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Doctors and dolls

January 20th, 2007 10 comments

Well, the day took a bit of a turn, and hopefully anyone whose hat or kit was supposed to go out today will understand the shipping delay. The hubby had an infected hangnail a couple of days ago that turned into paronychia, and it got worse. And worse. He finally made a doctor’s appointment yesterday for Monday (quite an admission of pain for him), but by last night the infection was progressing so quickly that he was in agony and clearly couldn’t make it that long. After consulting our insurance’s nurse hotline (wanted to be covered in case there were questions later) we decided to go to an urgent care facility today. My mom watched Emily since we didn’t know how long we’d be. (Thanks, Mom!)

By this morning, the hubby’s finger looked positively medieval, like something described in a historical medical document, right between “boils” and “buboes.” He had it seen to, and says that that process was the worst pain he’s ever experienced. The doctor did admit that his finger looked pretty far gone. The hubby said that had he known ahead of time it was going to be that bad, he would have asked to be knocked out. He had the good grace to volunteer that it wasn’t like bearing our child, but was still awful. Having seen it, I believe him.

With the pain relieved, he took great delight in showing it to me, with the other fingers folded down of course. As he says, “I’m Italian! I need this finger!” His mother chimes in with “You live in Charlotte, you’ll need that finger to drive.” After dropping him off at home, I picked our daughter up and we ran bunches of errands that were just as much about keeping her away from him and his poor beleaguered finger as they were about getting things we needed. While out, we picked up the Nightlife expansion pack for Sims 2 so that she’d have a computer game to keep her occupied. She really didn’t need it, but I didn’t want her diving into Daddy’s arms, and having a new toy which had to be played in another room worked out just fine.


Speaking of new toys, you may recall that my daughter asked me to knit her a Bratz doll a while back, which, NO. In my personal opinion, those dolls are too made up, too scantily dressed, and too adult for her. I did offer to knit her a doll, although it wouldn’t be a Bratz doll. She was totally on board. She decided it should have black hair and blue eyes, and a red shirt and green skirt. So that’s what I’m making for her. This is based on a pattern in Tracy Chapman’s “Toys to Knit.”


Emily saw the individual pieces yesterday and got very excited, running to her table to get her crayons. Here’s her artist’s rendering of what the finished product will look like.

I make no promises, but I’ll do my best!

And now, to bed. We have to visit the doctor again tomorrow morning. Whee!

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