Lil's First (Bad) Boo Boo.

We went to Branson last weekend for a little pre-Christmas, mini vacation (post and pics coming soon). We decided to leave a day early, and arrived in Branson late Friday night/early Saturday morning around 1 a.m. On Saturday morning we did a little shopping at the Landing and then met my parents that afternoon to see the show, The Miracle of Christmas. It was an amazing show about the birth of Jesus and the true meaning of Christmas...an outstanding production! After the show we headed to the hotel to check in to our suite and that's when IT happened...
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Jeb was unloading luggage, I was helping mom check in at the front desk, and the kids were running around...being kids...in the lobby. LilliAnn kind of lost her balance and reached for the velvet rope (you know, the two metal stands with a velvet rope between them that you see outside/and in the lobby of hotels, restaurants, and clubs when you're standing in line?), and the huge, heavy metal stand pulled her down and crushed her little fingers! It was only inches from hitting her head!! I immediately knew that it was fractured because of the instant severe swelling and the bruise that circled around the base of her finger. We hurried to the ER, which, thankfully, was just down the street.
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The doctor told me that it was probably fine because "little ones have mushy bones and she most likely just smashed it and bursted a blood vessel to cause the severe bruising." I hadn't told him I was a nurse practitioner yet, and just stated that I'm sure it's fractured and could he go ahead and take a look at the x-rays. Sure enough...fracture of her right 4th proximal phalanx!


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Here's my sweet baby girl, worn out in the ER after she got her hand wrapped and splinted. For such a bad boo boo she was a very brave girl!


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It has been difficult to keep the splint on. We've had to rewrap it several times, and the ortho doc has re-splinted it twice already!


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She kept telling us, "my boo is hurtin'" and "my tinger is hurtin' weally bad, mommy." It looked horrible! Her entire finger and even her palm were bruised!


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We went and saw ortho yesterday. We had more x-rays done and the good news...it's already healing, the bad news...it has angulated just a bit so it's really important to keep it splinted. We follow-up next week and hopefully, after about a month, the splint will come off. Despite LilliAnn's injury, we had a wonderful family trip to Branson and a great ER experience at Skaggs Medical Center! Stay tuned for updates on Lil's progress...