The drama of Hannah's toe

I have been trying to think how was I going to write this without making anyone sick, but there is no way around it. I took pictures along the way and it's only right that I allow y'all to see to get the same feeling I got, you can thank me after for losing your lunch...

We were walking over to the pool, when we had to stop at the gate to let the kids unlock it, Hannah wasn't paying attention and walked into me and her toe hit the back of my foot and all we hear is a crunch. I look back to see what it was and Hannah is bent over and Brandon is jumping back because he saw it first. Her toe nail...

(this is after we washed it off and tried to put it back in place)


here's a different angle


After talking with mom she told us to rip it off, but it was too much for Hannah. We called Keith to ask what his opinion was and he said we had to leave it on so there would be a chance for the nail to grow back. Leaving it on was painful for Hannah so we took her to the ER.

Once we get back to the nurse she looks at it and says OMG you must be in some serious pain, Hannah just laughs and says yeah. They give her some pain meds and we wait for the doctor. They said that she must of just hit it just right becasue it was a one in a million chance of ripping it that way.

The doctor comes in and they take her to x-rays, because they thought she must of hit it with a hard enough force that she may have actually fractured her toe. I call Brandon and we decided that is just the hospital trying to make some money. In the end it wasn't and they have to give Hannah a shot in her toe to numb it and then they cut the nail and push it back into her toe and glue it down. Hannah is balling throughout this process and I'm just watching rubbing Hannah's head telling her it will be okay, but amazed at how they are doing this. Here is what the doctor did...




Hannah is told that she has to stay out of water for 2 weeks (which the amount of time she has left here in San Diego) and we wanted to go to the water park and we had been swimming almost everyday. There goes our plans!

After a few days Gavin accidentally stepped on her toe and it was hurting more than ever, so Hannah had me take a look. This is the day after we had gone back for a follow up where they did absolutely nothing, not even touch her toe! (wonder how much that bill will be) The glue was starting to lift and it had left her skin in a mess! I have pictures of all this but Hannah asked that I don't show becasue she want to save the dignity of her toe! ;)

We pick off some of the glue to relive the pressure and by the next day Hannah had picked off all the glue which made the toe nail come back off. It was just hanging there like a horrible hang nail and after a few tries she managed to rip it off, which relieved all the pain. Now she has a stub with a thin layer of nail left. Wouldn't it suck if it never grows back! A teenager with no toe nail, poor Hannah!