) and then I heat things up, make the pasta, rice, whatever. While he does that I usually am copy editing, and kids do their homework. I had just put my tea and Yodels down next to the computer so I could start my work at teatime when I heard him yelp and DD gasp. I went running to the kitchen and find him running his hand in the water in the sink. At first I thought he burned himself but no---he was using the new mandolin that he had wanted for so long and that I finally got him for Christmas. It was the first time he was using it and he wanted to make a zucchini dish that he saw Lidia make on TV. Aisling had been getting ice cream and talking to Dad when it happened. I always worried that I would be a spaz in an emergency but I kept a cool head, wrapped his finger in gauze and WASHI TAPE (since we had no medical tape!), wrote down all his Rx, and...distracting DD to tell her to go text her brother who was on his way home from an overnight film shoot at school...cleaned up the mandolin, zucchini and (bit graphic, sorry, I thought I was going to faint but I didn't) found his fingertip. I didn't know if we would need it so I put it in a baggie with ice cubes and threw it in my purse. I've carried a lot of weird things in my purse but that has to take the cake! Turned out they did not need that because although we thought it was big, they said it would likely just grow back sort of. So we spent about 7 hours at the emergency room. He has to go back to see a hand specialist on Thursday morning. He had already scheduled a day off on Friday, just because but now the only day he is actually going to work this week is Wednesday! He's okayish now. It still hurts obviously and I'm supposed to change the dressing tomorrow and I'm really scared to!Update: April 19 - Anthony had the appointment with the hand specialist today. The finger looks good supposedly (I still have not seen it completely), for what happened. The doctor cleaned him up and gave him several options - skin grafting from one finger to this one, fusing (?) the tip of his injured finger to his palm to heal it that way, or just let it heal naturally. That is the option the doctor recommended. He said the other ways were "just ways to make money". Hey, I like this doctor!!
So now DH has butterfly stitches and a bandage. He goes back again next Tuesday and we are not to touch the dressing at all. Whew!! 
Note on the washi tape - LOL - You guys will appreciate this...turns out the roll of washi that I grabbed was the same red white & blue stripe that I used on the layout I did about when DS went to the ER for a sprained ankle (same ER). Think I did that subliminally LOL??
I am an OCD warrior and I fight for my son. 
