Benson actually fell asleep in my arms on the way there. His finger soaked an entire burpcloth - those really thick white ones. When we got there I was surprised the ER was completely empty. They got us into an exam room and the bleeding had stopped enough to get a good look. So gross. It was sliced more than 3/4 thru.
X-rays showed he just barely missed the bone which could have easily been crushed. So that was good news. But they would have to put him "mostly under" to keep him still enough to suture it back together. After telling us that we would probably want to leave the room while they put his IV in, the nurse came back with only 1 guy! So guess what, we had to help hold him down. Anyone that has had their kid get an IV totally gets that its the saddest thing ever!
It was nice to be able to stay right by him while they worked on it.
He ended up with 8 stitches - 3 on each side of his finger and 2 through his nailbed to keep it all together.
It was a really long night but Benson has hardly noticed his 'sock puppet' arm.
It doesn't seem to hurt for him to crawl on it but I think its motivated him to try walking more. He's been doing so good - walked about 8 steps this morning :)
