suzmob
03-11-2006, 04:06 PM
So here it is only a few days till Carly's surgery. She is scheduled for Tuesday. Last week one of my co-workers came to work with a really bad cold--I made here go home because I was so paranoid in getting sick and then passing it to Carly! Yay, it was great when she went home because then I was finally in the clear. (after spraying Lysol over her work area and wiping down her desk, computer and phone with anti-bacterial wipes). Thursday evening, Carly calls me at work and tells me that as she was sitting down on the couch, a pencil must have been somehow sticking up, and she landed on the pencil which went through her jeans and into her leg. She pulled it out and said it hurt. I told her it was probably no big deal, when I got home from work she said it was still hurting alot. We washed it out and put neosporin on it. Next morning she woke up and said it still hurt. It didn't look bad, just a small black puncture wound. So she went to school. Of course at work I was worrying all day. I work for a dr. (ophthalmologist) but I asked him if I should be concerned. He said to have Carly come to the office after school and he would look at it. My mom brought her over after school. Now there was a red, quarter sized circle around the puncture wound. The dr. looked at it and said I better call her orthopedist. Orthopedist sent us to the Emergency Room so the orthopidic resident could look at it. They X-rayed it, he numbed it and dug in really deep looking for pieces of the lead. He never found anything, so he put her on a strong antibiotic just in case. We have to call the surgeon Monday morning, but she is feeling much better today, so I am hoping all is well. Just goes to show you, no matter how careful you think you are being, freak accidents can still happen!!! Keep us in your thoughts and prayers that leg continues to heal and surgery will go as planned Tues.