Archie's First Trip to the ER

A week ago Friday my mom and sister, Kimmy came into town. We had a fun day planned of going to sushi and shopping. We were waiting for our check at the sushi restaurant and they were taking FOREVER, so I let Archie out of his high chair. He immediately climbed onto a regular chair and it tipped over. My mom screamed, "Grab him!" really loud, tipped her chair over, and tipped over two water glasses. I was so embarrassed because we were in the middle of the restaurant and everyone was staring. Plus, Archie hurts himself all the time and I really didn't think he was hurt. I picked up Archie and I noticed some blood on his mouth, I thought no big deal since he gets a bloody lip every other day. Then I notice there is blood spurting from somewhere and he is crying a lot more than usual. I looked down and his middle finger on his right hand has been almost completely severed (it turns out the blood on his lip was from him putting his finger in his mouth)! I freaked out (to say the least), grabbed a napkin, and ran out of there. We drove down the street to Urgent Care and they told us we had to go to the Children's Hospital. We drove as fast as we could, thinking this was a major emergency. We get to the hospital and they put a band-aid on him and tell us to wait. They said the longest person had been waiting 2 1/2 hours. 2 1/2 hours! My son's finger is hanging there! The nurse who put the band-aid on him told me he might lose his finger, but not to worry because he has 9 more. I was very near tears at that point. I called Max (who was working) and he was freaking out, too. They told me not to feed him, since they didn't know if they were going to have to sedate him. Well, it turns out it took them 5 hours to finally stitch him and 2 more hours to wait for the tetanis shot. That whole time he was asking for milk. I could not sit down the entire time because he would ask for milk. I had to hold him, and let me tell you, by the end of the night I was shaking from holding him for so long. Max ended up getting there right before they started stitching. Archie ended up getting seven stitches and the tip of his finger had a bone chip fracture. We opted to strap him to the papoose board, rather than have him sedated. He screamed the entire time, but we thought it was better than having to recover from sedation. It is healing up pretty nicely, so he should be as good as new in a couple of weeks. This experience, I am sorry to say, has not slowed him down a bit. He still climbs on the furniture and wrestles with Mason.

See the bandage on his hand? Doesn't slow him down at all!