Approximately 1 week after we moved into our new place here in
Las Vegas we were out front playing and riding bikes...the usual playing outside with neighbor friends. It was a gorgeous day, high of 72 degrees. I was pulling some weeds to be a little productive while I watched the girls play. Daphne was crawling around in the grass. She started crawling up the steps to the front porch. I needed to go throw the weeds away so I made sure she cleared the steps and wouldn't fall back. I quickly threw the weeds away in the trash can in the garage (10 feet away) and heard Daphne scream. I ran to her and saw her frozen with her hands on the door. I felt the door and it was kind of hot. (Once again, the high was 72 degrees that day) The sun was setting so it was shining on the door
apparently making it hot! Who would have known!
I took her inside ran cool water on them, tried to have her hold a semi-thawed bag of frozen corn (we had just gone to Costco to get stocked up in our new place). She had nothing to do with any of it. She just kept wiping her hands down the front of her. Kind of like she was trying to push her own hands away! So sad! She hadn't really gotten a good nap that day because of the Costco run, so she was tired. I figured I would just get her ready for bed, feed her a bottle since it is something cold she could hold too. She drank it and was kind of okay. I tried to lay her down thinking she could just go to sleep and get past the pain, but she was NOT settling down. You could tell she was in pain! Her hands looked red with maybe a few little white-
ish spots that might progress into a blister but not really from what I could tell. Mostly they were red. I didn't know if I was over reacting or not enough!
I called a friend who is a fire fighter and he suggested I should take her in. As I started to load her in the car he called back and said he has a friend at the local station by the house that was on duty and could come take a look and see what he thinks. SO nice! So I started to take her back in the house. As I was doing so, I look down the street and here comes a full on fire truck! Out jumps 4 firemen! I was so embarrassed! Remember we JUST moved in! Although the neighbor kids LOVED it!! :) We went inside and they took a look at her hands. They were so helpful and even looked on line for me to find directions and called to get info! Chris came home to a firetruck outside and a bunch of firemen inside the house!
Ahhh!
We were so glad that friends and family could jump in and take the girls while we took Daphne to the ER. We took her in and she was SO good and SO sweet! The ER they recommended has a Burn Unit so after we talked to the Dr. we went down there, which was so nice. They gave her medicine and told us to come back the next day. Her skin was still too thick to do anything.
The next morning this is how the one hand (which is the worst) looked. It was really swollen and a total blister. It covered a large portion of the palm. It made me cringe because she is crawling all over with her hands! She isn't walking yet, so her hands are like her feet! She seemed totally fine about it too. Although she was medicated! But it still gave me the willies!
So we went back to the Burn Unit, thinking they would just check it out and okay us to be on our way. BOY WAS I WRONG! This was when they had to open them, drain them, and clean them! I was all by myself with the 3 kids too! It was NOT fun! Don't look at the next picture if you have a weak stomach. Here is the same hand once it was cleaned.
Ugh, it still makes me cringe! My poor baby girl! All the nurses and Doctors could not believe she did that on the front door. They thought the info was filled out wrong and that it was the OVEN door! CRAZY!!! She got all bandaged up and looked so cute! She was so happy and ready to go with her little boxing gloves on!
We were "lucky" and got to come back every day for them to change her bandages and clean her wounds. It was a nightmare and always took at least an hour just to get back to the room, even with an appointment!
It was amazing to see it everyday and how quickly it healed! You could see the white shiny new skin growing over the red sores. So crazy! I had to get "clearance" to do the bandage changing myself as we already had a trip to
Ventura planned. Grandma was my helper every day to get Daphne all taken care of. Thanks Grandma
Stewie. It wasn't fun but we did it! Luckily within a week she was all better and didn't even need bandages on them anymore! She is such a trooper! She was so cute in her little boxing gloves with her little thumb poking out! She got quite talented feeding herself and everything! I love this baby girl!
Love this picture (taken a few days before she got hurt) one of the girls must have taken it on my phone without me knowing. I love these cuddle times with my girl! She is so cute and so sweet! I am just so glad she is all better
This "little" girl is such a cutie! She is all smiles and full of personality! She has been sleeping so much lately which means she is only going to get bigger! I love that she has a voice and knows how to use it! She knows she needs to be loud to be heard in this family! Girls are so loud! :)
