Precious Fingers

There are things you don't realize with 2 children that are hazards that were not with just one. I guess that is the best way to say it.

Yesterday, I was waiting for the doctor's office to call me back. I have had a sinus infection that has spread over the past 3 weeks. At first I took no medication, then last week took Robitussin (on doctor's advice). I've been very cautious since I'm still nursing. I wasn't looking forward to seeing the doctor, since we've been there a lot lately it seems for the girls. By 3pm I still had not heard from the doctor and I started working on putting summer things into my drawers from the attic. Both girls were awake. Nicole took a super short nap & Natalie decided no nap was for her. I quickly was throwing things on the bed to sort into drawers later. Nicole was crawling around in the room. When Natalie decided to go to the bathroom, Nicole crawled after her. I went and picked her up since Natalie was calling for privacy. But, Nicole loves her big sister and crawled right back. By then, Natalie was done but still wanted privacy. So, she shoved the bathroom door towards the closed position. The bad thing was that Nicole was right past the threshold with her little left hand apparently out first. The door caught her fourth fingernail and raised it from the nailbed. I didn't know this at the time, so I just thought she had been bumped by the door. But, I quickly saw the nail start bleeding and realized what had happened. So, we all piled into the car and zoomed to the doctor office.

The blessing was that it appears that the finger is not broken, and the fingernail stayed on enough to cover the nailbed to keep out infection. This morning, the first joint to the finger is still red-pink but no pus or any other signs of infection. A bandaid or bandage would just have her gnaw on it and possibly choke, so just trying to keep it clean and ointment on it. Praying for healing and no infection!

I'm also on antibiotics now, so praying to feel much better. And, praying for no more sisterly accidents!