This past week we went to Jordanelle Reservoir to go camping and boating with our great friends the Rumfields. (watch for the great post on that trip, with some fabulous pictures). Emily and some of the kids were fishing. I told Audrey to have them move to another spot away from the grass that was coming up from the water. The kids' fishing hooks kept getting caught. Anyhow, the kids moved places to where there were more rocks at the waters edge. While we were getting ready to go out on the boat I hear someone yell something about a fish. I thought the kids had caught one. Well, here comes Kevin over to the picnic table carrying a crying Emily. Apparently as she was walking through the grass, a fishing hook....that some idiot left behind on some fishing wire.....got caught in her calf. Here is a lovely picture.
It was quite traumatic for her. When it happened she had asked Audrey to get it out of her leg. Audrey gave it a slight tug and knew it was not going anywhere. That is when Kevin was called. Upon examining it, Dave (who has been an EMT and is now a highway patrol guy) and Kevin figured they would have to poke it out through her skin, cut the barb and pull it back through. PAIN!!!!!!! Dave asked if Em was up on her immunization, and namely the tetanus shot. I said she is 8 and she should be.....well the decision was made to go to Park City. We found on Kevin's handy dandy GPS an Urgent Care Center. The doctor gave her a skin numbing solution and then a few shots of lidocaine and then proceeded to poke the fishing hook through her skin. Kevin said he had a hard time getting it to poke through, but when all was said and done, we had a happy camper who was ready to go boating. We were only gone an hour and a half. The doc said Em had her shot when going into kindergarten so she was fine that was. Sure, Kevin and Dave could have done it all themselves.....but paying a $35 co-pay was so much better than a little girl screaming from pain and being traumatized the rest of her life! I am not even sure what the moral of this story is.....except maybe look for stray fishing hooks????
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