Aurora's Blog

Let me start by saying that I wasn't planning on a blog entry today because I didn't do anything at all worthy of writing about.

Then we went fishing...

The kids were bouncing off the walls this evening, so I decided I would take them fishing at the river. Now that's a few blocks away so we rode bikes, with me carrying the fishing poles and tackle box along with riding my bike. Had an enjoyable time not catching anything, and watching a pair of what I believe to be Kestrels flying around (makes me wish I had brought the camera too).

The trouble began on the ride home. Megan is not so good at riding her bike in a straight line. I am still getting used to my new bike, which is a little tall for me. Plus I was also carrying all the fishing gear. Right after we got across the only dangerous intersection Megan drifted toward me. In so doing she ran into the fishing poles that I was holding across the handlebars. Yep, you guessed it, she got a hook embedded into the underside of her arm right above the elbow.

We are in the middle of the road just on the other side of the intersection, she's screaming bloody murder, and I'm whipped around because I just caught my daughter! I stood in the middle of the road for about 2 mins trying to get the hook out of her arm- no luck as it was one of the new hooks that I had NOT de-barbed yet. I try calling steve who was 2 blocks away at a meeting and of course he doesn't pick up his phone. Right then a nice neighbor came over to see what was wrong and helped me get the bikes, children, and fishing gear to the front yard (which was only 25 yards away). Got everyone into the car to get to the ER (actually Patient's First, which is sort of like an ER for those without life-threatening injuries). Stop at the meeting to run in and get Steve and off we went. I am sure we are the talk of the neighborhood tonight after the way I ran in telling him that Megan has a fishook embedded in her arm and we have to go LOL

Poor Meg- she's going through all of this with a fish hook attached to a large yellow lure with jangly things attached to that embedded in her arm. Every single nurse just had to come take a look at her. The doctor was wonderful, she numbed up her arm, removed the jangly thing and cut off the lure. Then used a pair of Craftsman pliers and wire cutters to remove the hook. Cleaned the whole thing really well with Betadine and hydrogen peroxide and put a giant Band-Aide on.  She also faxed the prescription for antibiotics ahead too (considering that the hook was in the Elizabeth River that's a good thing) Said it was her 10th hook in the past month.

After that whole ordeal it was off to Sonic for the kids to get some much deserved milkshakes and me dinner (it was 9:30 at this point. Finally pick up the antibiotics after having to endure 2 bridgelifts (another story) and here I am writing the story of the evening I caught my Megan :)