Dee- who hasnt let there older child take the younger ones to the loo or anywhere when you have the others to look after, what a fricky accident to happen. Was it just the tip or the whole finger? hope you both are feeling a little bit better today. Just remember its not your fault its what you would tell me if it happen to one of mine so if it wouldnt have been my fault then it cant be yours.
sorry cant post right now can hear Kai having a field day opening gifts under the tree..... again!!!!!
time for more sticky tape repair....
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!
I'll try and answer them. They are saying that yes Melissa is too little for tissue grafting but once she is grown she can have the reconstruction done then BUT they also said that because the damage to that first section of her finger is so extensive, they really don't think it will heal itself enough to be functional and really should be amputated to the first knuckle, so they would like to cut her finger at the top knuckle bone and all and try to close it over with a flap of skin and tissue from the thumb side of her middle finger which would leave it forever stumpy and shorter then her other fingers. I disagree, that is why we are doing the dressing route, I would rather do the see her grow new tissue given time as it will take months of continuous dressings then say to hell with it chop it off Dr cause that is easier and way less hard work. I just think that if we can get it to grow new skin over it we can look forward down the track to a tissue graft I know it will be long and arduous but this is my baby. If it doesn't work well then atleast I can say that I tried very hard to save it. She is on pain stop 4-6 hrly and she has antibiotics, her dressing needs to stay intact for 10 days, I've been putting a very light bandage on top for the dirt factor, she is right handed and keeps trying to use her hand, it's very messy. She is running around semi naked at home because she keps peeing her pants in the toilet my poor baby as she can't whip her knickers down and doesn't sing out when she needs to go, My little miss Independant. I can see it evertime I close my eyes and even as I sit her now I keep covering my mouth and cringing, I am hopeless when it is my Kids, give me someone elses with the same thing not a prop, un effected to a certain degree, but I just fall to pieces when it is my child. I can still count the number of time I've been to the hospital with my children on one hand and still have fingers to wriggle, and with 5 of them I think that is pretty good odds. 
for you all .
then DH is on annual leave until early Jan 
everyone i missed!
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