This morning Rowan was playing with some winter gloves, and I asked her to take them off, and she told me that she was using it to make her hand feel better because it hurt. The room was dark, and at first glance I thought she had wiped her nose and had a booger on it. Then I realized that her thumb (she calls it flumb) was all swollen and looked very infected. It appears to have swollen up over night because it didn't look that way yesterday! I called the Dr. right away, and they got her in. They drained it, took a culture and bandaged it up, and she will be on antibiotics for the next 10 days. All I can think that happened was it got infected after I trimmed up a hangnail. Will be a lot more careful about trimming and washing the clippers and area after...poor girl :(
She only started crying and freaking out after she showed it to me, and insisted we go to the Dr. right away.
Liam told her that he thought it might be a 'white boo boo mystery', and she made sure to tell the Dr. that. She was so brave at the Dr.
Proud of her pink bandage!
