Well this sweet little one has cost us several hundred dollars!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Last Monday, the 9th, I had dropped Brooklyn off at dance (after her complaining of a stomachache, should've listened...) and came back home to practice Blake's poem with him before heading to baseball practice. I was sitting on the couch in the family room and he was standing up, shuffling his bare foot on the ground when all of a sudden he screamed and lifted his foot. The above mentioned pencil had stabbed into the bottom of his foot!!! After Blake yanked it out, it was bleeding pretty good and the lead was gone from the pencil so I knew it was in his foot. Thank heavens Matt was only 5 minutes away from getting home, so he was able to assess the damage immediately.
Not even joking, in that very moment, the dance studio called to say that Brooklyn was vomitting in the bathroom and that I needed to come get her. Aaaahhhhh! As soon as I got back with Brooklyn, Matt & Blake headed off to urgent care to get his foot looked at.
The physician's assistant tried getting the lead out and was unsuccessful, then called in the MD, who wasn't able to get it out either. So they stitched his foot and wrapped it up and referred us to a podiatrist the next day. After the podiatrist dug around for awhile, he gave up too. No need to cause unnecessary damage to the foot, I guess. Poor Blakey!!! Matt said he was such a trooper through all these processes. He just ended up being stitched up again and had to wear a shoe-boot thingie until our follow-up with the podiatrist today, a week later.
Not even joking, in that very moment, the dance studio called to say that Brooklyn was vomitting in the bathroom and that I needed to come get her. Aaaahhhhh! As soon as I got back with Brooklyn, Matt & Blake headed off to urgent care to get his foot looked at.
The physician's assistant tried getting the lead out and was unsuccessful, then called in the MD, who wasn't able to get it out either. So they stitched his foot and wrapped it up and referred us to a podiatrist the next day. After the podiatrist dug around for awhile, he gave up too. No need to cause unnecessary damage to the foot, I guess. Poor Blakey!!! Matt said he was such a trooper through all these processes. He just ended up being stitched up again and had to wear a shoe-boot thingie until our follow-up with the podiatrist today, a week later.
His foot is healING, but not completely healED, so the stitches stay in, but he can wear a normal shoe again and we have to come back in a week. Ka-ching, ka-ching, ka-ching!!!
We've joked that Blake will always have a "lead foot" now. ;)
Both Brooklyn and Blake HAD whined that they didn't want to go to baseball practice that day, so I think they did this on purpose. LOL!
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Freaky. I'm assuming since it's stuck in his foot and not ingested, it isn't a big deal for it to stay in his foot, right?
Ouch. Every time I see scissors (even blunt little kids ones) I think of Trevor W. and snatch them up. Now I'll probably do that with pencils too. :)
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