Normally I don't start so many threads, but here's a question: has anyone had this happen (read on)?
My daughter (3 1/2 years old) was crying downstairs, so I went to investigate. She says, "I'm okay, Mommy," between sobs, so when I finally get her to tell me what happened, she said, "I was picking at my fingernail, and the whole thing came off!" I'm thinking that she's using her very active and always-in-use imagination until I look at her finger, and sure enough, her WHOLE pinky fingernail is gone. I find the fingernail (while on the phone with the phone nurse), and it has broken off well beneath the nail bed where it comes out from under the skin.
Now my daughter is not writhing in pain (like I would be). She's just watching tv like nothing is wrong. Anyone know of any reason that a whole nail would comes off/break like that? It's not bleeding, just seeping a clear fluid. The phone nurse wanted to check with her doctor, and that was quite a while ago. I still haven't heard back. It's just so weird...
My daughter (3 1/2 years old) was crying downstairs, so I went to investigate. She says, "I'm okay, Mommy," between sobs, so when I finally get her to tell me what happened, she said, "I was picking at my fingernail, and the whole thing came off!" I'm thinking that she's using her very active and always-in-use imagination until I look at her finger, and sure enough, her WHOLE pinky fingernail is gone. I find the fingernail (while on the phone with the phone nurse), and it has broken off well beneath the nail bed where it comes out from under the skin.
Now my daughter is not writhing in pain (like I would be). She's just watching tv like nothing is wrong. Anyone know of any reason that a whole nail would comes off/break like that? It's not bleeding, just seeping a clear fluid. The phone nurse wanted to check with her doctor, and that was quite a while ago. I still haven't heard back. It's just so weird...