A few days ago Grace hurt her foot somehow at school. It looked like she had stood on something, and that there was possibly a splinter in there. The next day Donné had a closer look and some muck came out of the wound which appeared to dislodge whatever was there. Grace continued to walk with her foot raised, and the wound hasn’t really been healing properly, but Grace has been super sensitive about touching the foot and letting us see what is going on.

With no progress, today we had to have a proper look, which meant breaking the skin (on a super sensitive foot, on a super sensitive little girl, who was also not feeling very well today).

Donné held Grace is a hug bear hold, I fought with the crazy kicking foot. Grace was traumatised to be held down and put through some pain while I broke the skin and checked for foreign objects. Donné and I were traumatised by her crying, screaming and shouting, “Let go of me! I don’t want you to look at it!” Eli also decided to join in the crying to encourage us to work faster.

Fortunately, after a lot of kicking and screaming, I did manage to find a shard of glass in her foot. With that out hopefully it will start to heal up properly. Luckily she calmed quickly afterwards. I think that piece of glass was poking her every time there was any touch or pressure around it (I know that feeling), and with it out the discomfort was alleviated.

We are all okay.

Noshing some breakfast toast at the counter