Lindsey gets jabbed with pencil

This picture (below) was taken today, three days after her visit to the doctor. She gets the sutures out on Thursday before school.

Look carefully for the lead colored dot on her head from the pencil before going to the doctor:

Happy new year, everyone. The family and I just got back from Colorado last night and today I took Lindsey to the doc for a little cosmetic procedure. In December, one of her classmates was intending to toss a pencil across the room to another student, and the object in motion incidentally hit Lindsey in the forehead instead. See the gray colored, permanent lead dot about an inch below her hairline on the left side of her face?

Today, Dr. Jones removed what he referred to as a pencil tattoo, by numbing her skin with a very long needle, then using a small cookie cutter type of blade, that removed a round chunk of skin, then stitched it up with two stitches. I watched the whole time as I was holding Lindsey's hand. She was very brave and it was rather nauseating to observe. Seeing the curvy needle being shoved through the flesh on my daughter's forehead, then looped through a couple times, just seemed excruciating. Thank goodness for drugs because Lindsey didn't seem to be bothered at all by the procedure.

We're glad we did this, because after talking to a number of people, the lead dot would likely be there for years. In the waiting room lobby area, a man showed us his little pencil tattoo on his hand that he'd had since kindergarten, and told us about another spot he had on his chest. When it was on her face, I felt like I wanted to be proactive and have it removed as soon as possible. Lindsey is happy that it's gone too. She didn't want me to send the bill to the boy's parents since she has to face this kid in biology each day, so I guess it can be categorized as a late Christmas present.

I'll be posting pictures from our trip soon too, by the way. Again, happy new year!