Not how i wanted the day to go

Today has been very rough. It started out as any normal day but in an instant it changed. My dad had placed his to go cup (with scalding hot coffee in it) on the end table while he went out to his truck, he does this every morning before he leaves for work. I was in the kitchen making lunch and Kendall walked down the hall and for some reason had serious interest in the cup. Next thing i know i hear a thud and then screaming. Not your normal whining cry this was I am REALLY hurt screaming, so i ran down the hall and got to her the same time my mom did. I saw what it was right away and grabbed her and we took her to the bathroom and stuck her in the bathtub with cold water right away to stop the burning. She was screaming the whole time. We tried to calm her down but she was really hurt we decided to take her to the ER because she was starting to blister.

When my dad makes his 2nd cup of coffee he always microwaves it so it stays really hot in his cup while he travels to work. This was fresh out of the microwave after being freshly brewed so it was super hot.

My mom followed me to the hospital and stayed with me while we were there. I let Jason know and he was going to meet us but he does not handle these situations very well. We got in right away, no one can handle listening to a baby in pain.

 She was really hysterical and we couldn't get her to calm down so they gave her a dose of hydrocodein and within 20 minutes she was calm and relaxing. Before they cleaned and treated the area they wanted her to be calm and give the medicine a chance to work so she wasn't in any pain while they did it.

 In this picture you can see all of the burned area pretty well. You can even see some of the blisters. She was fully dressed so it could have been worse if she didn't have anything on. It also would have been a lot worse if it was a regular cup and all of it poured on her. With the to go cup it only had a little slot to pour out of so she didn't get it TOO bad.

To clean it they have to put some solution on the area and scrub it, so it was a little painful for her. It took me, my mom and one other nurse to hold her down while another nurse cleaned the area. We have a burn cream we are to put on the worst areas and then cover it with gauze and wrap it up so it stays in place. The pink you see is the wrap, it goes all the way around her chest and under her right arm. Because this cream is pretty strong we cant put it on her face or it will possibly change the pigment of her skin and leave spots of her skin a different color. On her face we are only putting bacitracin ointment so keep things from getting into it.

We do have to go back to the "wound unit" tomorrow to get it cleaned and treated again and they will show us what to do and after that we should be able to do it ourselves at home. They will have to scrub it again which will be painful so they gave us more medicine to give her before we have to go so she wont be in any pain while they do it.

Obviously we stayed home from daycare today and she will stay with the babysitter tomorrow afternoon after the doctor so i can work a few hours, but she will possibly be going Friday depending on how she is feeling.

This has definitely been a very traumatic experience for all of us and none of us will ever be leaving our coffee in her reach again. I am feeling some anxiety still, i think they needed to me some of the calming medicine they gave her.