Early morning scare

A lot can happen in just a few minutes, and unfortunately for little Timothy, that was the case yesterday, after I dropped him off in before hours scare before I went to work.

I literally only made a few steps in the office when someone from child care called saying our son was involved in a little accident where he got his finger stuck on the other end of a door and apparently got his nail on his middle finger torn off.

Anyone who has gone on this ordeal would most certainly be in pain, but when they got Tim on the phone and I asked him how he was, he said he was ok. Just like his mom, he was already in distress but did not want us to worry for him.

I called Kitchie and pretty much picked her up from home and went to get Timothy.

He wasn’t crying a much, and Diana from child care took pretty good care of him as they were waiting.

As the nearest clinic has yet to open at such an early hour, we decided to bring him straight to the hospital, where we were attended to straight away, being the early birds and all.

Not only was he hurting, but other than having some jam on toast and orange juice, he had to go through being hungry throughout the ordeal. This was because there was a 6-hour window where he should not have eaten anything prior to the surgery.

There was a lot of worrying and waiting, but to cut the story short, from being hurt and treated to undergoing a minor surgery to repair the tissue under his finger as well as his badly damaged nail, Timothy was able to go through it as if nothing really happened. He ate through his dinner and dessert, and Kitchie even brought him a fruit cup and a jelly cup just to soothe his hungry tummy.

He was pretty upset though when he saw his finger for the first time after the procedure. The doctors used his ring finger to support his middle finger and they bandaged them both together. He started crying and I realized he thought he lost his hurt finger.

I told him that everything was fine, and through one of the gaps in his bandages showed him that both his fingers were just hiding underneath it all.

He did seem to act more normally after that, and is slowly recovering from it all.

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