Another injury for Camden

Sunday evening I was in the kitchen cleaning up after dinner and all the girls were in Camden and Claire's room playing. All of a sudden I hear Camden screaming as she comes running in the kitchen. As she is screaming that there is blood on her hand, she is waving her hand all around, flinging blood EVERYWHERE!! The kitchen and hallway seriously looked like a murder scene with all the blood. Apparently, Claire had slammed the bedroom door (which is about as heavy, if not heavier, than our front door) and Camden's hand got caught in it. I had Jeremy come look at it and we tried to get as much blood off as we could. It looked horrible!! As heavy as the door is, we're surprised that her finger was still attached. Just a sidenote...Camden is very dramatic, especially when it comes to injuries. Claire can fall and scrape her knee and she might cry for literally 5 seconds, then she's off playing again. Camden can get the same injury and she will carry on about her knee for hours...how she can't walk on it, how she can't run, how it hurts, how she needs medicine or a band-aid, etc... So, needless to say, this injury was very painful and she cried and cried and cried. Anyway, her nail bled and bled and bled...for 6 hours!!! What a long night! We immediately put ice on her finger to help with swelling and we continued to apply pressure. We thought we had it stopped, so we wrapped it and she went and got in bed. She got up to get a pillow for her hand to rest on and we noticed it was bleeding through the gauze. After consulting with a doctor friend and Jeremy's sister who is a nurse, we knew if we couldn't get the bleeding to stop that we were going to have to take her to the ER. We got ice cold water and held her finger in it for 10 minutes at a time. As you can imagine, she was NOT a fan of that. But, it seemed to help and after the third time, the bleeding was very minimal. We finally went to bed around 12:30am. What an exhausting night!!

The next day Camden went to God's Kids as planned. The ladies in charge took extra care of Camden and watched out for her "fragile" finger. When I picked her up, a friend whose husband is a doctor, offered for her husband to look at it just to make sure it didn't need any stitches. We ran by to see Mr. Ben and he suggested that he try and move the nail back into place. He also informed us that the finger was broken. So, in order to allow him to work on the nail, he needed to numb it, which meant 3 shots. That was lots of fun, especially with 2 other kids in the room with us. I had to hold Camden down and as she is screaming because of the shots, Claire grabs my legs and starts crying because of Camden and Carlyle is running around the room, opening drawers and cabinets, pulling out gowns, sheets, rubbing alcohol and is trying to drink iodine. It was absolutely CRAZY!!! But, we survived! Mr. Ben was so nice and put a splint on Camden's finger so that she couldn't bend it. That was the only way for the nail to stay in place. He also prescribed an antibiotic because he was concerned that she might get staph from the open wound. So, we left there at 5:00pm, headed to the pharmacy to wait on the meds. Again, I'm sure we were quite the entertainment as Carlyle ran around all the aisles, grabbing hand sanitizer, vitamins and anything that looked interesting. I stopped on the way home and picked up dinner because it was so late and because I was exhausted!! After dinner and baths, all 3 girls went to bed. Talk about a FULL DAY!!! I'm just so thankful that Mr. Ben took the time to check out Camden's finger and was willing to help us out. I'm just hoping that her finger will heal quickly and that the soreness will go away very soon!! Camden was such a trooper and was so brave!! I'm just hoping this is the last injury for a long, long time!!


Camden and Claire watching TV while we wait on the doctor.
Poor little finger.
After a full day at God's Kids, a couple hours at the clinic getting her finger worked on, and waiting at the pharmacy for her meds, she fell asleep on the way home with a sucker in her mouth.
Camden's broken and injured finger