Graphic content warning: This article includes photos of injured fingers.
After a baby’s mother was caught on a folding footstool, her fingertips were cut off, urging other parents to realize the danger and keep their hands far beyond the small ones.
Kay de Bruyn35, Alberta, Canada, said she had put a footstool next to the sofa so that her eldest son could watch TV up and down.
But one morning, the disaster broke out for a moment, and a “loud” was heard, and then her young son, a screaming and crying son.
“I’ve never heard such a cry before,” De Bruen told the UK HuffPost. “He lay on his stomach, his feces collapsed now, on the ground in front of him.
“I thought he might have tripped his face. But when I picked him up, blood was everywhere. I caught a glimpse of his middle finger-it seemed to have disappeared.”
The mother said her son was unable to fix it and she began to panic.
“I grabbed a clean cloth from the bathroom and held it on his fingers. I wish I could say I was calm, but I lost it completely,” she said.
After calling her husband and parents, she and her son ran across the road and knocked down the neighbor’s door.
“I explained what happened and asked them to check if their fingertips were actually gone,” she said.
“They gently took my son, checked and confirmed. Still holding him, they returned to the house with me and even proposed to drive us to the emergency room.”
The parents quickly ran upstairs to see if she could find her fingertips. “That was when I saw it: the tip of his finger was still stuck on the stool,” she recalled.
“I took the stool downstairs and my neighbor pried it out with a clean kitchen. When he did, I called emergency services and they instructed me to put my fingertips in a clean plastic bag.
“The ambulance arrived and took us to the Children’s Hospital where they re-touched their fingers. Unfortunately, part of it didn’t survive and eventually fell off.”
With a portion of her fingertips missing, her son’s nails are now growing on his fingertips, and the family hopes to refer to a plastic surgeon.
“While he doesn’t seem to be excited about it now, I want to share our story – because I know this type of stool is common in many families,” DeBruen said.
After posting a scroll about what happened, the parents said two other families contacted her and said the same thing happened to their children.
She added: “If I knew something like this could happen, I would never keep it in our home.”
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