Paxilpapa
Serenity, through modern chemistry
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Gonna be a long night
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honeybunny
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So the Kiddo went up stairs to crochet and came back with blood running down her arm...
Long day.
She cut her index finger pretty bad with some scissors, not enough for stitches, but lots of blood.
Luckily, Dr. Dad came home and patched her up... I'm a basket case when it comes to stuff like this.
Here's hoping for a boring Wednesday...
Far West
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What doesn't kill her makes you stronger...
My kid dropped a box cutter on his foot while working barefoot in the shop making a "shield" out of cardboard and duct tape. His favorite saying at the time was, "Why doesn't stupid hurt?"
The rule in the shop was you have to have on shoes... guess who didn't?
He came up from the basement like a wounded animal, blood everywhere. I could not get the wound to stay closed or stop bleeding.
In the end we had to go to urgent care. The doctor stitched it, but his foot was not numb enough when she first started stitching. Sadly the doctor and I were laughing at his pain because his favorite quote came up and I said, "So tell me how much stupid does not hurt?" Novocaine shots in the foot hurt, even when they use the numbing cream first.
He had not had a flu shot, which she recommended since we were there, and he needed a tetanus shot... so I had her do those two shots also... and again asked him after the tetanus shot how much stupid does not hurt. He is 25 now, we both survived his childhood...
I hope the rest of this year is blood free and boringly safe for kiddo!
honeybunny
Pursuit Driver
When the Kiddo was almost 2, she flipped a heavy wood piano bench onto her foot, when I turned my back for 2 seconds to walk into the kitchen. I was standing less than 5 feet away from her at the time... She cut the top of 2 toes off, they were literally hanging off by a bit of skin. I almost fainted and wrapped her foot in a kitchen towel, frantically calling my neighbor (CNA) to rush us to the emergency room while I held the toes on. I burst into the ER like a crazy woman, blew past the front desk shouting "she cut her toes off !!! She cut her toes off !!!" Handing her over to the first doctor who rushed out. Took the doctors 3 hours to stitch them both back right into the nail bed... One of the very worst days of my life !!! They kept questioning me like I was some sort of hysterical criminal... instead of the Mother of a child who just suffered a horrible accident. (In their defense, I looked pretty crazy with my morning hair, blood soaked bathrobe, Playboy bunny Tshirt, and disco pajama pants.)What doesn't kill her makes you stronger...
My kid dropped a box cutter on his foot while working barefoot in the shop making a "shield" out of cardboard and duct tape. His favorite saying at the time was, "Why doesn't stupid hurt?"
The rule in the shop was you have to have on shoes... guess who didn't?
He came up from the basement like a wounded animal, blood everywhere. I could not get the wound to stay closed or stop bleeding.
In the end we had to go to urgent care. The doctor stitched it, but his foot was not numb enough when she first started stitching. Sadly the doctor and I were laughing at his pain because his favorite quote came up and I said, "So tell me how much stupid does not hurt?" Novocaine shots in the foot hurt, even when they use the numbing cream first.
He had not had a flu shot, which she recommended since we were there, and he needed a tetanus shot... so I had her do those two shots also... and again asked him after the tetanus shot how much stupid does not hurt. He is 25 now, we both survived his childhood...
I hope the rest of this year is blood free and boringly safe for kiddo!
We had baby proofed everything and our home was the perfect safe place for a toddler...
Who would have ever thought such a tiny tot could flip over a sturdy 150 pound bench ???
Today you cannot even see the scars and she has beautiful toes...
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Apparently the tornado warning for Paulding was in my area in Seven Hills. It was very close and nothing woke us up as I have my phone on silent at night. Looks like I need to get me a weather radio.
Same thing happened to us, we had our phones silenced and heard nothing.
The Sound Guy
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It was just East of us. (Dabbs Bridge and 61) My phone went off, but I can't have it silenced since the Home may need to call me about dad.
The Sound Guy
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If you get a weather radio, make sure it is one that is county programmable, you don't want to be woke up for a tornado warning in Gordon or South Fulton when you live in Paulding.
Even with that feature, since I have added Paulding, Polk , Douglas and Bartow counties since stuff tends to come from either the north or the west, we will get alarms for smaller storms that never come near us.
Paxilpapa
Serenity, through modern chemistry
We have/had a weather radio, but the rechargeable battery finally went dead and now we get sleep. Our cells get a call from some storm center when things get bad, which surprised me when Sound Guy said there were storm warnings as we didn't get any calls.
Far West
Pursuit Driver
Ewwwe that made me cringe thinking about the horror of that bench on toddler toes!!!!!! I can't imagine!!!!!When the Kiddo was almost 2, she flipped a heavy wood piano bench onto her foot, when I turned my back for 2 seconds to walk into the kitchen. I was standing less than 5 feet away from her at the time... She cut the top of 2 toes off, they were literally hanging off by a bit of skin. I almost fainted and wrapped her foot in a kitchen towel, frantically calling my neighbor (CNA) to rush us to the emergency room while I held the toes on. I burst into the ER like a crazy woman, blew past the front desk shouting "she cut her toes off !!! She cut her toes off !!!" Handing her over to the first doctor who rushed out. Took the doctors 3 hours to stich them both back right into the nail bed... One of the very worst days of my life !!! They kept questioning me like I was some sort of hysterical criminal... instead of the Mother of a child who just suffered a horrible accident. (In their defense, I looked pretty crazy with my morning hair, blood soaked bathrobe, Playboy bunny Tshirt, and disco pajama pants.)
We had baby proofed everything and our home was the perfect safe place for a toddler...
Who would have ever thought such a tiny tot could flip over a sturdy 150 pound bench ???
Today you cannot even see the scars and she has beautiful toes...
So relieved to hear the toes fared better than I bet mom did, and are beautiful!!!!
LOL at Playboy bunny T-shirt, and disco pajama pants in the ER... but I know they have seen more unique than that...
The Sound Guy
Pursuit Driver
Mine seems to be cellular service alert, the "My Radar" app I use has notifications disabled right now. I think the cell people base it on where the phone is at the moment, if its' GPS shows it out of the alert area, no matter where your service address is, it won't go off. I've had it go off in hotels when I travel for issues at the hotel location.