What happens when you play with woodchips?

You get a HUGE splinter in your hand! One of Maya’s favorite things to do when we go to the park is play in the woodchips. The day before we left for Disney World Rich took the kids to the park and came home with Maya screaming. After I saw her little hand I completely understood why she was crying so hard. The splinter had gone all the way in her hand. There was no way to pull it out. We called a friend that is in PA school and he had a go at it. It was too deep to get out without cutting into her hand so we decided we would give it some time to maybe come out on it’s own.

The next day we went to Disney World for a couple of days and kept a close eye on her hand. On our drive home we decided that it looked like it might be getting infected so when we got home at 8:30pm, Rich took her to the ER. They took x-rays and then gave her a shot of ketamine to sedate her. Rich said it was pretty freaky because it took about 15 seconds after they gave her the shot for her to basically become comatose. 15 seconds!! Even the nurse was a little nervous because he had never seen such a quick reaction to the ketamine. Don’t think we will ever be using that again.

So, the doctor came in and cut into her little hand and still couldn’t get the splinter out. He cut a bit deeper and was finally able to remove the giant piece of wood. I didn’t see it but Rich was surprised at how big it actually was. We had no idea it was that big. If we had known we obviously would have taken her in right away. When they finally got home close to midnight, Maya was so loopy. Here are some pics of my girl:

I didn’t get to bed until 1am that night:( I had to get up at 6am to go to the hospital with Arabella. So happy last week is over.