Makayla update

How could I forget. We went back to the Burn Center last Tuesday and they removed the bandages. Her hand was looking pretty good. They gave us ointment to put on them and said to only use band-aids so she could move her fingers freely. Well we had been bandaging all but her pinkie, then Friday it was all but her thumb. Last night it was only as she calls them her pointer finger and tall man finger. Tall man looks the worse of them all. But it is so amazing to see how much better they look just from Tuesday. She's straightening them out and bending them also.
She told me Tuesday night, I feel like such a dummy. I told her if she had noticed most people at the burn center Tuesday were adults, and they were all old enough to know better. So by no way should she feel dumb. Thank you to all of y'all that have prayed for her.
Also in case y'all haven't read my oldest daughter's blog about Emily my granddaughter. http://meganbhulsey.wordpress.com/ She has a cyst on her neck and will have to have surgery when she turns a year old. So please pray that when they go to the specialist next Tuesday surgery won't be needed.

Update: Makayla

We made it back from the burn center terribly tired. They put her to sleep so they could clean it and scrub the dead skin off of her fingers. Said she should heal just fine. I realized today just how much worse it could have been when hearing of others while in the waiting room. They've got it in a glove and wrapped in gauze and will stay that way until we return on the 12Th. She's taking it all quiet well. I think the Tylenol and codeine has something to do with that. Feeling a little loopy. She's to stay on it for at least 24 hours because of the soreness. Will keep y'all updated as much as possible.

2nd degree burn

Have you ever had a child crying in pain and couldn't do something about it fast enough? That's the feeling I had last night when we took Makayla to the emergency room. She decided she needed a snack last night and put a pan with cheese sticks in it in the oven. I let her check to see if they were ready and heard her say I've got a towel and going to take them out. I told her I'm on my way. Before I could get to the kitchen she had grabbed the pan with the towel in her right hand. Then for some reason she went to change it to her left hand that didn't have a towel in it. About the time I got to the kitchen she screamed and the pan hit the floor.
I grabbed her and stuck her hand under cold water, kissing and holding her. Feeling so helpless, wishing I could take her pain away. I called her pediatrician and the nurse told me to take her to the emergency room to be checked out.
I never realized emergency room personnel could move so fast. As soon as I carried her in and told the receptionist that her hand was burned and that her pediatricians nurse said for us to come to the emergency room, she called the back. We were immediately taken back to the triage nurse, and poor thing typed what she had to into the computer and went to find a room. All the examination rooms were apparently full so we got put in this small office.
The Doctor came in and looked at it and told the nurse what to give her for the pain and put ointment on it and wrap it.
Then he went and called the burn center.
So we have to be at the Burn Center in Augusta in the morning in which is about an hour away from us. That will give it time to see if it's gotten better or worse.
Not sure what they gave her for pain, but she slept soundly all night.
They gave us Tylenol with codeine, gauze, ointment, and tape enough to make it though until tomorrow. So no trips to the pharmacy today.
I've never been in and out of an emergency room so fast in my life. So I guess there is some good incidents even in a bad situation.