WARNING: Watch out for Hotel Doors

We were on vacation in Las Vegas for my husbands 40th birthday, on Sunday the 17th (the day after hubby's special day) we were fixing to go to the airport. Called the bell hop 30 mins before we needed them because hey we know that it takes a good 20 to 30 mins for them to get to you anyways. We had a shuttle to take us the airport so we need to be downstairs shortly after the bell hop would have gotten there. Well, they claimed that they did not take advanced calls....to call back when we needed them and they would send someone straight up. Kirk called the Assistant Manager who did nothing to help the situation (please note Kirk only has one arm, so a bell hop is very important service for us). We waited and called back 20 minutes after the initial call to let them know that we were ready for them. They said it was now going to be a 20 to 30 minute wait to get a bell hop to our room. Of course there was another call made to the Assistant Manager (she was the only one on duty at the time, when it came to managerial staff). Well, I knew that the shuttle would be there long before the bell hop ever got to us. So I told Kirk I would move the luggage myself to the elevator and he said, that will take you 4 trips. I said well if that is what it takes then that is what I will have to do, we don't have time to wait for the bell hop to get up here because we will miss our shuttle. So I went out the door grabbed 2 wheeled suitcases and started down the hall. I got about 1 1/2 rooms away when I heard Edward (I didn't know that he had followed me to help me) letting out a blood curdling scream. I ran back toward him, when I got closer I could see his fingers were in the door jam (the side with the hinges...this door is one of those tension doors they now have in hotels to insure your door will close behind you if you don't shut it all the way yourself). I pushed the door open so he could remove his fingers, that is when I saw more blood than I should have. His middle left finger tip right below the nail was hanging there and bleeding terribly. I took him into the bathroom, screaming that he had cut his finger in the door. He had actually almost amputated, only the back side of the finger was still left attached. Needless to say we missed our flight, and spent 4 plus hours in a Las Vegas Childern's Hospital ER. They were able to stitch his finger back on. They called it a Crush Injury. There is a tiny little bone at the tips of the fingers that got severed from the rest. It will heal over time. His finger will just have cosmetic damage to it but he will always have trauma from the actual injury and what he had to go through to get his finger stitched back together (they had to burrito roll him in a blanket and hold him down to stitch him back up). We put a ballpoint pen in the area where Edward had his fingers and let the door swing close on its own, it crushed the pen. So please, please, please watch your little ones around all those types of doors that are tensioned to automatically close behind you at hotels, doctors offices, restrooms and so forth. Please note I am withholding the hotel name for legal purposes. We ended up spending an additional night in Las Vegas, then caught a flight home on Monday only to get laid over in Phoenix because the flight was over booked. Finally made it home Tuesday afternoon. It has been a week now since his accident with the door and Edwards finger is healing nicely. As for his fingernail, he will loose it and time will only tell if it will grow back and if so how it was effected by the injury.