Well, there was a little excitement today in the Groppel household! I was on the phone, finishing a call and Shen walks up to me and very calmly holds his hand up with one of his wooden rails (from his train set) attached to his forefinger. And, I mean attached! As you can see in the first picture, he had somehow forced his finger through the hole in the rail and couldn't get it out. So, being the calm daddy that I am, Shen and I walked upstairs and pulled the vaseline out of a drawer in our bathroom. Mommy, hearing that we had come upstairs, came over to see what her boys were up to and saw the predicament. Well, vaseline didn't work. Connor came in the door and thought we should try soapy water. Great idea, but it didn't work either. So, Shen and I headed downstairs, got the car keys and headed for the emergency room.
However, our neighbor (the newest angel in Shen's life) Andy Ward, is a physician (he heads up the Anasthesia department at Sherman Hospital) and he was in his driveway. I pulled in his driveway and in our neighborly way of doing things, exclaimed that "We are headed for our first emergency room trip!" Andy came over to investigate and knew he could take care of it. So, it was back to our house!
Andy first tried thread to get the finger down a bit, then he tried ribbon (which is the second picture). Finally, he said, "We probably need to cut it off." Andy went over to his house and came back with some big wood cutters. Shen remained calm while Andy did surgery on the wood (the third Picture). The wood fell away from Shen's finger and all was well again!!
Thank you Andy for being a special person in Shen's early life with us!!
We hope you enjoy the pictures!
Love,
Jack, Jodie, Connor and Shen
2 comments:
Jodie and Jack, I am soooo glad you are getting all these priceless pictures! How adorable and what a brave little man you have. I love keeping up to date with your family and hopefully will see you soon at church. Blessings to you all! Tammy Chapman
I'm glad some of his immunizations were valid. Our Shenzhen girl's titers were all negative and we had to redo all of her shots (something my peditrician recommended even if the titers were valid).
It's a hard thing for our little ones to suffer though. Especially since they really don't understand why it's necessary.
I hope Shen got a really cool bandaid afterwards! (I always bring a little supply of Elmo ones just for this purpose). Makes that shot hurt just a little less!
:)
Donna
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