A week ago Monday Brynlee accidentally shut the front door on Baylee's pinky finger and amputated the tip of her pinky finger off. I was not home at the time and I got a frantic call from Warren telling me to hurry home that part of Baylee's finger was off and we needed to get her to the emergency room. I thought he was exaggerating until I saw her finger for the first time in the E.R. Warren had to peel off the door jam a piece of Baylee's finger along with her finger nail. The pictures are backwards with the bottom two pictures being shortly after it happened in the E.R. Baylee was in a lot of pain and so were Warren and I. We couldn't believe how bad it looked the pictures don't do it justice. The doctors told us that the bone was exposed in her finger and she would have to go into surgery to repair it. We made the mistake of giving her a couple cookies in the E.R. so we had to wait 6 hours for them to digest so she could have the surgery. Her stomach had to be completely empty for them to knock her out during the surgery. The third picture is of Baylee in her hospital gown and booties waiting patiently on daddy's lap. The second picture is of Baylee right out of surgery eating a Popsicle and she was so thirsty she drank to cups of sprite. We were worried she would throw it all up so soon after surgery but she kept it down thankfully. The top picture is of Baylee's finger one week after surgery. We took her back into the surgeon on Monday and he said everything is healing perfectly. There is still raw skin so we have to have it wrapped and kept out of water still for at least another two weeks. That in itself is a nightmare. Baylee has very sensitive skin and the bandaging is leaving wounds all over her hand. The whole thing has been quite the ordeal and I'm so glad things weren't any worse the surgeon said he tried to save as much of her fingernail bed as he could. He said there should be about 1/3 of it left. On top of this whole nightmare last Friday I had to take Baylee in to have her hand re-wrapped due to her dunking it in the tub and while we were there Brynlee passed out and hit the door. The nurse called 911 and soon arrived the paramedics who looked her over. When it happened it looked as if she was having a seizure. Her eyes were rolled back and her hands and feet were tightening her lips went purple and she was very pale and then she just stopped as if she was dead. I was shaking her and calling her name thinking wasn't Baylees finger enuf for one week. She came too and the paramedics gave us the option of transporting her to the E.R. or walking her a couple doors down to her pediatrician. We decided to take her to her pediatrician who looked her over and said she had a breath holding spell usually triggered by something. We think she was hungry and maybe in shock from Baylee's finger. Brynlee is doing fine now and Baylee is slowly recovering. Thank you to all of you who called or stopped by to visit Baylee. Baylee sure has a lot of people who love her!
