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Tuesday 26th May 2009 22:23:48
Back to work, back to the doctor's
So yes . . . today I was back to work, the two week holiday over. The boys were playing up, messing about, so M**** took them to the shops, hoping to buy the ingredients for fairy cakes (or whatever they're called). On the way there, A****** somehow managed to trip over R******'s push-chair, falling onto the pavement, grazing his left elbow and getting a tiny little stone lodged into his arm in the process. Nice. I popped back to try to tweezer the thing out but A****** was making too much of a fuss. I dunno whether you can just leave these things in and let nature do its work or what . . . M**** rang the doctor's surgery for advice and they just told her to bring A****** in at 17:30. With the area suitably numbed via some magical local anaesthetic lotion, the doctor managed to pull the stone out, although it was quite deeply embedded and took a bit of a poke around to get out. But A****** didn't put up too much of a fuss, bless him.

Comments received:

  • Name: Rosie
  • IP address: 91.107.194.151
  • Date/time: Saturday 30th May 2009 19:36:17
  • Comment: we docs come in useful sometimes :-) sorry we didnt get to see you in the lakes. lets arrange another weekendy visit as the last one was so fun - we're going to lancs anyway in july.. you around?
  • Name: Former Line Manager
  • IP address: 86.154.138.168
  • Date/time: Thursday 4th June 2009 18:05:35
  • Comment: We took Ollie to the doctors when we thought he had a stone lodged in his forehead and were told not to worry. A few days later, it was inflamed and he scratched at it. When he got the top off, the pressure that had built up forced the stone out on a column of puss. So sometimes doctors aren't great but these things do come out on their own.
  • Name: jonath
  • IP address: 192.168.0.1
  • Date/time: Tuesday 9th June 2009 22:49:00
  • Comment: 'forced the stone out on a column of puss' . . . I think there's something poetic about that. I think next time this stone-lodging-in-skin thing happens again, I'm definitely leaving it there in anticipation of a column of puss. Heck, maybe I should fall over more on pavements.

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