Theron was hit by a flying Tomahawk blade today. Someone was swinging a hand-made-at-scout-camp tomahawk around the kitchen and the stone blade flew off and smacked Theron in the forehead. I waffled for awhile, but when it was still oozing enough blood to soak through a bandaid hours later I took him to urgent care. The dr. was a jerk and did a lousy job of numbing him, which is to say he was not numb, Theron that is, not the jerk numb-nuts dr. So he cried while the guy stitched him which was really hard to watch. Then he prescribed an antibiotic and said that he wanted to see Theron again in 2 days to check for infection. Um, no, I will not bring my child back to you Mr. Sadistic, I'd rather take him to his creepy pediatrician.
On that note, Dad damaged himself on a bike ride with Biffy and I on Saturday morning. I have to say that even injured he is a better cyclist than I.
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Stupid doctor, they can be so arrogant.
They say things happen in three's so watch out!
(I had retarded spelling in the last comment)
Good pediatricians are few and far between. And it is very difficult to watch them unnecssarily put them through pain becuase they are jerks and forget that they are 'practicing' on little kids. Grrrrr. Next time you should make the journey to my pediatrician. He is the best of the best. Sorry Theron and Grandpa have been so banged up these last couple of days. I hope that they both get better soon.
Having to have stitches is never and easy thing to begin with. But when you see the numbing agent running out through the cut, even being a moron doctor, would one think that it is still not gonna numb the site???? Which is what happened with Theron, the doctor injected above the cut, it all ran out through the cut. In my old age, I think I would just suffer through the pain of the stitches anymore. This way I would be billed for something that didn't work to begin with.
poor kid! emergency room doctors are generally supreme a-holes. "what you have is incurable and will likely cause your demise. NEXT!"
I had to have stitches in my heel as a kid, and I remember asking them like 50 times if they were finished before they'd even started.
Ma did take me to get Superman ice cream afterward though. WOO HOO! I remember thinking it was the best ice cream ever, and it was just multi-colored vanilla.
I am sooooo sorry you had to go through this! I understand about watching your child have to go through something like that. We took Sean to get a blood draw. We even took him to the pediatric floor of the hospital. The first time, Gabe took him and the second time I did. Why twice? The lab screwed up - BOTH TIMES! But I watched as the nurses first numbed two spots (and I should have told them to numb all the spots they would eventually have to try)and then went into those sites only to get no blood. They tried another site with again, no luck. Enter nurse 2. She tried three sites (including Sean's little scalp!) - no luck. Enter emergency room nurse - she got as much blood as we were going to see that day. The best part? The lab sent the wrong tube to transport the blood in, so we couldn't get a result. All that for nothing. I want to sue someone! O.k. now that I got that out, I feel a little better =). I hope you and Theron are feeling a little better too =).
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