Day 8

Well Lily's hand is doing better. I removed more of the dead skin from the blister today. It's still pretty red and looks really delicate, so I am keeping it wrapped up for now. Trying to give it some air so it will heal better and toughen up quicker.

When changing the bandages today, she was really protective of it after I left it unwrapped for a while. I am glad to see her do that, 'cause soon I am going to have to stop wrapping it up. I am just going to have to keep an eye on Zoe to be sure she is nice to her sister!

I am hesitant to keep it unwrapped, but I think I am gonna have to do it soon. Here is a couple pix of her hand now. Slowly but surely it's healing.

When Will They Learn

Well Lily sure hasn't let her hand slow her down! I am gonna need to keep my eye on this one for sure. She just started doing this a few days ago. I have since moved the table away from the couch and the chair away from the table so she can't get onto the table....at least when I am not looking!



Her hand is doing good. Still a bit of healing to go. We have removed some of the dead skin off her palm (ewww) so that her hand can heal better. Oh by the way, GO DUCKS!!!

What a nightmare

Well it happened, I was afraid it would. Lily got through the barricade a couple nights ago and touched the wood stove. My poor girl! I wasn't sure how bad she had touched it when I was holding her hand in cold water until a few minutes later. I felt horrible and helpless, she was crying and screaming. We had to take her to Urgent Care because it was blistering pretty bad on her palm and fingers.

I was so mad at the staff at Urgent Care. After we did the triage and checking in, we had to wait for almost 1/2 hour while she screamed the waiting room. I should have been more assertive and asked for them to give her something for the pain, not a mistake that I will make again! Finally into a curtain room....to wait some more. The Dr. comes in and looks at it. By this time she had fallen asleep. Now the poor thing is awake and crying again while we wait again for the nurse to get her some pain medicine. So an hour after arrival, I got her medicated and her hand wrapped up.

The Dr. said he doesn't think it will scar and there shouldn't be any problems with her hand functions. Already I have cut back on her medicine dosage, it has codeine so I don't want her to have to take it for too long. ( By the way, mixing it with chocolate syrup makes it go down easier!) I take her for a check up on Thursday.

Well if you are faint at heart, you might want to skip the first pic. The blister on her palm got bigger over night, but the ones on her fingers and thumb seemed to have gone down.

If you use a wood stove, make sure the little ones can't get to it, even if you have a barrier, like we do.

This is day 2: 10-17-07

Sleeping away

She doesn't let her bandages get the way of doing things. Little trooper.

Pumpkin Patch Fun

Ah, it's that time of year again! The smell of fireplaces in the air, the warm apple cider and warm apple cider doughnuts, the overly priced tickets for the hay ride to the pumpkin patch and of course...the pumpkins. Even though I grew some smaller varieties this year, we still had to go out and find that large pumpkin. Ya know I still have the one from last year that I never got around to carving! Amazing really, and it's only now starting get mushy around the top.

Well here we are at Thistle Down with friends. It's a kind of tradition to go, but getting to be over priced. We had fun though. Zoe wandered all over looking at all the pumpkins. Lily was more interested in the mud and digging her fingers in it.

Here are the horses, so beautiful, Spike and Major.

On the way out to the patch

Zoe scouting for the perfect one

Only time she held one

Yes, this pose is totally staged, but cute.

Spotted this lil' guy just hanging out

Like Mother like Daughter

So the other day, Zoe kicked me, Lily and grandma out of Lily's room. She had her Build a Bear puppy dog and said she needed privacy so she could nurse her puppy in the rocking chair! Oh my! I am glad to know through a friend that she is not the only one. Tee hee