a Trip to University Hospital

On November 28th Tavan burned his hand on the stove top. Ricky and I had just finished browning hamburger for dinner and turned the oven off while Tavan pushed his chair over to get up and get a banana off the counter. He leaned down right on the burner and screamed. As soon as a turned and saw poor mans little hand I knew there was not going to be eating any dinner right away. We rushed Tavan up to the emergency room and they were able to dress it for us. Tavan was not a fan of anyone touching his hand and screamed the whole time but he was a trooper when the doctor came in and she talked to him enough that he let her look at it after she promised she wouldn't touch it. From the ER we were instructed to follow up in two days and to try to stay on top of the pain. This is Tavan's hand the next morning during a dressing change.

We followed up with Tavan's pediatrician( Dr. Kwak...he is awesome. I feel like he is in our blog quite a bit lately). Dr. Kwak took one look at Tavan's hand and sent us to University hospital's Burn clinic. The very next day we were seen and this is what his hand looked like there before they trimmed it. The whole thing was one giant blister and was super nasty looking.

We had to go back the next week where they really trimmed and "cleaned" his hand up. They were really impressed with how well his hand had healed and that they were only worried about one area of his burn but that at the moment no skin grafts were needed (mom and dad made a huge sigh of relief) After they attacked

All dressed up!

This picture was a week and a half after burning his hand

and one month later!

Today we still are not completely out of the water with his hand. There is one spot on his hand where the burn went deeper than anywhere else and is scarring. They are watching the scar to see if it "bubbles up" any more and if it does then he will need to be fitted with a special brace that he will have to wear for quite awhile but as of now, there has been no change. I am so glad that he is ok and that things are looking up for him. He is such a tough little guy still asks if he can go back to the "flower" doctor sometime.(during Christmas they had poinsettias everywhere so thats what he associated the doctor with)