Thursday, November 13, 2008

Tough as nails- (or should I say Needles...)

Kolt had surgery on his foot today to get out a needle that he had stepped on. He stepped on it about 3 years ago and he had surgery then but they could not get it out. We had a second opinion from a different Dr. and he said to wait until it started to bother him and so that's what we did...So here we are three years later...Kolt kept telling us his foot was hurting again- I took a look at it and sure enough the needle had worked it's way to the top of his foot. I could see a red spot on his foot where it was trying to exit-When we went to the Dr.(The 3rd one) and got new x-rays they show that the needle has actually broke into 2 pieces. One was on the top of his foot by his toes and the other one is on the bottom of his foot and stuck in the muscle- The Dr. said it would probably do more harm than good to go after the piece on the bottom of his foot. Today they were able to get the piece out by his toes so it will stop hurting him and hopefully we will be done for a while..Having all "BOYS" there is never a dull moment or needle apparently!