The ouchie finger incident

Around the 2nd week in December, on a Wednesday, Kaylin had just woke up from a wonderful 3 hour nap. I called her to come downstairs, but she decided that it would be much more fun to play in the bathroom sink than to come downstairs. So I went up to get her out of the bathroom and she threw a temper tantrum in the doorway of the bathroom - I was pulling the door shut behind me when she let out a yelp and I looked at her finger and saw blood. "Oh my Gosh I pinched her little finger in the door!!!" I thought to myself. So I took her over to the sink to run it under some cold water. As soon as the water hit her finger, the whole tip of it flipped back - and I, of course, let out a horrified scream (or 10). All but about 1/8" of the whole tip of her left ring finger was cut off - I was seriously freaking out. So I ran to the phone and called 911, and off we were to the ER in an ambulance. I must've waited in the ER with her poor little finger like that for about 2 hours when they finally sewed it back on. It was HORRIBLE. They put her in a papoose (which is a really nice way of saying full body straight jacket for babies) to do this. The Dr. was really comforting though - he made sure to let me know that her little finger tip was probably not going to survive and was going to turn black and fall off anyways. So she was going to have a short finger for the rest of her life (this made me feel SO much better!). So I was to follow up with a hand surgeon ASAP - which of course we needed to get approved by our primary dr. - and by the time we actually got the approval, everything was closed for the weekend. So we were told to the ER at Loyola (a nice 1hr. trip) seeing as they had a hand surgeon on staff there. So back we went to the ER 2 days later to have them put her in full arm cast. When we finally did get to the hand surgeon, he took everything off and said all she needed was BAND AID! And her finger would be fine! Talk about a healing! Even the Dr. there said that God did a work on her hand and healed it. It was a horrible, horrible experience to see my little baby have to go through all that - but wonderfully amazing to see how she was healed. Today, her nail is starting to grow back and her finger looks wonderful!