Family Forum / Parenting / Parenting / February 2008

When we were coming home today I was trying to get DD9 out of the car to
help me carry stuff.  It was windy and snowy and she was grumbling.  DH
came around the car to help.  We hear DD cry out and start sobbing.  I
can't see her so I'm trying to get hubby to see what happened.  He asked
her if she cut her finger.  He is still wanting to help me but I shoo
him around to check on her.  I could tell know by her crying that she
was hurt but not seriously.  Finally she tells us that she shut the door
on her fingers.

We get everyone in the house and she tells us that she is bleeding.  I
take her into the kitchen to check everything out.  She had shut the
index and middle finger of her right hand in the door at the second
knuckle.   She has a cut on both sides of her middle finger at the joint
 but she can bend it fairly easily.  Her index finger isn't cut but she
says it hurts.  The bleeding was easily stopped.  She is sitting with a
towel and ice pack at the moment.  School will be fun for awhile as she
is right handed.  Poor thing.