Hook in the Hand

Last night my brother Allan had Justin and Trevor over to spend the night. They got up this morning at 6 a.m. to go fishing. Before we dropped them off, Kent explained the need to be careful with the hooks because of the barbs. The boys seemed to understand, so we left them and came home. I couldn't sleep last night so when I finally did get to sleep Kent let me sleep in and answered the door when they got here. I woke up about 2 hours later. I went in to see the boys and ask if they had a good time. They said that they did, Justin caught a fish, and Trevor had fun but instead of a fish he caught a hook in the hand. Ouch! He told Kent, but Kent wasn't feeling worried about it I guess, because he didn't say anything to me. Anyway, because it had been in the water I took him to Urgent Care to have it removed. Here's Trevor's hand before we went to Urgent Care.

Trevor was really brave and didn't cry at all until the doctor injected his hand with lidocaine. I think every single person in the whole building heard him screaming. I held his arm down with both hands, and the doctor held his hand steady with one hand while injecting it with the other hand.
Here's a photo of his hand after it got injected with the lido.
The doctor let his hand numb up for a few minutes, then came in and cut the hook. Then he had to push it out through a new hole to get it out. It took several minutes, and I was worried that he was going to have to cut a hole with a scalpel and that Trevor would have to get stitches. It finally broke through the skin and he was able to pull the hook out. Now Trevor has 2 little puncture holes. He has to have antibiotics for a week to kill off any infection because the hook had already been in the lake. He just needs to keep a bandage on it until it scabs over, but he's good to go. He's at a birthday party now, and I'm sure the story's gotten better with each telling of it.