The Scissor Incident of 2009

Last Friday Brady had an unfortunate accident at preschool.  I guess the word "accident" may be a little misleading.  The other little boy surely didn't plan on cutting Brady's finger, but having a "scissor fight while the teacher wasn't looking" makes me feel a little less sad for the injured.  Brady was not an innocent party in the cutting fight, but he was definitely lost the battle and came out of it with quite a battle wound.  He had a huge cut on the pad of his right middle finger. 

After Brad was pulled from class to help Brady down in the nurse's station (one huge perk to having Brady in the same building), they finally got the bleeding to stop.  We thought that was definitely good news in not needing stitches.  The doctor determined that he would need some stitches on top of the dermabond (glue to hold the wound together).  In fact, Brady needed 4 stitches!  four stitches doesn't seem like alot unless you look closely at how small a four year old's finger tip acutally is. 

The following pictures may be difficult for some viewers, so here is your warning about the graphic content.

Waiting for the doctor to check out the "boo boo".

The finger wound.

Mommy giving Brady a little TLC.

All stitched up!

Trying to recreate a similar picture of the one we have of Aunt Susie when she chopped of the tip of her middle finger when she was two.  I think that we determined that she needed 8 stitches...yikes!  Now, she and Brady will have matching scars.