2 in 2 weeks....

Well Miss Piper strikes again! First the pea incident and then this...This afternoon, as she's eating her cheese, rice, carrots and green bean's - I turn around to refill her rice and I see her toppling out of her chair and onto the floor. Along with her body goes her plate which crashes to the floor and breaks into a million pieces (note to self: use plastic) and slices her ring finger wide open to the bone. I ran over to her and scooped her up and she was immediately bleeding everywhere. I did the whole nurse thing and applied pressure, held her arm up higher than her heart, tried calming her down and then I pulled the napkin away and saw "it". Holy yikes! There was a good amount of flesh wide open and I knew that there would be nothing more that I could do, so we headed to the children's ER. They were so nice...I told them about Piper's CF and they said we could wait in the car and they would come out and tell us when it was her turn to see the doctor. This was great news...we didn't actually have to wait in the ER waiting room with dozens of other sick kids. Apparently today was a blowout day for them and they got 40 patients in a matter of 3 hours...lol...figures, the only day Piper decides to slice her finger open. Anyway, they swooshed her right in and made sure she wasn't hanging around anyone "potentially" sick and then it began! He opened her finger up and the screaming began...once he realized it couldn't be easily fixed, he opted for stitches instead (5 to be exact) and had to stick her with a needle about 8 times and the poor kid was screaming bloody murder and of course, I was completely watery-eyed...like any mom would be! They had to wrap her up in one of those little mummy things so she wouldn't kick and scream and that only seemed to make her cry more. She saw the string from the stitches sticking out of her hand and couldn't figure out what it was...all the time crying...so I whipped out my iphone and had her watching Thomas the Train in hopes of distracting her...it worked for a little bit, then she'd remember, then she'd watch a little bit more...eventually we got her all sewn up and now she has a giant splint on her hand that goes clear up her forearm that has to be cleaned twice per day for 1 week...that's right folks, a 3 year-old...no, wait...a RIGHT HANDED 3 year-old in a splint for 1 week unable to color (her all-time favorite past-time), unable to play with her leapster (runner-up to her favorite past-time) and having to learn to coordinate eating with her left-hand! This is going to be so much fun...hahaha!! She is just exhausted after today's ordeal...poor little sweetie...she had a rough "just being a kid" kinda day...it's kind of nice having to go to the hospital for something non-cystic fibrosis related for a change, even if it wasn't for something pleasant! Here is Piper in her super sweet splint...I'm off to give her tylenol before the numbness wears off her fingers!

   

Comments

[Shem]

Aww, poor thing! I'm so glad she didn't hit her head or something and do worse damage! She has such a great mom...I've been reading your blogs and keeping you both in my prayers. I can't imagine having to go through as much as you do, but I know God is taking care of you, holding you in His hands. Remember, He won't let you face more than you can bear! *hug*

[Steve]

awwwww poor kid, been there when my little ones had to get their school shots and they ran out of the one shot with all the vaccines and had to do multiple, the "Why are they doing this to me cry" is unbearable. Plastic plates for sure they will throw them too.

[Mandy Hank Photography]

The purple is so Piper! :) Poor thing.

[Angela Hefner]

Poor little thing....hopefully it'll heal super fast and she can be out of that splint...although it IS a very pretty purple!:)