Eli's Finger AGAIN!

As many of you know I have spent my fair share of time in the urgent care and orthopedic office at out local clinic. This time it was Eli's turn.

The kids were playing outside when I heard a scream. Eli had dropped a rock or something on his finger. He came in with blood everywhere. There was a bloody hand print on my bedroom door that looked like a serious crime scene. I grabbed him, a kitchen towel, an ice pack and our new insurance cards (that had just come in the mail) and ran to the car. We went straight to the urgent care. They took us right in because the bleeding was so bad they wanted to check his oxygen level. The urgent care doctor said that she could stitch it up but it will be deformed (not the words she used, but the meaning) and may not have feeling. Then she decided to go have a second opinion. That doctor said they should go get a hand surgeon to look at it. When they got downstairs to look for a hand surgeon to come see it they found Dr. Hay and his assistant packing up to go home for the day. They graciously agreed to come up and look at it. They decided they needed to do the surgery themselves. So down to their out patient operating room we went. Eli was numbed from the middle of the hand to the tips of his finger. Once that was done, he sang songs and watched the whole surgery as if it was on someone else. (He has the Mosely medical blood in him!). As he is laying there and the doctor is at work he asked to sing Christmas songs. The doctor said "how about frosty the snow man?" Eli looks at him and said "no. that's not Christmas". Then the doctor said "how about Rudolf the red nosed reindeer". Again Eli says "No, that's not Christmas. Christmas is Jesus." Then he sang Angels We Have Heard On High. It was so funny. When the surgery was done and we got home I realized we had actually had all that happen in just a little over 2 hours.

This was a horrible accident. His finger was actually severed almost completely off his hand. But through it all I can't help but see so many "Praise God" moments. Let me list them...

1. He never lost too much blood. They checked his oxygen several times and he always was at 100%.

2. He missed the bone completely. There was no need for pinning of the finger.

3. Dr. Hay was on his way out. Had we been just 5 minutes later my son would have a deformed finger.

4. Eli, a 3 year old, was able to present the gospel to his doctor and the assistant while he was having surgery.

5. The whole things was done and over in such a short time. We were able to come home and have dinner and it didn't burn while we were gone!

6. I had amazing peace through the whole thing. Usually I have condemnation and fear but this time I knew God had a bigger plan and I just needed to go with it. Who knows, maybe Dr. Hay and his assistant really listened and a seed was planted?!

I'm sure there was more the Lord did. But I can't think of them at the moment!