Life with...a teenager
We Mellmanns enjoy a good adventure, a little thrill now and then, and some good ol' excitement, but life with a teenager (boy no less) is keeping this mom hopping. Last week, as we were wrapping up the last day of school before winter break (which is this week), Patrick slammed his finger in a door at school. Over the next couple of days, he developed this nice bruise under his nail. We started to speculate on what would happen (lose the nail or not), but figured the best course of action was going to be to let nature takes its course and let the body do the healing. We would later learn that this type of injury is what medical professionals refer to as a "crush injury", and the resulting nail color is called "subungual hematoma". As the weekend progressed and the bruise continued to develop, so did the pressure, swelling, and pain. By Sunday words like "doctor", "drain", and "don't wait" were being used. So, first ...