My Poor Baby! :(

We brought Raegan to the ER today. Apparantly, she slipped and fell.....and ended up with the base of her right pinky splitting open. We hypothesized that she had hyperextended her hand somehow and the skin split open to compensate. Gross. Ewwwww!!!!

I did stay with her throughout the entire procedure. When she got home after swimming, she was bawling her eyes out, refusing to look at her hand. This, from someone who doesn't even cringe at the sight of a needle for her vaccinations! Aaargh! I will never begin to understand how kids think!

Anyway, when we got to the hospital and the orderly had cleaned her hand up a bit, and an intern or a resident had looked at her hand and remarked that it wasn't too bad, that was when she finally deemed it time to peek at her hand. *rolling eyes here*

Her hand was covered in betadine, so it was all gross looking and YELLOW. But she looked straight at her wound and saw that it had stopped bleeding. So she stopped crying and saying ouchie, ouchie! *insert sobbing sound*

Well, after that, she was her usual motor mouth self and talked nonstop! Even when the doctor finally got to her and said that he was going to sew it up, she still couldn't stop herself from talking! And I don't think it was nerves, either. She probably was just making up for lost time she wasn't able to talk during her "traumatic" hour or so on our way to the ER. *roll eyes again*

The doctor told her to NOT move her hand no matter what. She answered by saying that she might scream. The doctor rebutted with "that's okay, scream as loud as you want, but don't move your hand."

And she didn't. Proud Mama moment here. :) She just lay there with her hand open. She still refused to look at her hand during the anaesthesia and suture process. She DID feel the sting of the needle when it went INSIDE (!!!!!!) her flesh. But she didn't move at all. She held her breath, rolled and crossed her eyes, and was purple in the face. Literally. But her hand lay still.

I was the one making faces....I thought the stupid needle was supposed to go on the OUTSIDE of her wound, making it numb. But NOOOOOOO!!!! It went on the inside!!!! FOUR times!!!! Aaaaaccccckkkkk!!!! I wanted to scream! hahahahahahaha! Ewwwwwwww!!!!

She was a real trooper for sure!

After the whole ordeal, we went straight to Omakase for dinner. Her "reward" for being such a good patient. She hadn't eaten yet, either, hehehehe.

And no, I wasn't allowed to take pictures while in the hospital believe it or not! Some STUPID rule about protecting the privacy of the HOSPITAL. Take note, the privacy of the hospital and NOT of the patients!!! How IDIOTIC is that response?!?!??!! Grrrrr!!!!!

TTFN!