the sidlingers

It’s been a busy week and today was no exception. 

Wednesdays are karate days and so in the afternoon I pick Daniel up from school and we go directly to his karate class.  Today on the way, Daniel informed me that he had a spot on his hand.  After closer inspection I found it was a splinter.  I had no way of taking it out in the car, so I told him to leave it alone and we would deal with it after karate.  Except, today was a physical training day which meant that the kids had to run.  The mother sitting next to me commented on how she was surprised no one ever gets hurt when they do these runs, because let’s face it, 20 four and five year old boys running in a circle is probably not the best of ideas.  Not three minutes later a little boy pushed Daniel and Daniel landed on his own foot, really hard.

He usually gets right back up and brushes off, but this time he was really hurting.  We stayed for a few minutes, but every time he tried to walk back onto the floor it would hurt his foot.  We left early and came home to ice it down and keep an eye on it.  Right now it’s not hurting him unless he walks on it for a few minutes.  He is also limping a little.  If he’s still hurting or limping in the morning, I’m taking him to the doctor to have it checked out.

Because of the whole foot situation, the splinter kind of became secondary.  That is until after dinner when I remembered that I needed to get it out.  I am not kidding when I say it took me an hour.  This is only the second splinter I’ve had to remove and both time it has been the most horrible ordeal.  Daniel screams at a level that I did not know was possible and he fights every move you make and squirms around to undo any progress you might have made.  I am truly surprised that social services did not show up to find out what in the world was going on.  After giving up and telling him that we would have to go to the doctor and have them do it and him begging for just one more chance, I was able to finally able to maneuver it out.  I think tomorrow I will send him to school with gloves on so he can’t get another one.

To top it all off there is a case of "allergies" going around his class.  I’ve never known allergies to produce the amount of snot and coughing and fever some of the kids have had, but their parents swear it’s not a cold!  Daniel doesn’t have the "allergies" yet, but is starting to get a little stuffy.  Hopefully his really are just allergies.