Rude Awakening...

Yesterday evening my son started complaining about his left pointer finger hurting. Looking at it at first, it seemed okay. It was a little swollen and red around the cuticle area and I thought that maybe he just had a splinter. Well, this definitely was not the case! Near 6:00 a.m. this morning, he came running into our bedroom crying he couldn't sleep and that his finger was beeping (meant that it was throbbing/pulsating). When I looked at it, the whole tip of his finger was swollen, red, puffy, and the nail bed looked whitish. It was hard from so much pressure because it had become infected. I had planned a field trip for my daycare/preschool kids to go to see horses at one of my school agers papa's house. Garron had an appointment at the doctor to have his finger seen about but he opted to go on the field trip with us even though his finger was hurting. All the kids had a great time feeding apples to the horses, petting the horses, running around, eating a picnic lunch, and riding a horse named Sassy. Garron was fine for a little while until his finger started beeping again and then he was ready to go. He started crying again and kept telling me his finger was hurting. So we loaded up all the kids and headed back home. On the way home though, Garron says, "Mama, look at my finger. What's it doing? It's leaking." It had built up so much pressure that it burst on it's own and started relieving some of the pressure. He said that it started to feel better and that it started tickling. When we got home, I canceled the doctor's appointment with his primary physician because it was at 2:15 p.m. He couldn't wait any longer. He was ready for his finger to be taken care of so his Daddy took him to a place called Urgent Care. He was seen immediately. They squeezed his finger some more to get much of the puss out. I will have to squeeze the puss out for another three days as much as possible. He is also on antibiotics for ten days. I hope that maybe he will be able to get some sleep tonight now that his finger has stopped beeping. I know this article may have been a bit grotesque but these things do happen. I don't know what caused him to get an infection in his finger but I hope it doesn't happen again.