Bio Hazard

A couple of weeks ago, Whitley crashed off her bike. She got some nice road rash on her elbow and cut a little chunk out of her ring finger. You know, the kind that still has a flap of skin hanging on it! I washed it all up, and kept a band aid and neosporin on it for a few days, and called it good. Never thought about it again, until this morning! I woke Whit up, and while she was stretching I noticed that her finger was black and red and swollen. Yea, I said BLACK! I asked her if that was from her bike accident and she says "I thinks so". I asked if it was sore, and she said "only when I touch it!"

I give some serious thought to taking her downstairs, and having a go at it, but then decide that that might be the brightest idea I've ever had. I make an appt. with her pediatrician (who we've never seen before) and go in to have it checked out. Long story short, they take a big needle and poke a hole in it to see what comes out. Thankfully, not much. So Dr. is just a diggin' in this wound, and Whit is being such a trooper. After two needles, and way too much digging, he finally pops out this little black rock! They put it in a bio hazard bag for her to take it home.

I felt like such a fool. I had been the one to wash it out-score one for me. Anyway, they wash the wound out, and put neosporin and a band aid on it, and send me away with a prescription for Augmentin just in case there's infection.

The funny part is, that the whole time we're going through this drama, I have Colton snapping pictures of the event so I can blog about it later! He's not the best photographer, but there are a couple of shots that will help us remember this better.