About that toe...

On Thursday, J was trying to sit at the table. Innocent enough right? The problem arose when he didn't quite make it onto the bench at the table. Instead, he knocked it over right onto the big toe on his left foot. OUCH!!

His poor toe was immediately black and purple and swollen. There was actually a cut in the skin below the nail too and it was bleeding all over the place. I realized it was pretty bad when I noticed the blood all over his foot and the floor. I set him on the counter to inspect and clean, he noticed the blood and his crying turned into complete hysterics.  

It looked pretty bad but I was pretty sure the doc wouldn't do much for a smashed toe. (Not to mention the fact that his new insurance didn't pick up for another two days) We sat on the couch for two hours with crying and going back and forth with the ice: "It's too cold."-take the ice off, and, "Mom, it hurts."-put the ice back on. On Friday, it was still bleeding and Mommy got pretty concerned. Sooo, for the first time in our family,  Urgent Care here we come. 

It turns out that Jake hit his toe harder than anyone thought. He had a temperature and they were concerned about infection under the nail. There was a bunch of blood and fluid built up under neath it. They cauterized eight holes through his nail so the fluid could drain. The cut in his toe went down to the nail underneath. It wasn't deep enough for stitches but they cut back the skin for a clean wound. They took x-rays and his poor toe is broken. In two places!! He has to keep it in the splint until we hear more. One break is down at the growth plate and  the urgent care doc was concerned about it healing correctly. The radiologist person will take a look and either confirm or deny what the doc saw and we should hear back this week. If it is what the doc thought, we have to see an orthopedic specialist and possibly go through a re-break or surgery so his toe will heal and grow correctly.

A few funny things...A) the doc was highly impressed with J's pain tolerance, that's actually what lead to the splint. She was concerned he would injure it further with his lack of attention to it. B) When they gave him "shots" to numb the toe, I laid him down on the table and gave him my phone to play a game. He picked one that records like ten seconds of sound and plays it back in a squeaky cat voice. He noticed he was laying down and everyone was holding him down. He's no dummy. He started yelling, "Don't hold me down. I don't want shots Mom. I don't want you to hold me down." Then it was all played back in a high squeaky cat voice...as was all of the yelling and crying and shrieking. It was hard to see my son so unhappy, but kind of amusing to have all of his screaming played back in such a way. He was even smiling at it occasionally.