They'll chop your toe off!
About a month ago, Mark was clipping his toenails, and he always clips them too short, and this time was no different except he clipped off a huge chunk of skin.
So I cleaned it all out and bandaged it really well with some staphaseptic.
I told him to A) leave it alone, and B) keep it clean and bandaged until it heals.
Well just like most kids, he kept picking it at it.
His excuse was that it was itchy, so removing the scab made the itch go away.
It's been a whole month and that damn thing still isn't healed.
I thought it was, that last time I yelled at him to leave it alone was about 2 weeks ago, and every time I asked how it was doing, he said it was fine.
Liar.
He's been picking at it non-stop and it looks absolutely disgusting!
so I cleaned it all out again, more staphaseptic, and this time, I secured the gauze bandaged to his toe with 3 wrap-arounds of duct tape, and then smacked him on the back of his calf when I was done.
I told him if he removes that to pick at it, I'll smack him again, this time only harder.
When he takes a shower he can take it off, and then I'm bandaging it again.
He seems to think this is some kind of joke, but it's been a whole month of this and if it gets any worse, they'll have to chop his damn toe off for either a MRSA infection or gangrene.
He laughed at me, but dead tissue is dead tissue, and they'll take his toe if they have to.
Why do kids have to do stupid stuff like this?
Why can't they just leave their scabs alone?
It would serve him right at this point to get his toe lobbed off.
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Brat gurl does the same damn thing and every time I end up having to take her to the doctors to get it taken care of. We finally ended up hiding the nail clippers, if she wants them she has to use them in front of us and either her father or I do her big toes. I know, she's more than old enough, but I'm tired of hearing her whine about how much it hurts...LOL
Posted by: Holly | June 22, 2008 3:11 AM