Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Baylee's Nightmare!!









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!



9 comments:

Greg Miller said...

Ouch!

Weeks like that kind of make you wonder "what's next?"...

Hope she heals fast.

THE KLUNKERS said...

Ouch is right!! poor thing that is awful. Hope everyone is doing better! When Aysia was younger she would pass out when she would get upset. It was scary! Thankfully she grew out of it.

Ashley said...

Holy cow!! I have to agree OUCH! I can't believe she had to have sugery!! Poor thing--poor you!!! Then to have Brynlee pass out!! WOW hopefully that is all!!! GOod Luck!!!

Jessica said...

Oh my goodness! When I heard from Chris what happened to Baylee.. then he told me to check out your blog. I had the exact same thoughts, as ouch! I wish Baylee a quick recovery and back to everyday activities. I think you guys have experienced enough traumatic things for a long while.

By the way, I love your blog!

Craig and Amber said...

Oh my goodness, you weren't joking about the nightmare. What a traumatic experience for such a sweet little girl. Give her a little kiss for me.

Amy Hoopes said...

Where was I? I haven't heard of this ordeal. I must of been out of town. So sorry. What an awful experience. I'm glad to hear she is doing better.

Kellybee said...

Holy crap! What a horrible week! I sure hope your girls are doing ok...well, I think you guys have had your share of bad luck for the year, and you are exempt from anything else happening!

Mandy said...

Poor kids!!! Hope they are doing better now. What a week you guys had.

Dave and Aislinn said...

Poor girls, hope everything is going well now!!