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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. :-(
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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Date: 2008-03-11 03:56 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2008-03-11 05:44 am (UTC)Luckily, he didn't need a shot (more pain!), but they did take x-rays and give him antibiotics. I'm sure it will be sore this week.
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Date: 2008-03-11 11:15 am (UTC)(I'm old. I just don't act my age. ;) )