Learn something new...

In addition to Cole's team losing today, there was another unfortunate event today. Zach was at the game playing with the other kids and he scraped his arm against a chain link fence. Nothing too bad, but it was about 6 inches long and was bleeding some.

We weren't sure from his immunization records for sure if he'd had a tetanus shot (they have lots of abbreviations on it), so we took him to the urgent care just to be sure. So we learned from the doc that he'd had one 3 years ago and they are good for 5 years. In the DTP and DTaP immunizations, the T stands for Tetanus.

The something new that I learned while checking into the situation was that association of Tetanus with rust is misleading. The tetanus bacteria can be on just about anything outside, and anything that punctures the skin, rusty or not, can transfer the bacteria inside the skin where it can grow.