedic surgeon. When she looked at it she told us that she would have to send us to a hand surgeon. Luckily we were able to go right over and see him right away. He took a look at her finger, rechecked her x-ray, and said that if she ever wanted to have a normal looking finger she would need surgery. (There's still a chance she won't ever have a nail again.)
So her surgery is Wednesday morning at 7:30. We have to be there at 5:30. I'm nervous about the anesthesia, and REALLY worried about the IV's, but I want her to have a normal looking finger!
Joshua feels just horrible, and my nerves are shot. I'm ready to have this behind us and Leah on the road to healing. At this point I'm relieved to finally have an answer, and that we won't be bounced around anymore.
Please keep Leah and our family in all your thoughts and prayers!
I will definitely update everyone after her surgery. I'm hoping to get back into blogging regularly next week when things calm down.
Until then, I wish everyone a very happy New Year!!!!
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