Dec 1-3, 2010, A Finger Trial

My brave little girl. I was proud of her for being brave.

Going potty before the surgery. She was quite brave. She was still crying when they took her away, so I was too. She doesn't remember it though. Good thing:) The surgeon only did one incision and removed the dead skin on top of the finger. We will see what it looks like in three days. Monday we go back to the Dr for him to remove it.

She woke up ready to go. Look at her little smile. 6:00 am!

We had several visitors. Mom and dad, Heather and Gary, Sherry, Devin and Drew. The next morning, Pastor Joe and Paula and Lily came. Elli did say she didn't want too many people to come because she didn't want to give anyone her infection. She got several goodies while here from visitors. She really did like some parts of her stay.

We got all ready for bed, Brent went home, and then the nurse came in and said Elli needed to put on a different gown. She screamed at the top of her lungs, at 9:30 at night, that she was, "Not wearing that. It is ugly, ugly, ugly." She wore it:) As we were finally going to sleep again, in the same bed, she was telling me how much she loved me. She said, "I love you all over the whole world, even China, and all the way to moon, all the way to the sun, and even all the way to God." Love her too, more than she can even name.

IV in, medicine on shirt, hurt finger propped up, watching TV. Poor little baby.

When she went for x-rays, I told her it was like getting her picture taken just like we did on Tuesday for Christmas pictures. So, when she was set up she started smiling while they took her x-rays. No bone infecton:)

When we checked in, they gave her this pink blanket. Look at that poor little finger.

Wednesday, Dec 1, we noticed Elli had an infected finger tip. Brent poked a needle in it that night and got some green puss out but it was not enough. Throughout the night we did not sleep much due to Elli's pain. Her entire finger swelled and even into her hand and wrist. Brent took her to the Dr. Thursday morning and they sent us right to the hospital where they said we would stay the night at least. Upon arrival, the orthopedic surgeon checked her out and thought we might take her irhgt into surgery. The final decision though was to put her on IV antibiotic and do surgery Friday morning. Elli did pretty well though she cried quite a bit. She got upset at everyone that came in the room assuming the worst.

Due to the look of her finger, several residents came in to take a look. It did look terrible.

The nurse drew lines around all the red infected areas on her hand and wrist. Elli told her she didn't draw a very good picture:)