some updates....
She is talking even more, if that is possible, than ever. Constantly. It is fun and sometimes exhausting. Her new thing is to look at the clock....wait. Her first new thing is to get up at 6:30 am which I could do without! :) BUT anyway then about 7:30, which is when Daddy's alarm is about to go off, she says, "It is time for Daddy now Mommy! Can I go knock on the door?" Then she will proceed to our bedroom and knock until Daddy answers. We open the door and I let her in to see Daddy. She is such a Daddy's girl! Loves her Daddy.
Not so much fun....she got second degree burns on her right hand a couple of weeks ago. On June 27th she was playing in a fire/ash pile in the backyard. We had not burned anything for a couple of days in there so we were not concerned. She managed of course to find hot coals and ended up with second degree burns on her right fingers. Her index finger was worst. There were burns however on the rest of her fingers as well. We placed her hand in cold water and then tried to decided whether to take her to the hospital or not, not being too sure yet how bad it was. When we tried to take her little hand out of the water she would freak out crying, who can blame her, and beg us to put it back in. We decided that we had to take her in. A few hours later and a shot of morphine for Josey we find out that they are indeed second degree burns and we have to bandage her little hand up like a glove and leave it that way for a while until the blisters pop and the hand can be debreded(doc speak for removing the dead burned skin.) This means no swimming and playing because we need to keep it dry and clean and the blisters in tact as long as possible. Here are some of the early shots...
You can see how big her little index finger was...
And of course her bunny had to have a bandage too....although it did not last long.
So on Saturday we went to change her bandage and noticed that her major blister had popped so we decided that on Sunday we would take her in to the ER again to have them do the debreding(doc speak for torture I now know!) We took her in and they proceeded to cut the dead skin off her finger....this was a hellish process. She was crying, apparently some parts of this process hurt her, and the skin was coming off bloody in spots. I tried hard not to pass out, I have never reacted to the sight of blood this way BUT it was my baby girls blood you know? And she was obviously in pain which no parent likes to see. Daddy was even grimacing. They decided to stop that process and told us that they wanted us to take her to the local University hospital burn unit. This of course scares us into wondering why...but basically with her age and the fact that the burn went all the way around her finger they wanted to be sure we did the right thing. Ok we say...no problem. We get an appt. for the next day and go on about our Sunday.
Next day we go to the burn appt. I am ready for a marathon, I think that part of the plan is more debreding and some exams etc. We have been to the University for numerous reasons and while I trust their medical knowledge and expertise I know that a short appt. can become an all day deal...it can sometimes! I go down with extra clothes for her, a ton of diapers, snacks and am prepared to stay the night if we have to! Yeah maybe I over reacted a bit! :0) We get down there, get taken to an exam area and the nurse takes off Josey's bandage. SHe looks at her fingers/hand and says, "she is fine." The skin on her finger was pink and shiny which is apparently a good thing, means new skin was growing, and otherwise all looked good. We were in and out of there in 20 minutes! That was the shortest appt we have EVER had and we have been going there for almost 4 years! But how great to know that she was fine! Here is an after shot of the hand....and it looks even better now.
Well, Josey is wanting some one on one time with Mommy so I am going to close this. I will update later this week/end with some more info...she is just too funny these days and I want to tell you all about it! But the burn is the biggest thing in our world lately! :) More later...love to all!
Here is Josey feeding horses at Grandma Janes...
and here she seems to be addressing her people!
