Just Your Average Every Day Trip to the ER

I've never been to an emergency room. NEVER. I think that's actually quite impressive-- I'm almost 28 years old, I have 2 kids, and my husband has been probably more times than he can count. But me? Nope. Never. I found myself very fortunate, up until yesterday when there was a little incident in our home involving a pair of fabric scissors, a devious 2 year old, and a precocious 4 year old who thinks she can do anything she wants.

I was in another room when I heard some serious screaming-- I recognized it from the many of my children’s cries as Lucy's "help-I've-either-done-something-reeeeally-bad-or-I'm-HURT!" cry. I knew things were serious, especially when I got to the master bathroom and saw blood all over the floor and it dripping down Lucy's hand and onto her feet and I'm like, "What the heck happened?!?" Mother of the year award…

Apparently Lucy wanted to cut some ribbon to play with so she found my fabric scissors, but when she wouldn't share Zachy got mad and grabbed them from her and accidentally (well, that's debatable) chopped through her finger! After a good 10 minutes I couldn't staunch the bleeding, so I began to worry she needed stitches. Guh. She is a total drama queen and I knew it would be a huge ordeal to take her in, get it numbed up, and then put in stitches, but slappin’ a band-aid on (which was my vote) just didn’t seem like it would cut it (no pun intended).

Ten minutes later we were on our way to the ER on base. Luckily they weren’t busy and they got her right in to look at her finger. They debated about whether or not to do stitches, but finally decided to just to glue it together with Derma-bond and see if that would hold it together to avoid traumatizing her with all the needles. A day and half later its popped back open but isn't bleeding, so we'll see what happens... She seems more concerned with missing out on swimming lessons than her "owie," plus I survived my first trip to the ER. And I’m sure there will be many more in our future (Zachy is just getting started!).

The pictures don't do it justice-- it's cut through literally from the tip to the first knuckle and was GAPING open before they glued it. Gross!