Posted on 10/21/2005 6:58:46 PM PDT by LowOiL
Today we had to take my middle boy for surgery.
Seems my 4 y/o decided to stuff a lego up his left nostril. I could not fish it out, our peditrician couldn't fish it out, so surgery was the only option.
I guess it only is fair, as a 4 y/o I managed to plug my left ear with a piece of popcorn, that once swelled looked like a tumor.
Wow, I don't really know what I'm in for then! When my daughter was 1 1/2, she found a wine bottle filled with candle oil. I still don't know how she managed to drink it, but my husband looked down (yep, he was right there!) and saw her with the bottle and asked my what was in it. I looked at the bottle and thought, oh my god, I hope that's wine... but it wasn't.
My husband called Poison Control who told us that she wasn't going to die from it, but to take her to the hospital if she started coughing violently. She didn't, BUT she did start coughing and we got scared, so we took her to the hospital anyway. They did an XRay on her to make sure she hadn't aspirated any of the oil into her lungs.
Lo and behold, the XRay showed that she had very early stage Pneumonia. We were pretty shocked because she had no symptoms. Then we had to tell the doctor why we brought her in. He laughed at us, and told us that candle oil isn't going to kill her, but that it was a good thing we brought her in becuase the Pneumonia would have made her very sick.
You just never know.
Then there's the ice cream incident...
I left some ice cream on the counter and it melted so we tossed it. My daughter decided to get it out of the garbage, and she drops it on the kitchen floor. Melted ice cream EVERYWHERE! So I go to get the mop, and come back to find my dogs and little girl on her belly licking up the melted ice cream! I couldn't help but laugh, it was the funniest sight!
BUT...
My husband later that week was mopping the floor, and my daughter tried to pull the same trick with the Pine Sol. Fortunately, we realized what she was trying to do BEFORE she got to taste the cleaner.
Ah, Kids!
ROFL! Glad your kid is okay!
Can't remember anyone in my family losing a round of orifice roulette, but one of my daughters did swallow a quarter when she was small.
Unless you're counting accidentally hurting yourself.......then there's PLENTY! :)
Fix that window!! My sister had a window that was propped with a stick - her son (was two at the time) pulled the stick out and the window crashed onto his thumb, severing a portion of it off. I will never forger that horrible day. Who would have known that a window could do that?
Sons 1 and 2 got into a sword fight with sticks. This time it was son 1 who made the trip to the hospital - impaled through the leg by the jaunty lunge of his brother. 28 stitches (including muscles!). Let's move on.
Innocent two year old daughter puts the eraser from the end of a pencil up her nose. Tweezers don't work. A straw duct-taped to the end of the vacuum cleaner hose didn't work either (that was my idea - I could have sworn that was going to do it...). Nurse at hospital teaches daughter to close nostril and blow. The eraser flew 15 feet according to the nurse. Not bad for a little kid.
I went noticably gray that very day, according to my wife.
My mother-in-law is a pediatric nurse, and she has many stories to tell. Of course, our children have done quite enough of shoving things in different orifices, but I don't want to think about our youngest two doing anything similar at this moment, so I won't mention our personal stories. However, m-i-l told us one of the funniest incidences they had at their office. I guess this little boy decided to shove a Matchbox car up his nostril. Somehow, he managed to do it, and of course, it got stuck. Mom and Dad try to figure out how to get the car out to no avail. I guess they took the kid in, and the car was removed. When they got home, Dad's curiosity overtook him. He wanted to know how the kid could get a Matchbox car up his nose, so he tried it himself. Voila! He did it, too! And it got stuck. lol. He had to go to the emergency room with a toy car stuck up his nose, and they had to do surgery to get it out. Not a lot of brains in that family. lol
When I was really young, I found a pretty green bead. Now, I knew my parents would never let me keep it because it was dangerous and I wasn't allowed to have small stuff. But I knew I could handle it safely, so I decided to find a hiding place.
What better hiding place than one that's always with me? Perfect! ...and up my nose it went.
My pediatrician removed it with tweezers. Surprisingly, once it was retrieved, my parents wouldn't let me keep it(!). Go figure.
Hubby's exboss's 3-year-old (at the time) decided he would go to his friend's house to play. The problem was that the friend lived several blocks away and on the other side of a very high traffic intersection. The child left his house on his tricycle BUCK NAKED except for the cowboy hat on his head. He then crossed the major intersection, and I'm not sure exactly how the child was found by his parents. I could never get past the naked child crossing the major intersection on the tricycle part. The child is still alive today. He must be around six or seven.
I actually did laugh out loud at that. I KNEW what was coming...
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