You put your left foot in, you put your left foot out...

[navygreen]

(I need an updated usericon for A.J. Both of my current ones are several years old. *note to self*)

A.J. and Philip are at the Urgent Care Clinic right now. The boys were playing outside, in our yard, the neighbor's yard, and over at the park, and all was quiet. Philip was home from work and had fallen into a snooze on the couch. I had candles lit, and it was serene.

Then the garage door burst open, and a tearful, dirt-streaked A.J. hobbled in. He yelled for me, and as I entered the dining room, he was removing one of his shoes. His sock was soaked in blood, and he gulped as he told me that he'd stepped on a plank, sending a nail through his shoe and into his foot.

OUCH.

It was still bleeding heavily, so we applied pressure for a bit with the already-bloody sock. Philip woke up, ran into the dining room, assessed the situation, and then changed clothes to take A.J. in. I grabbed A.J.'s current shot records from his baby album, we wrapped paper towels around the puncture wound and carefully put his foot back into the bloody shoe, and then he limped out to the car with Dad.

His shots are current, so I don't know if he'll need a Tetanus shot or not (he's had several doses of DTaP). However, we can't properly clean a puncture wound like that, so it's just best to let the professionals do their job. They've been gone for over an hour now - hopefully they'll be back home soon.

I'm sure A.J.'s foot is going to be mighty sore the next day or so. Poor kid. :-(

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[mrspiggync.livejournal.com]

That doesn't sound like too much fun. I hope the Urgent Care takes good care of him. I guess that's one way to get new shoe's :( Keep us posted !

[sunnycowgirl.livejournal.com]

I did that when I was a kid too. And the parent's just soaked my foot in water and Epsom salt. Healed up just fine and dandy. I think your suppose to get a tetanus shot every 5-7 years?

[the-fishery.livejournal.com]

I did this when I was 9. I was too afraid to tell my mom because I was somewhere I was not supposed to be. It healed just fine but I'm sure I could have used a Tetanus shot though. My foot didn't bleed like A.J.'s did though. Actually, I don't think it bled at all.

[butterflymama3.livejournal.com]

Oh poor AJ! I hope it isn't too serious.

[teacher-tabi.livejournal.com]

wow, I hope he feels better and gets it all cleaned up.

I stepped on a rusty nail while I was pregnant with Logan, back in June. It hurt like hell. :(

[rafferty.livejournal.com]

Been there, done that, although mine wasn't nearly as bad as his sounds :(
I don't think he's old enough to have to worry about getting his tetanus shot updated, like I had to.

[kerryblaze.livejournal.com]

Ouch!!!! It sounds like he handled it well too. *snuggles him*

[the-mommy-in-me.livejournal.com]

Poor Kid! I guess with boys blood is always a possibility. ;-)

I hope he feels better soon!

[gardenmama.livejournal.com]

Ooo, that brings back painful memories. Yep, I did that. At about the same age AJ is. Only, it was summer, and I wasn't wearing any shoes.

Hope it heals quickly!

[bigbrain61.livejournal.com]

OOOOooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwhopehe'sokay.

[prosodic.livejournal.com]

I was at a friend's birthday party in either middle school or early high school, and I was barefoot in her backyard playing volleyball. Somehow, my foot managed to find a sharp, rusty pipe sticking out of the ground.

So oof...I have some inkling of his pain. I hope he'll be healed up and back to running around in no time (keeping his eyes out for nails, of course!).

[flyingwolf.livejournal.com]

ouch
I stepped on a nail in '97 (I remember the year 'cause it was 10 years after I got my previous tetnus shot in basic training). But it didn't bleed as much as A.J.'s did and all I did was get a new tetanus shot the next day. I'm sure you've got lots of instructions from the hospital. Doubt they'd be able to clean it any more then you could, but they could give him antibiotics if it's that deep. (when I had a chair leg go through my finger nail they didn't even try to do anything. Just X-ray'd (bone was "squished"), splint, wrap and antibiotics.

Hope it missed the bones and is somewhere he can more easily avoid putting weight on for a while.

[lilmissriss.livejournal.com]

OMG! I hope he's okay!! That has to hurt =(

[saffirebleu.livejournal.com]

Poor A.J. That had to hurt like crazy.

[mattloveskatie.livejournal.com]

i stepped on a nail at work, this past summer. it wasn't THAT bad, but it still hurt for a few days.
i hope everything is ok now.