ER Visit....for the mom!

Ok, so the pictures kinda tell the story. Sunday night I was putting Caleb to bed. He has a lamp on his little table, I reached to turn it off, and when I did sparks flew, maybe even a flame...the lights in the house flickered, they dimmed and there was this loud noise. So I'm screaming, Caleb is screaming, Jeremy comes running down the hallway into the room and I just pass Caleb off to him and run into the bathroom and put water on my right hand (yes I'm right handed). Hannah is just kinda like what's going on?? Jeremy brought me some ice in a ziplock bag. The inside palm of my hand was black from suit I guess, and it smelled bad. I'm not crying, I'm just like what happened, what do I do...I'm thinking I'm a nurse and I don't know what to do. I gotta go to the ER. So Jeremy stays and gets the kids to bed.

So I go to our Kenedy hospital. I get there at about 8:45pm, they actually called me back pretty quickly (there was a room of about 10 people or so)..I'm thinking they need to call me back RIGHT NOW. My hand HURTS! I also just started working at the hospital in surgery, so I'm thinking, maybe I'll get some special treatment here. The doctor was so nice....he said "Oh..thats bad, somebody bring me some yellow mustard". The nurse says "Like from the refrigerator", doc says "Yeah from the fridge". So they go to the OR and get the mustard out of our very own fridge. I'm thinking is this sterile, is it clean enough...but whatever. He then squirts mustard into a sterile glove atleast , then I squish my hand into the glove. I put my hand in a bucket of ice water for 1hr. He said that mustard is the best thing to put on burns because it is a good pain reliever, and it can reduce a burn by a degree if treated soon enough.

So after an hour he reassessed, and said that I had some 2nd degree spots with some 1st degree burns as well. He put silvadene cream, and gauze over my fingers. The pain wasn't so bad when it was in the glove and ice, but oh..when the mustard and ice wore off....it was just a CONSTANT burning/stinging. I only took 1 pain pill that night, to help me sleep, and the next day it was MUCH better. I went to work with my hand all bandaged....I thought...I'm sure a lot of help but I still got to assist and do some things.

So all this to say, I think I'm gonna be fine. It was just really scary, I'm glad it wasn't my kids. I took the lamp back to Wal-Mart where I got it...I said...it's obviously missing a piece that covers all the metal parts and the base of the light bulb (thats what caused this whole mess). I said they need to check all their lamps to make sure it doesn't happen to anyone else. I got a new lamp just the same for free, all the pieces are intact...but I'm gonna let Jeremy set it up to make sure : )

So today is Wednesday...I've taken the dressing off the middle finger and it's just has a bunch of blisters...no broken skin right now. My ring finger was the more serious one...still have a dressing to make sure it stays really clean. I'm also taking my prenatal vitamins and extra vitamin C...to promote healing. So hopefully things will be fine.