The actual finger (some images near the end may be too much for some people...)

Wesley's ring finger on his left hand was broken in a Turkey Bowl (football) accident on Thanksgiving. He had to get surgery to repair it yesterday. The doctor hoped to just go in and put in a couple screws. However, when he opened up Wesley's finger, he found that instead of one big chunk of bone, it was actually 3 smaller chunks and thus could not be screwed in. So, it had to have a button and wire system put in to fix it. And folks, he did all this under LOCAL anaesthetic. Wow! Now we have to be careful to avoid infection as he now has a wire hanging out of his finger for the next 6 weeks. Here are some before and after surgery pictures:

Here is the finger un-splinted right before we left home for the surgical center.

Waiting to go into surgery.

After the surgery yesterday he came out with a giant covering on his arm. This morning we met with the physical therapist to get the new brace fitted. This is the first wrap:

Warning-next couple pics are a bit gruesome (maybe not for faint of heart). This is what his finger looks like under all that...

He got a bit faint from the pain as they fitted his new brace...(Poor guy!)