day was pretty much okay.
slight bit different to a normal day though ... got phonecall from the dean at Sabrina's school to tell me that she was in a bit of pain cause she got a piece of wood lodged in under her fingernail and it was too far for them to get it out for her.
Apparently she was erasing the blackboard and jumped to reach the top of the board and on her way down slipped and fell and the hand got damaged on the wooden wall on the side ... **ouchie**
So ... called around at the docs who all said "hmmm under the nail? dunno but bring her" ... two regular GPs on standby until missy came to the office (her school is just two buildings away) and I saw it Shocked the sliver of wood was literally FULLY UNDER the left pinky fingernail wedged wayyyyy far in.
No way a regular GP would be able to get at that so then I understood the "hmmmmmm"s on the phone ... so my boss and myself packed her in the car and off to Westshore Medical Hospital with her, while she had the finger in a cup of ice which helped ease the pain (however, she had pain even past the wrist and middle of the arm also)
All this time .. kid is calm (in pain but very calm) and mother is anxious LOL .. doing my good old breathing exercises on the way to the hospital while not looking at the bleeding finger cause then I'd get all quezy inside.
anyhoo ... nurses and doc were gems ... kiddo was quite amusing with her chats that she gave to them LOL.
Doc asked for the smallest tweezer that the nurse could get her hands on .. she left the room and returned with a doozee .. "um doctor, there aren't any tweezers"
:shock:
At this point I kinda remember looking around to make sure I was really in a hospital and not a bakery or a shoeshop cause isn't a tweezer a basic thing to have???
I wasn't the only one cause the look on the doctor's face was priceless too! lol
Anyway .. he decided that next best thing would be to inject the finger at three points to numb it fully and lift the fingernail off so that he could scrape out the splinter(s)
He did just that and seemed to have gotten all out ... the reason for the pain in her wrist up was because it was lodged so far up that it was pressing on a nerve-ending ... as soon as he removed it all pain disappeared.
Only charged me the emergency room fee because he said Missy had them fully amused ALL of the time LOL Laughing and she really did ... oh boy! was she chatty and on a roll today!
She's now at home here with me totally sporting her brand new bandaged finger ... she's sooooooooooo proud of it LOL jiggin' all over the place right now.
Have to get her antibiotics and painkillers in a lil bit and take her for ice cream (that ice cream was HER idea popping out of nowhere just now .. hmmmm .. she did good tho and was pretty brave cause she only almost bit the nurse only once Shocked when the nail was being lifted off LOL
Have to take her back in a couple of days to check if its started healing properly and free of all infection. If the pain comes back then its a possibility that there could possibly be more wood embedded in the nailbed so another procedure might have to be done.
Keeping fingers crossed that they got everything out this first time.
how's that for a semi-normal day?
xxx Lisa xxx
