Text from child that she has lead in her hand and the nurse can't get it out. No explanation. She wants me to bring tweezers at end of school.
I'm thinking, "the nurse does not have tweezers?" I text back, "should I come now? I can't find the good tweezers but I have some."
Text back: "No, just come after school. Cafeteria."
Something is not right. WHY is there pencil lead in the finger and WHY did my child just also text "I think it goes to the other side of my finger..."?
Lack of information. Call to school nurse. Message left. Call back. She says that I should go now and not after school because the Middle School Parents next door line up at the High School to pick up their children. And the High School Parents do the same. I ask, "Does anyone take the bus?" She responds, "Alpharetta." I nod like I know what she means: I'm from Roswell--we're like the aliens invading. My sense of new high school from the cars in the lot (the very sizable lot) is that Jeeps, SUV's, pricey and gas guzzler cars rule the school. And so these folks spend taxes on services they get (bus service) but would rather clog up the system to get their kids themselves. Ok, that's a rant. Back to story.
The nurse helps me to the area best lit to try to remove this "lead" (turns out to be graphite--hello, there are no lead pencils anymore) from my daughter's finger. I'm causing pain. I get a chunk, but it's like pulling mud. There's more.
I think there's no end to it, so we decide it's the Urgent Care next. Urgent Care says, "sorry, we can't operate if its embedded." We then go to ER. I'm thinking "well, if Urgent Care would have been free because my husband works at the hospital that sponsors these clinics, then ER should be free too." No, No, No. I am wrong.
But ER determines that we have to go in surgically to remove the graphite stuck in her finger. Brave, my girl. I'm stressing because the said High School's Open House is that same night--and I'm about to miss it. My husband, who works at the hospital, agrees to take child home as I run to garage and speed to school to hear all about the curriculum in each class--sort of interesting. I'm distracted by all kinds of things.
Child is asleep. I've notified the right folks that she will not be running Cross Country for 2 days. I've let the nurse know that she'll need pain meds for the next two days, and I'm just praying that no infection occurs. Delete, Delete, Delete. This day will just not UNDO itself. So here is the crap shot for the day. Off to sleep. Perchance to sleep.
What a day. If it's any comfort my daughter was picked up from school last week with a broken finger that happened during a game of netball. The brave girl kept playing though and not a tear was shed until she was safely in the car with Mum and off to A&E for x-rays, strapping and pain relief (all at a cost of course) and is now off sports for 6 weeks! Have a good sleep too!!!
@graemestevens Yikes. So sorry. Unfortunately, this wound was because some boy sitting next to her at lunch decided to slam his pencil on the table to break his lead--he stabbed my daughter's finger instead...
@froggie0628 Thanks Amanda. REDO! Seriously. Thankfully, no xcountry meet for my daughter this weekend. So she's not going to "miss" something important. She's just going to look a bit funny with a bandage on her pointer finger!
Oh, ,goodness. My son dropped a very sharp pencil on the floor one time and it got stuck in the top of my daughter's foot. We were able to pull it out, sort of. Many, many years later, she still has a gray mark on the top of her foot! Glad this is an off weekend for cross country to give her time to recurperate.
@danette A kid sitting next to her at lunch decided to break his mechanical pencil on the table and stabbed it down and it went into my kid's hand, which was right there in front of him...
