WARNING * Somewhat Graphic pics

So my New Years was basically uneventful. I spent the night at work stabbing people in the arm with needles. Not my ideal celebratory situation but it worked. I got home about 6 am and went to sleep. I was then woken up at 10 with Bailey crying, so I got up to see what she was crying about and I found my Dad carrying her ( I didn't have my glasses one mind you) as I got closer I saw that her hand was covered with blood. My Dad ran her upstairs and I ran to get my glasses. I got up stairs and ran her hand under some water and still couldn't find the source and the blood was already clotting and I didn't want to hurt her. We got it cleaned up as much as we needed to be able to tell that yes she did need medical attention. So I loaded her up and took her to the hospital.

The funniest thing to me was how woosie I got looking at this relatively small cut. I have seen a lot worse at work. I think the fact that I rushed out of bed and hadn't eaten anything didn't help. But I have just come to terms with the fact that when my kids are hurt I am no help.

When at the hospital (on 4 hours of sleep) Bailey was most worried about getting an IV and I tried to make her feel better and told her that she would most defiantly not get one of those. But I didn't want to tell her that they might have to numb her up, which in my opinion hurts much much worse than an IV ever would. The Doctor was very nice and came and took a look at it. Her wound is a little flap of skin that gets deeper as it goes, so the outsides of the flap are pretty superficial but the deepest part definitely needed some help staying closed. So he presented me with the option of Stitches or Dermabond (a medical super glue) With where the cut is I was a little apprehensive of the Dermabond (still am) but he assured me that its just as effected and less traumatic. I am all for less traumatic so we decided to go with that. They cleaned it very well and then he glued the edges closed and then put a thin layer all around her thumb to create a protective 'glove'. We were to keep it covered with a band aid so A) Bailey couldn't see it and B) a little extra protection.*Sidenote* I would like to point out that I suggested COBAN for this * I was told that the band aid wouldn't hurt or remove the Dermabond. The Dermabond would start to come off in 7 to 10 days and all is well in the world. It all sounds great in theory doesn't it?



Well the cheap band aid that they put on her started to have the sticky seep through to the out side and was snagging on everything and causing Bailey pain so I decided we should change it to a different kind and see if that helped. Well I couldn't get that dang bandaid off, and when it did start to come off so did the Dermabond. With the bandaid part off I could also see that she continued to bleed some after the Dermabond was applied, creating a pocket of blood. HOORAY. My poor little one has already had to go to the ER once today and now what they did isn't working. So I called the ER to see what I should do, they told me to come back in. Yeah right , I am not going in at night when you have to sit there for 5 hours. So I looked at the wound and it looks to all be covered with Dermabond and I made sure I couldn't see and new blood wrapped that sucker up good with some coban and am going to take her to our favorite Dr. Nielson in the morning.