Thursday, October 06, 2005

"Footpick"

About an hour after my last post I somehow magaged to inpale my foot with a toothpick. GOOD TIMES!!

After attempting to pull it out myself I decided to drive to K.L.'s to give her a whack at it. No luck. We seemed to have accomplished nothing more than making my foot even MORE tender and MORE swollen. So off to the ER I went.

Thankfully no one seems to need ER services on a Thursday morning. They took me straight up to x-ray (this I found brilliant considering the toothpick was WOOD and very likely not going to show on film), and decided we had to cut it open.

After nine...yes NINE shots to numb the ball of my foot, the doctor pulled out his scalpel. "Is this going to make you nervous or ill?" he asked. I giggled. "No. If I can manage to give birth to 6 kids and do my own piercings I think I can handle a scalpel." And we were off. He cut my foot and pulled out a lovely inch long piece of toothpick.

It took a good 20 minutes for my foot to fianlly stop bleeding. Then they wrapped me up, told me to stay off it, and sent me on my merry way.

What a morning. And all I wanted to do was clean my house.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Reminds of the time your mom ran a huge splinter in her foot & her baby brother called an ambulance as they had taught him how in pre-school. What a riot!!! Hope it feels better soon.

... said...

Did they volunteer to cook and clean for 6 kids when they told you to stay off it??? Who are they kidding, I bet you are on it right now!!!