Emergency Room Visits and Fish

My oldest girl and my youngest girl were running in the house, barefoot, as usual. Only this time they decided to make it more interesting and according to the girls, she kicked the wall. That is their story and they are sticking to it. In the process, she removed the top part of one toe (partially) causing extreme pain and lots of blood (little droplets through the living room, the kitchen, the hallway,
and the family room). I contacted her doctor and was advised to head to the ER for x-rays and probably a few stitches. At the hospital, they gave her a wrist bracelet and her father (who was called home from work to carry the child) had to wear a name tags.


The doctor and nurse said that I did a good job. (All those years of First Aid finally paid off). It seems adding medicine (Neosporin) and propping her foot and covering with gauze with pressure, stopped the bleeding and the toe was not broken. Now we get to keep covered with medicine for the next few days and she needs to see her doctor at some point (we already had that appointment) and we need to watch for infection and nail falling off.

Last night, when I was feeding the algae eater (in our 10 gallon fish tank) along with the other fish, I noticed how large this thing is. I am thinking we are going to have to do something about him. He is getting too big for the small tank and he seems to terrorize one of the other fish.