9-year-old goes to ARH with finger still in rail
Published 12:00 am Tuesday, February 9, 2016
An Andalusia boy had a scary, but humorous incident Friday afternoon at Johnson Park Skate Park.
Amelia Klosowsky said her 9-year-old son, Chandler, and her husband, went to the park for Chandler to skateboard.
“Most kids his age don’t have such small fingers,” she said. “But Chandler does. He stuck his finger in one of the holes on the guard rail.”
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Klosowsky said her husband asked her to bring some oil to the park, but they were unable to free Chandler’s finger.
“We told them in the office at Johnson Park,” she said. “They called 911.”
Klosowsky said that for about an hour and a half, two patrol units, a drug task force agent, two fire truck units and two EMS units worked to get Chandler’s finger unstuck.
“After not being able to get his finger out, they called someone from the city to come, and he took a section of the guard rail off, and loaded my son with the guard rail attached and took him to the hospital in the ambulance,” she said.
Klosowsky said that Chandler went into the ER at Andalusia Regional Hospital with the guard rail still on his finger.
“The doctor finally got it compressed enough to get it out,” she said. “That’s the only time he had any pain, but the doctor was able to put a lot of KY Jelly on it and get it out. We had tried olive oil and Desitin, also.”
Kloswosky said after they assured her that her son was going to be find, she said she thought it was a funny incident.
“I thought it was funny that this 9-year-old had summoned so many people,” she said. “We got pictures of it.”