Dog Bite

Jakob got bit by our neighbors dog (Gordon B Hinckley Gordy for short )yesterday. I am not kidding that is really the dogs name. Anyway back to the bite. My neighbors grand kids are visiting her this week and she had called and asked if our kids would come down and play. When the boys got to her house her dogs were tied up in her front yard and barking, so Jake bent down to try to calm the dog down and it bit him. My neighbor was really upset about the whole thing and called me like 4 times yesterday to make sure Jake was OK. She also had to make sure that I knew the dog was current on all of it's shots and if I wanted to report it that she was alright with it. I wasn't worried about it because it didn't seem that bad.
I guess the kid that lives next door likes to throw rocks at the dog and point his toy guns at it, and he just happened to ride up on his bike just as Jake bent down to pet the dog. I am sure that was why the dog bit him.
Today when Joe looked at the bite he thought that it looked infected, so off to the doctor's office we went. We didn't see our regular doctor, and the doctor we did see had the rudest nurse that I have ever encountered at a pediatricians office. I don't know if she was having a bad day, or was mad that I didn't want to report the bite or what but she was down right rude! first she told Jake to get up on the exam table, and instead of him using the step stool, he tried to use the rolling stool that the doctor sits on and sent it rolling off , she said to him "use the step stool for crying out loud." Then she sets a bowl of water next to Jakob and tells him to put his hand in it,and starts to walk out of the room, and Jake says "what hand?" which was a dumb thing to ask I know but he is only 11, so I tell him the hand that has the bite. The I said "that was rude of her to say." When she walks back in the room she looks at him and says "which hand? are you serious." I could have decked her right then. How dare she talk to a child that way! After that she was a little nicer but not much. I did tell them at the front desk when we were checking out that she wasn't my favorite nurse, but I guess I should have explained why because the more I think about it the more angry I get.
He did end having to get a tetanus shot and is on an antibiotic 2 times a day for the next 10 days.

I would post a picture, but it looks too gross and I might throw up if I have to look at it long enough to take a picture!

I thought I would add to this post. After I typed this all up I decided to call the doctor's office and complain about the nurse, because the more I thought about it the angrier it was making me. I don't know if it helped but it did make me feel better.