“Why do these things keep happening to me?!?” Thomas cried out last night. It broke my heart. Poor kid has had a rough week! First the jagged metal hanging off the broken tent post cut him last Thursday at a swim meet, then the wagon handle seemed to find his eye on Monday and then tonight, he stepped on something a few feet from our dinner table.
We were quite perplexed as to what it was. I had just vacuumed the day before and couldn’t tell you when the last time we broke anything sharp. But he was clearly in pain and something had clearly pierced his heel. After trying to find it and get it out ourselves, we couldn’t seem to figure it out. We were pretty sure SOMETHING was in there…you could sort of see it just under the surface of the skin and Thomas was begging to go to the doctor. So we took him to the local urgent care facility. I think the doctor thought we were a bit crazy and thought there was nothing in his foot. He told Thomas he could dig around in there or give him an xray. I was sort of against him having an x-ray when it seemed a bit unnecessary, but I was feeling so sorry for Thomas and didn’t want him to have any more pain than necessary. If I had it to do again, we would have skipped the x-ray and I would have followed my intuition that KNEW something was there…but we had the xray, and sure enough…something was there:
See that little thing right there in his heel? Turned out to be a very small, but very jagged piece of glass -- about a 1/2 a centimeter long and 1/4 centimeter wide. Still don’t know where on earth it came from, but after a numbing shot and then almost 10 minutes of digging around by the doctor, it was finally out. Whew. If things do in fact come in threes, then that’s his third freak accident in a week, so let’s be done for at least a year. Thanks universe. :)
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