Gem all bandaged up and me covered in puke and feeling sad she’ll have a short toe with no toe nail.
This past Sunday we (Susan, Gem, and I) went out to my parents house to eat with the family and celebrate my 28TH birthday (it’s today BTW). Long story short Gem was down stairs with all the cousins playing and got on grandma’s exercise equipment (rowing machine) and pinched off the tip of her middle toe. Our niece that was playing with Gem brought her up stairs and said she had pinched her toe so I proceeded to remove Gem’s tights thinking I’ll see a scratch or blood-blister, but instead I was horrified to see the tip of my daughter’s toe bone sticking out. From there it was off to the ERI’ve never had to go the ER before, and to my surprise it wasn’t quite like the TV show. I parked the car and when I came in I thought my daughter would be on a table and her toe being fixed, but instead they had my wife filling out forms and signing papers. I just kept thinking “my daughter’s toe has been cut off and is screaming non-stop could we fix her up then fill these out?”, but then we waited for about 20–30 minutes before anyone even took a look at her toe. By the time Gem finally got any kind of pain relief we had been in the ER for probably 2 or more hours. Anyway, the long and short of it is the plastic surgeon reattached the tip of her toe then cast her whole leg to about her mid thigh (the cast is to immobilize the toe while it tries to reattach). We finally got home about 11PM.I’m grateful we have insurance, but the whole time we were there I kept thinking about the Michael Moore movie Sicko and wondering if the system could be better (and more affordable). I think the only positive thing out of this was I finally got to drive the way I’ve always wanted to (like a bat out of hell). I’ll be sure to post an update when we find out more about poor Gem’s toe in 3 weeks when we get her cast off.
