Ooohhh... Pain Pain

"Ooohhh, pain pain" was what Rachel said to me few hours ago while waving her right hand. I took a look at her hand and spotted a tiny black line in her middle finger and dismissed it as a pen ink mark. Before that, she was playing with a pen and came to me twice with 'ink-ful' hands. She loves to wash her hands so I suspect that she does it purposely (sometimes) so that she can wash them.

However, she continued to stand in front of me, looking at her right hand and mumbling "pain" while Shawn & I were watching 'Ai' aka Love - a super long Taiwan drama (to clarify, I'm not the fan, Shawn is. Ha). So I had a second look and thought that it looked like a dried up blood stain (she hurt her right hand recently). I then kissed her cute little finger and told her that it will heal soon.

But my determined girl kept saying "pain pain". Hmmm... something must be wrong. So I got Shawn (who has eagle eyes) to 'diagnose' her problem and he found the black line to be a splinter!

We then got a touch light and nail clipper, intending to take it out but Rachel wouldnt allow. Which kid would? We then waited for her to knock out after her night feed to start the mini 'op'. After 5 long mins with the nail clipper, the splinter was still buried in the skin. Its no wonder because Shawn merely used the clipper to touch his precious daughter's finger. We were worried that we will cause more hurt. What to do? I then got a thick sewing needle and took over. Slowly, I managed to expose 1 end of the splinter. Yeah! I continued to dig, dig and dig (it was not as scary as it sound :P) and finally, I got it out! attached with tiny bit of skin. Opps. But no bleeding and her finger still looked so cute and perfect. Phew.

For all these trouble, I reckon its worth getting the splinter scotch-taped and dated. I know I know, parents usually keep first tooth, first hair... but why not a first splinter? After all, I have a big treasure chest to safe keep them all. :)

length: est 1 mm