Burned!

Poor Noa! Last night, as I was cooking dinner she came over to stand next to me put her hand on the outside of our very hot oven. I didn’t know it got THAT hot, but it burned her pretty bad I don’t think my heart has broken like it does when she is in pain and last night, she was in a LOT of pain. We quickly put her hand under cold water and then tried to get her to hold a cold towel with ice in it. She didn’t want anything to do with either, she just kept stiffening and relaxing her whole arm, trying to figure out why her hand felt like that, and crying so pathetically. Finally, after skipping dinner (you know something’s wrong when Noa doesn’t want to eat) and almost two hours of crying, she fell asleep in my arms with me holding her arm so she wouldn’t touch anything. Then, as she slept, we were able to put antibiotic cream on it and wrap it and put her to bed.
Praise the Lord, she slept all night and woke up happy this morning, though pretty annoyed by having her left hand all bandaged and useless. She had the bandage off before I even got her downstairs and we were able to inspect her hand. She has some blisters on her palm and on two fingertips and her hand is pretty red. We applied more ointment and Eric helped me rebandage it (hopefully Noa-proof this time) before he left for school. She’s done great, hasn’t really messed with it and is carrying on as normal. I’m so proud of her, and so thankful that its not worse. Please pray that she heals quickly and that her blisters wouldn’t be too irritated by her crawling around on them all the time. Also, pray for wisdom for us as we try to protect her hand but its hard with such an active little girl. Also, I don’t really know what to do about that oven. I guess I won’t be cooking when its just one-on-one me and Noa
You can see her bandaged hand in these pictures. In the bottom one, she is “drawing” a picture (that was actually drawn by one of Eric’s students. Noa just goes over paper with her closed pen).

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