It was bound to happen.  With all the cactus we have around our house, one of the girls was destined to fall into it, and it had to be Emily, poor kid.  I can't believe it only grabbed her one leg, but it did, and that is a good thing.  If you are going to fall into cactus, do your research before you try getting it out.  I have heard all sorts of remedies for cactus spines in the skin, including packaging tape, duct tape, and Elmer's glue, but I didn't check to see how effective those methods are. The packaging tape and the duct tape made the problem worse, breaking the spines off or driving them in deeper. And slightly cooked duct tape (slightly cooked from being stored outdoors) took skin and hair off.  So then we tried gently wiping glue on, drying it with the hair dryer, and then peeling it off.  Sounds like a good solution, doesn't it?  It wasn't.  It pulled hair worse than the tape did, and it left the spines in!

After torturing my child three times I finally soaked her in the tub, then pulled those spines (hundreds of them!) out with a tweezer.  And guess what I found out when I finally did my research -- you are supposed to use the tweezers first!  Oh.  Sorry, Emily!  Thankfully this was only beavertail (hence the pink juice on her leg, from running into a fruit) and not cholla!  Don't EVER run into a cholla.