My almost 7 year old daughter manager to jam her finger in her bedroom door (whilst I was washing the dog). Upon hearing hysterical screaming, I turned off the shower, locked the dog in the laundry shower room and went to find L. (took all of 10 seconds).
She'd jammed her finger, and it was bleeding AND the fingernail was already black. I am a fully qualified first aider so I gave her appropriate first aid and some ibuprofen. She's not the first or last person to have had a jammed finger.
BUT it's so swollen and sore. And I know I am an over protective mother.
BUT I'm thinking it might be worth getting xrayed? (Hard to find a clinic with an xray tech on site on late Sunday afternoon and I'm certainly not going to go to emergency at the hospital for a suspected fractured finger - it's not an emergency). I would usually give it until morning (because I know I overreact) but L is going away interstate with my parents for a week tomorrow, so it's not the best day to get an xray.
😞 So I guess, chances it's fractured would be pretty low? Leaving an xray until tomorrow morning wont kill her as they wouldn't do anything different to what I have done with the finger, but I feel bad. I want to help her.
And I've still got to finish washing the stinking dog, who is at this point, locked outside all wet but not shampooed or rinsed (It is warm or he'd be inside).
