Boo Boo ...

So Alexis had her first REAL accident a week ago today. While I was putting away her dinner dishes, my daughter who loves to explore now, pulled a old fashioned metal iron down on her thumb. Immediately her thumb swelled up and her nail was all white. I was extremely upset at myself, could not believe what had happened. The next couple of days were not much better. The nail turned completely black (blood underneath) and her thumb was really red and swollen. Wednesday my mom took me and her to the doctors so they could look at it and make sure it was not broken. The doctor checked it out and said it was really swollen, but that she would not know the extent of the damage to the nail until it (the nail) either grew more or fell off. Great .... no nail. She said the worst case scenario would be that the nail would not grow back. And I was devastated once again! Thursday it started to look a little better, less swollen, but still black, blue and red. Then Friday while hanging out with her Aunt Ashley, she noticed it was bleeding a bit. The blood that was all stuck under her nail slowly came out, and within hours, the nail looks so much better. Even a week later and the nail is back to its original colour and is less swollen. I know this will not be the last time she hurts herself, but as a mother you cannot help but feel bad when they hurt themselves.

Here are some pictures of it two days after it had happened. The pictures I do not feel really show the true extent of what the thumb looked like.

You can see how swollen the thumb is compared to her other fingers