Jordan's accident

Jordan's finger after a month.

As many of you know, on February 3rd, Jordan had a bad accident. Her grandfather was picking up all the kids from school. Ron is handicapped and is in a wheelchair so he drives a big van with automatic closing doors. Justin got into the back of the van and pushed the button to close the automatic doors. At the same time, Jordan was climbing into the front seat and had her hand just on the inside of the automatic doors.

The door closed on her left ring finger and almost severed the top of her finger. Ron rushed her home where Jerime immediately took her to the Emergency room in Nephi. I met him there right as they arrived. They hooked her up with an IV and gave her morphine while they took x-rays. She had definitely crushed her bone both horizontally and vertically. The ER doctor instructed us to take her immediately to Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City which is about a 2 hour drive from our house. Primary Children's is a hospital in renowned in the west for its children's services. The ER had already called ahead to the ER at PCH and let them know she was on the way.

Once we arrived, they called in a plastic surgeon to work on Jordan's finger. She had crushed her bone in the top of her finger and had severed her tendon and main artery in her finger. Dr. Spann gave her 12 stitches and splinted her finger. Since her bone was in so many pieces, there was no way to try and stabilize her bone to make sure it healed right. We would just have to wait and and see.

I am happy to report that after 6 weeks, her tendon has reattached, her bones appear to be healing perfectly and she is doing wonderfully. She goes to physical therapy twice a week to make sure she gains full use of her finger back.