Brooklynds Finger!

On Monday October 29th we had an unexpected emergency while the kids were at daycare. Brooklynd cut his left ring finger tip off of his finger with a pair of scissors - we do not know exactly how it happened, his care provider was out of the room, without getting into too much detail here is the jist of it! He was taken to the OHSU Emergency Room Monday just after noon where they x-rayed him. The orthopedic surgeon decided they would go into surgery with an open mind to reattach and see what they could do once they looked at the finger tip and the finger. They called us 2 hours into the surgery to let us know that they were going to attempt reattachment, he was in surgery for a total of 4.5 hours and was put in ICU once he came out of the anesthesia. The surgery was successful so for the next 5 days it was just a waiting game to see if the fingertip survived (the first five days are the most critical!). It did and we left the hospital 5 days later on Saturday afternoon. He was on blood thinners the entire 5 days until Saturday morning and therefore he ended up needing 2 blood transfusion, it all went smoothly but scared us to death! It was an uphill battle but Brooklynd's a fighter. He left with a full mitten cast and will return in 2 weeks to have it removed, hopefully the finger tip has lived and he will be on the fast track to rehabilitation and recovery. Thank you for all of your support in our difficult time! We are grateful to have such awesome friends and family! Here are a few pics of the little munchkin!

Doernbecher Pediatric ICU

Getting cheerios in intermediate care
His surgeon
Kissing his puppy (the nurses in ICU gave him!)

Sleeping...sweet boy

Loving his balloon

Happy Halloween (in ICU)

Brushing his teeth like a big boy!