Friday, April 17, 2009

Kymbree's surgery

As you probably already know about 2 months ago, Kymbree cut her finger in a fan and it almost cut her finger off. It broke the bone all the way through. When we went back to the doctor 3 weeks later they took x-rays and found that the bone did not reattach and she said that the bone had died and she didn't really know what to do about it but told me to come back in 3 months. Well I didn't like that answer so I went to get another opinion. This doctor told me that her finger couldn't have died because if it did then the tip of her finger would have turned black and fallen off or needed to be taken off. So long story short, he wanted to try and pin the bone back together. He told us that if when he got into her finger he would see if he thought it would work and heal to pin it and if he didn't he would just take her finger tip off right then so that we wouldn't have to do another surgery later. So we took her in on Wednesday and it's good news. He got into her finger and totally reconstructed it. He fixed the nailbed and pinned the bones together and now we are waiting for 6 weeks to take the cast off and take the pin out and take x-rays to see if it healed so we are not out of the woods just yet but we are very hopeful that everything will go well. Thank you for your prayers for our sweet baby.

She was smiling in these pictures but the delay on my camera really messes me up. I need to figure out how to take care of that.

In her hopital jammies.


Happy baby after the surgery.

4 comments:

K S & R said...

Oh I'm so glad everything went ok!! What a cutie! She's so tough

Brooke said...

I'm so glad she did so well! Now hopefully the next 6 weeks fly by for you so you can see how it looks.

Ali said...

Wow I had no idea! Sounds like things are good now. Glad you trusted your instincts and got further help. That was probably so hard to see your baby go into surgery! She is such a cutie. Please let me know if you need any help. I love all your new posts- what beautiful girls you have- and fun traditions!

Taren said...

What a big girl. How sad!!! I'm glad she is doing well. It looks like someone was watching over her.