Nail-biting & Needles

You would not normally think that nail-biting and needles might possibly go together.  Well apparently they do for little boys.  Jacob has a habit of not just biting but chewing on the edges of his nail bed. he has no fingernails left to nibble.

Well Saturday night at bath time I noticed it looked red and a little puffy around the side of his thumb nail. Sunday morning it was raised and had some white in the middle. By Sunday night you could tell it was infected. This morning (Monday) it looked bad. but nothing compared to lunch time when I picked him up from school for his doctors apt:

Yes it hurts, its infected bad

The doctor we got had a brain fluff our something. He came in the door saying he had his needle ready was Jacob ready? Uhm hello he is a little boy who is already scared this doctor is going to hurt him. He knows all about needles mostly from the dentist who shoves a big one into his mouth every time he goes. and unfortunately he has to go ALOT. Genetics.  Dumb Doctor. He says oh I am just kidding be a big boy and don’t cry. WHOA my mommy stuff just jumps right up and says STOP.  I got mad in 2.3 nano seconds and right lately I cant control my temper. Doctor saw this and didn’t say another thing about big boys not crying. If your scared you cry, if your hurt you cry, if your mad enough to cry then you cry.

Anyway  he then says out loud and to my already scared and crying son that he needs to pop it and drain it, with a needle. But oh it won’t hurt at all….. no need to cry it won’t hurt….  So I try to get Jacob calmed down, telling him it won’t hurt I even get him to let me touch the blistered part so he can see it won’t hurt. He is ok He is not happy but ok, Doctor comes in and tells Jacob to go ahead and close his eyes, I put my hand over his eyes (Jacobs idea) cause I am holding him, and doctor proceeds to pop the infected area with a huge needle ( I was looking ) and of course it squirts all over me and completely misses the doctor, where is the justice in that?!?!?!

There is fluid in it, but you can see the puss at the "bottom" yuck

So Jacob is ok with this, it didn’t hurt at all to pop it, but then that lovely doctor who insisted that it would not hurt, who had me telling Jacob it would not hurt that doctor with out a warning or anything starts to SQUEEZE out the rest of the poison. HELLO!!!!!   IT HURTS!!!! ARGH he lied. he knew he was going to have to squeeze it did he just apply pressure? no he mashed it from one end sliding to the other to force out the poison. Why would he tell my son it wouldn’t hurt if he was going to hurt him? Ugh made me lie to him to. Ok so he didn’t MAKE me but still….

Jacob is ok now. He really doesn’;t like doctors much though. I also told him he would get amoxicillin and the doctor gave him Augmentin instead. That stuff is gross, makes Jacob gag. So He got a new toy (some cheap gun) and ice cream and chocolate milk. I hate lieing to him and I hate hurting him. But his finger should get better. He has to take the antibiotics, use neosporin and if it swells up again we go back. I will just make sure a different doctor is there when we go back.

First Day Of School

Today is that dreaded day of days. Children look forward to seeing their friends but not to getting up so early, parents look forward to peace & quiet but not the blaring of that alarm clock. You save on your groceries but spend more on your gas. Today is the first day of school.

All three children have uniforms this year, something new to them. All three on their own with out my help or input, wore the same colors lol. Khaki shorts or pants with a red shirt. I have a picture on my camera I will share it later, they all look good and proper.

Christopher got his schedule as he got to school, they had had a mix up at open house. He is happy he got the classes and teachers he was hoping for. Honors Science and Advanced History. The Science teacher is very hands on, he doesn’t like paperwork. Which is good cuz neither does Christopher. He told the students they would take a computer apart and put it back together. I am not so sure about advanced history but…..

Caitlin who told me again and again she was not tucking in her shirt, they could send her home… well before she went int eh front door they made her tuck her shirt in lol….. poor baby. So do I get to say I told you so yet? She spent 45 minutes on her hair this morning, now she got it cut short and she straightened it so why it took 45 minutes I don’t know…

Jacob had a melt down at his school. well that is a little over stated. He didn’t want me to leave and he didn’t want to stay. I had to walk away from him while the teacher held his hand and tears streamed down his cheeks. Now if that doesn’t just break your heart you have never had to do it. But I won’t be doing that again. After school we have to go to the doctors office, I noticed a fine rash on his tummy last night after his bath… he has no fever at all but it sure looks like a strep rash…

Tomorrow I start a full time job and I won’t be able to take or pick him up anymore. I won’t be home when he gets off the bus, and 2 nights out of the week I won’t be there when he goes to bed. Pray for us, I am unsure of being able to handle this. So much change… but so far it is an ok first day of school , no surprises.