Anna's 1st ER trip

Last week we went down to St. George. Shaun had to do some work down there and since his parent's have a condo down there, Anna and I tagged along. It was nice to get away for a little bit. Anna was excited we were going on vacation because that usually means we get to go swimming. We were planning on it too. We got into St. George late Tuesday night, Shaun worked all day Wednesday while Anna and I hung out at the condo. That night we went to Pizza Factory for dinner.

On Thursday Shaun had some work to do in Cedar City which left us at home without a car. I decided that it would be a fun adventure to take the bus over to the outlet mall. Anna loves to see the buses while driving so it would be even more fun for her to ride on one. Plus, I'm 29 and never had taken a UTA bus. The bus stop is just in front of the condo so it seemed easy enough...it was. We rode for 45 mins (lot's of stops). Just when we got off the bus by the mall I was putting up the stroller and Anna's stuck her hand out and something from the stroller got it. Blood EVERYWHERE!! I thought I had cut off her finger, thankfully I didn't. After several four letter words and blood soaked wet wipes I was able to see that she had cut her pinkie finger pretty bad. It was wide open and the fatty pad of her finger was coming out. I had no idea what to do, Shaun was 45 mins away in Cedar City, I had no car, my child was screaming. So instead of walking up to the mall we walked a mile in the opposite direction to the hospital. We went into insta-care first (which was in the parking lot of the hospital) and they were nice enough to look at it for me but they sent me to the ER. They took her blood pressure, which Anna thought was funny and had a good laugh. We went back into a room and had 3 x-rays taken, which she did good with. When it was just the 2 of us in the room, she would ask "Where's my nurse?" When the nurse would come in she would tell them that she had her blood pressure taken. Nothing was fractured, but she needed 2 stitches. When they numbed her finger she wanted to cry because she knew they were doing something with her hurt finger, but then she would laugh because she couldn't feel it anymore.

She thought it was pretty cool that they gave her a bracelet with her name on it. Every time someone came in the room she would show them and tell them that it said Anna Jane Moyes.

She did great, she got lot's of stickers, coloring books, crayons and Dora band aids. Now if you get close to her finger she says "be careful with my finger."

Now we get to go back down so we can take her swimming!!

It's been 7 days and Whitney and Grandma took the stitches out today. I was lucky enough not to have to be there, but they saved them so she could show me. She handed them to me and said to put them in her book. No one told her to say that, she came up with it on her own. But how horrible am I, I don't have a book for her. That might be my next project.

**Those 4 pictures are all I took of St. George, my camera doesn't take good pictures anymore so I borrowed my mom's, I lost it so now I only have my phone. Unfortunately I will be buying 2 camera's sometime soon.**