OH MY DOODLE.... Ouch, ouch, ouch!

[Donna Vee]

My poor little kid.... Last night my son (11) was in a hurry to get from the shower into the warmth of his bed and flew across the floor, not watching where he was stomping. One, two, three giant leaps and he came down hard on top of his belt buckle which he had left laying in the middle of his bedroom floor. Yep, as you might have guessed, the pin in the middle of the buckle went straight up into the center of his foot, DEEP! It was after 9:00, so we cleaned it up, stopped the bleeding and put a band aid on it.

All night long I had dreams of tetanus and infection so I called the Pedi, first thing this morning to find out when his last tetanus shot was. Sure enough, he was due for that and several more. It struck me that we JUST finished with shots for both doodles and Penny was finally spayed less than two weeks ago...IT'S NEVER ENDING!!!!! We will constantly be in either a vet's office or the pediatrician’s for the rest of our lives. Not that I'm unsympathetic, I felt terrible for my poor child. Not only did he get punctured in the foot he had to endure 2 blood tests, 3 shots and the humiliation of having to wee wee in a cup, all in a 12 hour time period.

Moral of the story....Obey your mother, put your clothes in the hamper.

[Doris, Knox & Flash]

I had to have a tetanus shot not too long ago, and it HURT!  Poor baby!!!  He must have felt like a pin cushion when his appointment was over!! 

[Donna Vee]

He was really brave. I was proud of him.

[Melissa]

Oh no!  Poor guy!  Maybe he can get some "coolness points" for showing his wound to his buddies. Do boys do that? :) 

 

I can remember when I was younger and visiting my grandparents in southern MO (in the country)...I was running across their carpeted living room floor, barefoot and there was a nail in it!  Went right into my foot!  ouch!

[Donna Vee]

He handled it really well. I took him our for lunch afterwards. I just don't know how he's going to get around. He can barely walk on it right now.

[Melissa]

Is there something you can make kind of like one of those corn cushions but large enough for the area around the puncture so that the center is open but he has cushion all around to alleviate the pressure when he walks?

[Donna Vee]

Ya, we'll have to come up with something like that. He has to go back to school tomorrow. Hopefully one of his buddies will carry his backpack. I wish we had some crutches. :'-(

[Leigh & Allie]

You might want to check around but I have heard that you can rent crutches from Walgreens and the like. Ask your doctor if he knows anywhere you can rent them if Walgreens does not do that.

[Melissa]

I was just going to say the same thing but you beat me to it! :)  Or CVS.

[Donna Vee]

Thanks girls, maybe I'll run over there after dinner and see.

[Leigh & Allie]

I was looking around a vacant house one time and stepped on a nail. I did not realize it for a minute then the pain began.......ouch.

[Donna Vee]

I know....his was delayed too... It started with ouch, Ouch OUCHHHHHH!!!! and then a very girly scream for an 11 year old boy...I felt so sorry for him and to be honest, I 'bout passed out when I saw the huge gaping hole in the bottom of his foot.

[Dori & Rua]

Poor guy.  I would hate being a pin cushion.  I bet that wasn't your son's moral of the story, was it????  :-)