Anna's "Decorated" finger

My poor baby girl, Anna, slammed her right handed pointer finger in the car door Friday afternoon!!  She was getting out of the car and somehow closed the door on the finger and I am thinking when she did, she pulled it out and it pulled the fingernail completely off.  I will spare all the gorey details and end with an emergency trip to the doctors office where they removed what was left of the nail.  OUCH!!!  They bandaged it up good to help stop the bleeding and sent her home, with pain medicine!!  I will say that she has been a REAL TROOPER through all of it!  I was very proud of her for being such a big girl with it being such a bad injury. 

I told Steven that night, he was at work through all of all of this, I was pretty shocked by myself too!  You may have heard the saying, "you will react differently, when it happens to your own kids."  Well, that saying is DEFINITELY true, my mom instincts kicked in and nothing fazed me that afternoon!!  I get grossed out and a weak stomach so easily with the site of blood or injuries on TV let alone in person.  So for all the moms and dads out there who may be worried about what you would do if... not to fear- God somehow gives us the strength and knowledge on what to do to make our babies boo boo's feel better!! 

We do ask for your prayers on the healing process of the nail bed and that the nail would grow back properly (or even at all).  When I asked the doctor if the nail would grow back, she hesitated and answered with a "We hope..."  Also, with it being on her right hand (which is the hand she writes with) she will have an adjustment to make with it being so sensitive after we decide to take the large bandage off.  

Steven came up with the cute idea of tying a ribbon around it to decorate the bandage for it was so noticeable we might as well make it pretty!!  She liked the idea and she now calls the bad finger her "decorated finger."  We went to Walmart and bought a yard of ribbon in the colors she wears most so we can change it up a little.  She also refers to it as her ballet slipper finger- when I the ribbon just right, she thinks it looks like a ballet point shoe tied up!  Might as well make the most of it, right!?!