I ran to the gate yesterday…and found my friend Juataz in a frantic state of mind with her arms wrapped around her little boy. Tears streamed down her cheeks as she told me he had drank clorox when she wasn’t looking. After much coaxing and bribing we got a whole cup of charcoal water into his little belly. I was covered in charcoal…HE was covered in charcoal, and everything anywhere near us was splatttered and blotched with charcoal. But after I scrubbed him off and gave him some sweet juice he was runnning around happy again…with a very rumbly, black-stained, tummy I’m sure!
…And I’ll add one of my new bandage patients this week. It’s not too easy to hold down a kicking, screaming, 4 yr. old while trying to sterile pack her neck abscess. Poor little dear!
Mis Katie