Wednesday, September 21, 2011

7 stitches at 7 months

So about a month ago I was attempting to take a heavy mirror out of it's frame so I could use the frame for something else. I successfully got it out of the frame,  and laid it on the carpet, but about an hour later I thought I'd get it all cleaned up for when Teague got home from school. When I went to pick up the mirror to move it, it slipped out of my hands and landed right on the top of my foot!
There was a ton of blood immediately, so I called Teague (he says I called him screaming!! haha. I don't think I was really screaming tho...just crying ;)) and told him what had happened and he hurried home. We ended up at urgent care where I had to get 7 stitches. I thought the worst part would be the stitches but my foot was too sore to walk on for about a week, so I looked like a disabled pregnant lady hobbling around at work and wherever else I had to be.
No fun! Now all of the scabbing is finally gone and I'm left with kind of an ugly scar, but it's not thick, so I have hope that it'll fade. (I'm religiously using Mederma everyday, in hopes that it'll help fade it).
Here are pictures of the progression...don't look if you get queasy at the sight of blood!!!!

This is what my foot looked like by the time we made it to urgent care (the whole bottom of my foot was absolutely covered in blood...and yes, I used a target bag as a tourniquet! Lol...I was closest to the kitchen when it happened and I didn't want to track blood all thru the house on the carpet. For future reference, it worked amazing! haha.

Here's how it looked after we soaked it and scrubbed the blood off in order to get ready for stitches. Pretty nasty gash...and if you're thinking it looks like Harry Potter's scar, you're not the first. :) 

And the stitches...the doctor made me nervous because you could tell he hasn't done that many stitches and honestly he didn't do the best job, but he was really nice and the stitches did the job I suppose. 

And this is what it looks like now...much better. I'm just glad it's finally healed and closed up so I can go float my huge pregnant body in the cool pool and so I can get my before birth pedicure! :) Silly I know!

6 comments:

♥Mommy Of 2♥ said...

Oh, you have officially made me want to faint! I am so sorry for you!!! Hope you are doing better!

Seth + Carlie said...

Wow! That looks like it hurt! I do like the blue toes though!

A said...

Oh dear!! I had NO IDEA!! That looks like a traumatic experience! Enjoy the pool floating and birth pedicure! :)

Ben and Raquel said...

that's nuts jakelle! looks crazy painful! hope it feels much better by the time you get your pedicure :)

Nick & Dana said...

oh my goodness! yeah, i couldn't really look at the pictures but from my glance it looks horrible :( let me know if that mederma works i've been dying to try it!!

Harrington said...

That is terrible. Glad your okay. Very scary!