Baaaaadddd Mommy Nurse!!!

Today was the first day of my LAST semester of Nursing School. I will be graduating in 4 months 4 days and 18 hours from now. I am excited and exhausted! I started my job in the ICU/CCU about 1.5 months ago and I LOVE every minute of it.

I got out of class and there was a missed call on my cell phone from Tayler. He was hurt and wanted me to call him. So I called the school and he said that while playing basketball he hurt his finger. So I asked him a few questions including what hand. Since it was his right hand I told him he would stay at school because it was not his writing hand. He did tell me his finger was black and blue but in my stupidity I did not think much of it. He had drama practice at 5:30 tonight so I let him go to After School care so he could hang out with his friends for a bit. Around 5:00 I brought him dinner and actually visually assessed the finger. GOOD GOD! It was huge and so discolored. Yeah, not just a sprain I was sure. So instead of Drama practice I took him to urgent care. They ordered X-rays to confirm the initial diagnosis of a break and we will get the results on Monday. Then splinted his finger and sent him home. IF the break is in the joint or growth plate he will have to see an orthopedic doctor and if not he will just wear his splint for 3-4 weeks. I took a picture of his hand 10 hours post injury so it is not near as bad looking at it was 6 hours earlier but I thought I would share his first broken bone (HA HA!!!)