Something, always.

Yesterday, K (4) got her toe smashed under a door. Sigh. It was very painful and the injury looked deep.

I called the doctor's office as soon as it happened. Note: I learned that I should not call the doctor's office when an injury is received, but go straight to the Urgent Care Clinic because the doctor at the doctor's office will only look at the injury and say, "Oh, you need to go to urgent care. She needs stitches and we don't do them here."

The doctor will do this after you waited for the appointment time (3 hours). It will annoy you! The doctor's office will collect your co-pay and then the Urgent Care place will too. Again, you will be annoyed! And, time will have been wasted! (The injury happened at 11:30, the doctor visit was 2:30, we arrived at Urgent Care at 3:10-ish* and we got home out of Urgent Care at 3:40. It took a long time. It would have been even longer if we'd needed stitches.)

(I thought I was doing the right thing because the injury wasn't that bad. I thought it was good not to go straight to Urgent Care when someone else might have something more urgent than K. I was wrong!)

(You may not want to read more if you don't like medical talk.)
K didn't need stitches in her toe, even though the cut was deep. I also learned that if the cut is deep, but not gaping, and not on the face, then they probably won't do stitches. At least that's what this doctor told me. Medicine is a practice and everyone practices differently so another doctor might have a different opinion. The nurse, who looked at the injury, said she didn't think the wound needed stitches because there wasn't anything to stitch the skin to--the door had scrapped off all the skin on side of the wound (as the door had opened).

This morning, K is running around looking fine! She has a band-aid, but that's all you can tell. (Oh and she can't go swimming for a week.)



*If you ever have to go to Urgent Care on a Friday... Try to get there as early in the afternoon as you can. Many people wait until right after work to go and then it's a LONG wait!