Bleak House

We have definitely had better days at the Batchelor Pad. 

My tailbone hurts a little worse each day, so today I finally went to the doctor and had some x-rays. The results were inconclusive and I'll have to wait to hear back from the radiologist. Apparently, since the coccyx is made up of several small bones, they couldn't tell if the bone was broken or if the line they saw was just between some of the bones. Either way, it's a six to eight week recovery. And I'm already sick of it hurting.

After the doctor, we went to Publix to get my pain medication. While there, I ran over Jalen with the grocery cart (he was laying on the bottom shelf - after I had already told him to get out of there once). It cut open his finger. I skipped out on the meds and took Jalen to Doctor's Choice only to find out they didn't have a doctor there so we continued on to the emergency room.

I explained to several people that his nail was completely ripped off as well as some of the tissue below and beneath it. The top of the finger was folded all the way back.

This picture doesn't even come close to showing the damage.

After three hours and some x-rays, the doctor told me that his finger wasn't broken. He put a bandaid on it and said that we should just keep it bandaged and to put some hydrogen peroxide on it in a couple of days. Really? Holy waste of time! Then he said that in the x-ray he noticed an air bubble under the other side of the nail so it looked like the nail was torn on both sides. Are you kidding me!! Did no one listen to me when I said it was completely torn off and that the finger was sliced open? Did they think I would spend three hours just for a torn nail? Now I'm just hoping that it will actually heal. We didn't get out of there until almost 9 o'clock.

I have to take Jalen to the doctor soon for a wart on his foot, so I guess I'll do that later this week so we can get in to his pediatrician and have her check on the finger as well.

All in all, it could have been worse. But dang my butt hurts!!