Urgent Care 101

For the first time ever we all accidentally slept in this morning. I never set an alarm because Holdyn is like an alarm clock himself and wakes me up every day at 7:30 on the dot. Today he got up at 6. I almost died. We let Bay out to go potty and I tucked them both back in bed hoping he would go back to sleep. I told him if he wasn't tired, he could get up and play in his room but to be quiet (he does this often but always wakes me up 15 minutes later or so). Well I guess he and Bay fell back to sleep because he came and woke me up at 9:15!! I thought I was seeing things when I looked at the clock because we have to leave the house by 8:15 to get Holdyn to school on time. I ran in the kitchen to look at the clock on the microwave because I just KNEW we did not oversleep because that NEVER happens! Well believe it or not, the clock was right. The school asks you not come late because it disrupts the class, which I totally understand, so Holdyn had his first day ever of playing Hookie from school 'just because'. About that time, a truck full of men pulled up to install our new fence. Well I knew Holdyn would LOVE watching them so I thought 'well I guess this was the perfect day to skip school, if we ever did!' He got to go outside and watch them use all of their machinery. He was in awe! He told me he was going to go outside and climb a tree to watch the men. As he walked out the door I said "put your shoes on!" Now do you think Holdyn listened?! Of course not! He is 4 and a half and knows SO much more than I do! He obviously didn't put shoes on and came back inside limping about 15 minutes later screaming that he had a splinter in his foot. I am thinking a small tiny splinter that I can pull out with some tweezers. I told him to sit down and let me look at it. I pulled his foot up and holy moly there was something way down in the heel of his foot that was HUGE. He wouldn't let me get near it it hurt so bad but there was nothing even sticking out that I could have gotten tweezers to be able to pull it out. He told me it was 'just a cut' but it was obvious it was a foreign object. I called my neighbor over to look at it also for a second opinion. She agreed it was very deep and there was NO way we could get it out ourselves. I called his peditrican and they gave him an appointment for FIVE hours later.... yes 5!!! I kinda went off on the lady and she said " Well just give him some tylenol and let him watch a movie and try to keep him still." Ummm seriously?! He is 4!!! He was in severe pain and you want him to wait FIVE hours!! I was SO mad. Looks like we will be switching back to our Savannah doctor. My neighbor is friends with the doctor that just opened an urgent care walk in clinic in town. She called his cell phone to make sure they took my insurance. Thank goodness they did! We both threw on clothes and off we went. They took us right back and they were soooo nice! They gave him a shot in the foot to numb it up (poor baby!! That was the worst part ever!) I held his upper body down while another nurse held his legs down. The doctor tried to pull it out with tweezers and she couldn't even get it out so they had to use a scaple and cut it open to get it all out. She said there was NO way we could have gotten it out ourselves. She found 3 small pieces of metal fragment and a large piece of a wood splinter. She even put it in a vile and let him bring it home! He plans on taking it to school tomorrow to show his friends and tell them why it's important to wear shoes outside!

This was after the numbing shot. They were giving it time to take effect and in the mean time, they gave Holdyn a blue popsicle! He was in love! He even got to get ice cream sandwiches and superhero popsicles from the grocery store on the way home while we waited on his prescriptions to be filled. If you look closesly, you can see a large white area on his foot. that is the 'numbing shot stuff'. I didn't know it changed your body colors! How cool is that! He finished his popsicle and they cut it open and had to dig deep but they got it all out and he didn't feel a thing! He was such a trooper!

Lesson learned: Never sleep late and get your children to school on time and never let them play hookie. If he would have been at school, this would have never happened!!!

Here is what it looked like right before we left the house. It doesn't look too big by the picture but it was HUGE in person! This is RIGHT after it happened and his heel had already started turning red and started to swell immediately. I knew that wasn't a good sign!