Never did I think an accident like this could occur in my very own home with my very own vacuum cleaner to my very own child. Unfortunately, to my dismay it did happened and it happened to Jacob. My sweet little curious boy put his hand underneath the vacuum cleaner while it was on. I was using the attachment tools to vacuum out a windowsill and my back was turned. Both boys had crawled up behind me to see what I was doing and that's when it happened. The cry was immediate and my panic was immense, as I tried to survey the damage to such a little hand.
The side of Jacob's right hand looked badly scraped. The gash wasn't large in size, however it was very obvious that it was deep - later we found out it down to the dermis. After some careful bandage wrapping, and several calls to family, we decided to wait till morning to go see his pediatrician since it was Sunday. At the doctor's office we learned that since the wound crosses onto his little finger and over a joint, our pediatrician had to refer us to a pediatric hand specialist at Dell Children's. The fear is that once scar tissue begins to form and that it will block the mobility of his little finger. Our hand specialist doctor had a little hand splint made for Jacob to wear at night, which he doesn't like, but we are happy to try whatever we can. Now we just have to wait to see how it all heals and go from there.
