It was a normal day in the Allred home. Kids being kids. They were dancing to music (fun kid CDs) and I thought I'd get ready for the day. It was noon. The girls came down with Emily in tears. Avery told me Jake kicked her finger. It didn't look bad to me so I offered ice and blew it off since she calmed down. I talked to Jake and the story was that Emily was reaching down to get a ball and Jake decided to kick the ball but got Emily's finger instead. It was an accident. Yes, they are too rough at times but this truly was an accident.
This is the ball that Emmy was getting. It's larger than a softball but not very big. Just an air filled rubber ball.
This was day 2. We had just gotten back from the dr and saw the x-rays of her broken finger. It was like a triangle broken right at the first joint on her right pinky. We were sent home to wait for what the specialist thought. Avery and Jake decided to do something for Emily so they gathered a few random items, wrote her a get well card, and put it in a little purse. She loved it!
Finding all sorts of treasure from Jake and Avery. If you click on this picture it should enlarge and you can see her broken pinky finger- it looks like you can see the bone but it's purplish. It's weird! Almost freaky! (Ok Spencer just said it's probably the bone! Ewww! Poor baby!!)
She was not having a good day. It made me sad for her. The kids did their best to try to cheer her up.
That afternoon I was told that the "specialist" didn't specialize in hands and so he forwarded Emily's x-rays to a hand specialist. That evening I got a call that the "hand specialist" wanted to "re-set her finger "so she'd have to have surgery the next day. No food or drink after midnight. Spencer was working at the fire station so I was having a little breakdown that my little baby girl had to have surgery all from getting her finger kicked by her brother. And he wasn't even wearing shoes! It was unbelievable and overwhelming to me! It was perfect though because it was Emily's turn for 1 on 1 that night ( I take turns having 1 on 1s with the kids when Spencer is at the fire station. We talk or play a game. Just the two of us.) Well, Emily wanted to have her nails painted. Pink. Blue. Pink. Blue. With white glitter.
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Day 3. This is my terrible doctoring job. We had a splint and I taped her fingers together like the dr had done on our visit. This was the morning of her surgery. Before she left with Spencer.
Morning of my girls cuddling on my bed. I think we were all nervous about what the day would bring. She had to be there at 9:30 downtown.
We picked out an outfit and I did her hair in two braids- just the way she likes it. The game on my phone kept her distracted from not being able to have breakfast.
Besides the sticky lint fuzz from the tape, her finger "looks" fine. A tad swollen. I would have NEVER thought it would have broken after what happened!
This is my baby at the hospital ready for her surgery. When I had my surgery about a month ago they tried to call those blue caps a "party hat". Some party, huh!?
It was good that Spencer took her (in uniform too by the way!) because I cried so much that day. I was so nervous for her! The kids & I kept busy getting a few gifts for her to come home to. They used the mask with gas to put her under before hooking her up to any monitors and iv's but it was terrible, they didn't let Spencer be with her until she went down! They wheeled her down the hall screaming & crying!! (I would have raised all he** if I was there! The crazy Mom needs to be with her baby!) But Spencer mentioned it to the staff and I sure hope they are more aware of how traumatizing that can be for kids! Unfortunately, she does still remember that part which makes me very sad!
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I cried seeing this picture too. I was at the store with the kids and I was glad that it went well and she was doing alright but this picture is sooo sad. She's still groggy from the meds. When Spencer asked her how she was doing she looked at him, gave him a "thumbs up", and laid back down. The specialist had to use pins and wires to reset her little finger. Break my heart!!
My baby finally home and next to me. She had gotten sick on the way home but was struggling with having an empty tummy & feeling a bit ill and tired from the meds wearing off. I remember how beat I felt. Just exhausted.
She was feeling a bit better by bedtime and was a bit hungry. It was plain & simple for the little tummy: a little bit of applesauce and graham crackers.
1st day after surgery. I wanted to keep Emily close so I had her camp out in my bedroom. After doing our chores the kids couldn't stay away from her anymore. Or maybe it was because she was watching a bunch of movies and they wanted to watch Megamind too. I love this one with them all surrounding her. I mean the computer.
So Emily's pinky was compared to an ice cream falling off it's cone. The hand specialist had to put the "ice cream" back on it's cone. She has to wear this splint that goes up her arm for a little over a week. And since it's taken me about that long to post this....she will be getting a cast (pink of course!) in two days. The pins and wires will come out. She'll have to have the cast on for about 4- 6 weeks.
