TRAUMA!

We had quite the traumatic experience the other day here at our house. Koen and I were in the laundry room where I was switching the laundry. He wanted me to put his jacket on him so he could go outside with Austin. I told him I would as soon as I was done. Koen headed out of the laundry room ahead of me and I closed the door behind me. All of a sudden Koen started screaming and I looked over and he was holding his hand and there was blood dripping off his hands. I immediately grabbed him and ran into the bathroom where I rinsed the blood off his hand so I could see what happened. I then realized that his pinky was missing the tip. I hurried and called Scott at work and then loaded the boys in the car to head over to his office. Scott took a look at it and said to take him to the ER. Koen and I headed over there to see what they could do for him. Scott went home to look for the tip of his finger and found it stuck in the door still (Sorry - that's kind of gross) and brought it to the ER. They called in an orthopedic surgeon to see what he could do. He told us we could try and sew the tip back on and see if it would live, but there wasn't too much of a chance that it would. We thought we would try mostly for the fact that we could tell Koen later in life that we tried and also for all we knew it could possibly work.

 Koen was so tough. He only cried for seriously about 5 minutes and then was pretty calm. He cried again when the doctor numbed his finger, but hasn't complained one bit since. He is a trooper. It's amazing the pain tolerance these little guys have.

It cut the finger down to the bottom of his nail and it was on the side of the door with the hinges. After the doctor sewed it back on, he proceeded to tell Koen that there were spiders on his finger. He was not so sure about that. Who tells a little kid that there are bugs on them? Every time he looks at his bandage he says that the bugs are gone.

He was so brave to look at it and let daddy switch the bandage. We went into the doctor on Saturday night to have him check it and he wasn't sure the finger tip would take. He wanted to give it a couple more days, so we go back today to see for sure. If it doesn't take, they will take the tip back off and let the open finger scar over on its own along with a few stitches.

Koen is doing really good and it doesn't seem to phase him too bad. It definitely hasn't slowed him down. I think it affected me and Scott more than it did him. He is a trooper and being such a big boy. We are so grateful that it wasn't any worse. Hopefully I can learn from this and be a little more careful. It was definitely a day of a rollercoaster of emotions. It just makes me sick to think about. It's terrible to watch your kids be in pain (especially when you were the cause). I know it was an accident, but it's just the fact that it happened. Hopefully the doctor will have good news for us today - if so, it will be a miracle. We'll see!