Oh Dee that sounds worse than I thought from your first post I can understand how it would have been hard to keep it together! Bree's lucky to have an ex nurse as her mummy. I'm sure it must be so painful but at least she can trust you to know how to look after it and work out what is the best way of helping it to heal. What did the doctors mean by amputate? Would that involve removing bone? Seems odd. Is the area too small to try a tissue graft? I can imagine that the tip would need tidying up but removing bone sounds a bit extreme for aesthetics's sake. By "lose it" do they mean circulation has been damaged? Sorry for all the questions... I guess i'm wondering how I would cope making these decisions for my child. The pain must be the biggest issue though for her? Finger injuries are very painful as you'd know... I had deep scarring on the side of my index finger when an aerosol can exploded and molten metal ripped away a lot of the skin off the side of it... I can still remember the pain even though I was a child (12). The girls were right: a pure accident, any parent would have made the same decision. I send my nearly 13yo off with my 4yo to public toilets all the time. Geeze the door must have been heavy? Anyhow it'll be a relief to have Michael home! Keep us updated!