Poor Leah!

On Monday, I got a call from daycare. It was the director, asking me if Leah had hurt her finger over the weekend. She said that Leah's finger was purplish and swollen. I told her that Leah had not hurt it over the weekend and to watch Leah to see if she got worse. About an hour later, daycare called back to say that Leah was being fussy and was not bending the finger, and was whining whenever she put weight on that hand. Tim and I rushed over to take a look at it. It was indeed quite swollen and purple both on the nail and the underside of her right hand pinkie. We called the doctor and got an appointment.

The nail - a bit purple

We headed over to Leah's pediatrician's office. The doctor looked at her finger. The first thing she said was "Oh wow, that is swollen." We said, "Well, compare it to her other hand... Leah has fat fingers." The doctor looked at the two hands compared to each other and said "Oh yea, not so swollen - just pudgy baby fingers!" After a bit more examination, the doctor said that it could just be a pinch, or it could be broken. She sent us to a radiologist office to get an x-ray taken. We headed over to that office and waited for a bit. One funny thing there was that the radiologists office had way more toys to play with than the pediatrician's office.

The other side of her finger - purplish

When they called Leah's name, they said that only one parent could go in with her and they preferred it to be Dad. I was a bit miffed but let Tim take her in. It turned out that they prefer the father to go in on the chance that the mother could be pregnant. They also find that the fathers are more easily able to hold the kid down while they get the x-ray! Either way, Leah was very easy and sat like a good girl while they x-rayed her hand. Here is her x-ray (along with Tim's finger!):
They called us in to talk to the pediatrician on the phone. She said that Leah had indeed broken her finger - the top bone of her pinkie finger. They said for babies Leah's age, they don't bother to splint it because it really wouldn't do any good. The baby would pull it off, and it really isn't needed anyway. We are just supposed to watch her and make sure that she is feeling okay and not in pain.

Do I look like I am unhappy or in pain?