Genevieve vs. Fire

Last weekend our family (cory's side) went camping at a nearby lake.  Cory's youngest brother flew in from CA with his sweet girlfriend Jenny.  We were looking forward to a fun weekend of games, swimming, and spending time around the campfire.  What we didn't expect was to have a near tragedy in the fire pit.  On Saturday morning we started a campfire because it was extremely cold.  As we finished eating breakfast Genevieve decided to walk backwards near our firepit. Unfortunately no one saw her until she was in the open flame fire.  Cory was only a few steps away and grabbed her pretty quickly.  She was wearing a lot of clothes because it was cold, which probably saved her body from getting badly burnt.  Cory was already ripping off her clothes by the time I was able to get to her.   Both Genna and I were sobbing at this point.  Cory and I are frantically searching her body for burns.  After a full search, the only part that was burnt was her right hand.  She had set her hand on the fire after she fell to lift herself up.  Shortly after she fell it began to blister.  Our main concern was to console her and to decide what to do. 

After things calmed down, we put some Aloe on the burn, cleaned it and bandaged it, and she seemed to be doing fine.  She favored the hand a bit, but we felt confident we could wait til we got back into town to see a Doctor.  My sister in law is a medical assistant and we talked to some friends from AZ that we knew who are currently residents. 

On Monday we took her into the Dr. and they had to pop the blisters and cut away the dead skin.  Genevieve was a champ and hardly flinched from all the pokes she was given.   She is truly my hero because I have such a low pain tollerance.  I have a few pictures of her hand for those who are interested but for the squirmish I would not suggest you look at them.  I will start with the bandaged hand photo and her sweater first so you still have time to turn away.

 Here is the sweater she was wearing, this is after I washed it..imagine it all dirty and black.

 It was rediculously hard to get her to stop moving so I could snap a photo of her bandaged hand

 

 WARNING: GRAPHIC PHOTOS OF BURN!!!

She has mainly a 2nd degree burn, but part of it is considered a 3rd degree burn....my poor baby!

This is totally a mothers worst nightmare while camping, other than a bear attack.  This burn didn't stop her for too long from still having a great time camping.  Next time I just might be watching the fire like a hawk.