Boys Will Be Boys

Well, we've had our first emergency visit to the doctor. Last night was quite the adventure. I got into the car to visit my parents with Ethan and little did I know I'd be ending the night, rather late, after visiting the doctor.

Ethan was running and playing, as usual, and he knocked over a metal weight my dad uses to hold the garage door shut on windy days (the garage is one of those old fashioned lift up doors rather than roll ones). Well, he knocked it right on to his little foot. This, of course, caused blood to be everywhere and him to be screaming. When the bleeding wouldn't stop after I had put pressure for a couple of minutes, I called the Instacare and told them we were coming in.

Ethan was hurting so my dad drove us in his car and I sat in the back with him. I explained that we would go to the doctor to fix his foot. When we got to the clinic, we held him while we waited. He had cried so much, he actually fell asleep in my arms in the waiting room.

When we finally got back to see the doctor, they gave him some Motrin, cleaned out his foot, gave him a sucker, and decided that he needed an x-ray. We went to have the x-ray done and sure enough, he had fractured the tip of his big toe. You can't really see it too well, but the little dark line on the top of the x-ray is the fracture.

Thankfully, he didn't need stitches. After they irrigated the wound, which Ethan thought tickled, they found that it bled a lot, but wasn't very deep. They wrapped it, sent us home with some antibiotics, since the fracture was in such close proximity to the cut, and gave him a post op surgical shoe to wear for the next two to three weeks, or until he doesn't have any pain. What a night! By the end, I was so tired. Ethan seems to have bounced back today. He's still careful on his foot, but he has been good about wearing the shoe. His foot isn't hurting him so much today either so that's a good sign I guess.

I guess that's what you get when you have Hufstetler for your last name. I'm sure this will be the first in many visits over the years for various things.