Nick Arnett wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Behalf Of Julia Thompson
>
> ...
>
> > Then sometime between 1:30 and 2, Sammy tripped and hit his
> > forehead on the
> > box his alphabet blocks live in, and it cut him. Deep. About
> > half an inch
> > long.
>
> Ouch. Not a place you'll want him to have a scar, so make sure that if it
> needs to be properly closed, you get that done in a timely manner... but I'm
> not sure what would be timely. Got butterfly closures in the meantime?
Nope. In theory, you can make one out of a small band-aid, but in practice,
one end would have been anchored in his eye, so I just cut some adhesive
tape to about 2mm width and used that to close it.
> > I held Sammy while Dan washed the wound with gauze pads dipped in
> > the dilute
> > hydrogen peroxide, held Sammy while Dan flushed out the eye he'd
> > accidentally dribbled some into with saline solution,
>
> Yipes -- peroxide in the eye? I did that once by accident with contact
> lenses and had blurry vision for a day or two. Hurt like the dickens, so
> much that it was hard to open my eye enough to get the lens out. And it was
> as I was getting ready for Heidi Roizen's wedding reception (Heidi of
> T/Maker and Apple), so I was the squinty guy who seemed to be half-crying
> the whole time. I'm guessing it wasn't quite so back for Sammy?
It was diluted, and we went after it with saline rather aggressively, and he
was crying to begin with, so there was plenty of natural saline solution in
his eye to begin with to help flush it out.
It wasn't the highlight of his afternoon, certainly.
> > (And we're going to have to try to get him to the doctor's office tomorrow
> > morning to get it checked out anyway, and given the freezing drizzle
> > advisory that we're under through 10PM, I don't know how easy
> > *that's* going
> > to be.)
>
> There, a prayer for all of you...
Thank you.
Dan brought Sammy down for his dinner, and once I'd taken over, literally
dragged himself upstairs. I'm thinking I'm probably going to have to fix
Dan's dinner and take it up, and do all the dealing-with-the-dogs things for
the rest of the evening.
It's really no fun to be the least-sick adult in a house where everyone's
sick.
Julia
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