the nurse took this picture and sent it to me!This afternoon, Sean came up to me and he had an orange plastic part of his toy gun stuck on his middle finger. It had broken off of his toy. I tried not to panic, at first and pulled on it. He then, screamed and I realized that I might break his finger. I called Kenny and he was 40 min. away. I poured oil on his finger and tried again with no luck. Kenny came home and soaked it in oil and then used some small pliers and cut some of it back, but it still wouldn't come off. So, we headed to the ER. The nurses took us in right away because his finger was swelling and I think they thought that they could quickly take it off. Well, they were wrong. A doctor came in right away and even he seemed perplexed. I quickly hit panic mode when a dirty, oily maintenance guy came in with some huge pliers! They sent him away and finally one of the nurses remembered that she had some nail scissors with her that are used to cut back acrylic nails. With 3 of us holding Sean, the nurse and the doctor took turns cutting the plastic and finally, Sean could see his finger. He was the darling of the ER. One nurse brought him stickers while another took him to get apple juice and brought him back to us by giving him a piggy back ride! The swelling quickly went down and so did my heart rate. Kenny drove us straight to get ice cream for Sean and he got a lot of hugs and kisses!
