The First of Many, I Suppose...

Well, we it has happened. Jack has suffered his first "major" injury and we all came through it relatively unscathed. Now to most you faithful blog readers, it may not seem that traumatic but believe me, it was not fun. So here is what happened: Over Memorial Day weekend, Jack and Mommy were playing in the bathroom while Daddy showered and Jack-Jack got his thumb and 2 fingers stuck in the very heavy glass shower door. It was obviously fairly quickly that he had really bruised his thumb nail because it was purple and white. He cried for a while and then went on with his day without a problem. The next day his thumb seemed to be bothering him slightly so we gave him some Motrin and forgot about it. The next day, however, he was in a lot of pain and crying almost uncontrollably whenever he touched or grabbed something. Then his nail started bleeding and we knew a trip to the doctor was in our future. The doctor checked him out and said that it wasn't broken but that he was definitely going to lose his thumb nail! Poor guy. After five days of constantly cleaning it and Jack favoring his entire right hand as if his wrist were broken the entire thumb nail just lifted off the nail bed and Mommy had to trim it down so now he has no nail :( As a side note, Daddy can't handle anything having to do with nails. He has NEVER clipped Jack's nails because it makes him queasy so the idea of Jack completely losing a nail was enough to almost make Daddy lose his lunch as Mommy told him about it over the phone.

Jack is totally fine now and doesn't seem to be in any pain.

One good thing that came out of this is that we were finally able to get Jack to keep a band-aid on longer than 5 seconds. We gave him an extra band-aid to play with as a distraction. This is what he did with it...