WARNING!!! Not for the weak!

A few pictures to make you smile before we get to the gore.

Cute Kathryn at the National Bison Range in Moise, Montana. On a Sunday afternoon drive.
Me having hot cocoa at the Lolo Pass on the border of Idaho and Montana on a different Sunday afternoon drive. It was actually snowing, but I'm not sure if you can tell. Obviously my husband has been playing with this picture. Now on to business...

Mary keeps asking me to post a blog on Kathryn's fingers. She said "you posted Jack's burn so why haven't you posted Kathryn's fingers?" Honestly I was trying to protect all of you from the horror of seeing these sweet little fingers injured. So don't look if you can't handle it. I didn't post any pretreatment pic's. This is the email I sent Becky, Mary, and Lisa to tell them what happened. Talk about dramatic...

Prepare to be horrified as it was a horrific evening with a brave little Kathryn.

We went out to dinner last night with the Little's and the missionary's at Red Robin. Kathryn and James had a new toy. They both had a Hex Bug Nano http://www.hexbug.com/nano

They are really fun and fast little toys. They played with them all through dinner, they put the bugs on dessert plates and they just raced around in circles and entertained them all through the meal. After dinner the table next to us was clean and empty so Kathryn was racing her bug on it and it zipped away from her. She jumped up on the table to reach the bug and the table flipped, somehow Kathryn ended up under the table and when I lifted the table she just looked dazed.

I picked her up and Rebekah said "I see blood". I looked down and blood was flowing fast from Kathryn's fingers. I grabbed a napkin and applied pressure handed Kathryn to Chris and said we need to go to the hospital now. I didn't get a super good look at her fingers, but from what I saw I thought one finger might be almost cut off. We ran to the car and blasted to the hospital and ran her right in fast. When I got a good look at her fingers I started to cry. It was really horrible.

She actually cut two fingers on the soft side of the finger right before the first knuckle( but the opposite side). The doctor discussed putting Kathryn to sleep so she wouldn't fight him while he cared for her, but he opted to give her a nasal spray of Verset which is like Valium and helps her relax. She never really cried at all except when they gave her two shots one in each finger. Once her fingers were completely numb they x-rayed them to make sure nothing was broken. Actually one finger is broken, but I don't remember which one. It is the two middle fingers on her right hand that are hurt. She ended up getting 7 stitches in one finger and 4 stitches in the other. She was amazingly brave. Dad and Jared gave her a blessing. Kathryn was incredible the whole time. She and I didn't look I guarded her eyes the whole time and she laid

on Daddy's lap the whole time we were there. We did video the fingers before they were sewn up on Jared's ipod, but I doubt anyone wants to see the video.

Kathryn hasn't slowed down even though she has an injury. Luckily it is her right hand and she is left handed. She has been doing lots of writing. Practicing spelling. Her fingers aren't in a splint like that anymore. They were just in a splint for the first 24 hours.
This finger is cut in a half moon shape. It has 4 little stitches.
This finger is cut in a U shape, it has 7 stitches, and the tip of the finger is also broken.

It has now been exactly one week since the injury. Kathryn is healing nicely (we think?).

We did take her to see a specialist just to make sure we were taking care of everything we needed to and doing everything correctly. He doesn't think she'll have any long term problems just some bad scaring for a few years that will fade over time. Kathryn did say to me "Is this my wedding ring finger?" so she's been a little worried too. She hasn't had a lot of pain, because she guards her fingers really well. The worst pain has been when we remove the bandages to put clean ones on. She gets the stitches out Monday afternoon if the doctor thinks it looks ready and that is going to be a nightmare. I'm sure that will hurt a lot. As long as we're at it we might really torture her and have her get the flu shot too. Is that to cruel? Anxious for this ordeal to be over. It hasn't been fun for Kathryn. She said "If the Little's call and say "Let's go out to eat at Red Robin tonight" you say No we are not going to Red Robin ever again!"

On a side note, Jack has been drawing a lot lately. He has been taking a "controversial" after school class on graffiti. He is totally into it. There is a place in Missoula where you can go practice graffiti without getting arrested. He hasn't gone yet, but is looking forward to it.