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jrjo
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 Posted: 02/01/05 - 12:14 Post subject:
No stitches yet, but we've had a couple ER trips and gotten "glued"!
Modern medicine rocks.
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Gogirlgo
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Posted: 02/01/05 - 12:17 Post subject:
Some kids just have to learn by doing. I have one like that.
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airehead
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Posted: 02/01/05 - 12:50 Post subject:
Mine is the opposite. I told my son to stop throwing his ball in the house because he'd break something.
Sho nuff. He hit a heavy crystal vase that fell and broke into huge shards and little round sharp pieces--one of which I found with my knee. It took forever and lots of blood to get that piece of glass out of my knee. 
(I did it at home--although I'm not as tough as having a friend sew me up---  )
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MastrBrewr
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Posted: 02/01/05 - 12:54 Post subject:
Just tell him what my dad told me when I stuck a screwdriver into the electrical socket:
Hurts, doesn't it? Listen next time and you won't feel like such a dumbass.
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RangerG
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Posted: 02/01/05 - 12:56 Post subject:
I remember telling my son who was very young at the time, not to ride his siters bike down a large hill on a gravel road.
Yep...he did...took a spill at high speed. There was a cut on about every inch of his body..all with debris in them.
His sister helped him back to our place and when I saw him, I put him on a table to run him for broken bones etc...clean him and the cuts up...
He looked up at me and asked...Dad...am I gona die? 
I ran him to the hospital "Code 3".. There was no available ambulance service where we were staying at that time.. and I was a Rescue Chief.. two of my EMT's met me inroute to check him..and here are three guys with all their EMT gear piling into a little town ER with a cut up kid.. Scared the bejesus outa the ER staff...
It was exciting.. 
Of course a month later he broke his arm on a swing..in the same area... repeat run to the ER..
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RangerG
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Posted: 02/01/05 - 12:59 Post subject:
| MastrBrewr wrote: | Just tell him what my dad told me when I stuck a screwdriver into the electrical socket:
Hurts, doesn't it? Listen next time and you won't feel like such a dumbass. |
My dad had to take out the fuse box and install a breaker box cuz I did that stuff on a regular basis.. Mom would just go down and reset the breaker.. and pick me up off the floor...
Even then they could tell I was gona be an Engineer....it also explains a couple of other things...
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JACKED UP
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Posted: 02/01/05 - 15:36 Post subject:
| MastrBrewr wrote: | Just tell him what my dad told me when I stuck a screwdriver into the electrical socket:
Hurts, doesn't it? Listen next time and you won't feel like such a dumbass. |
Sounds like somthing I'd say to my kids too. 
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Noley
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Posted: 02/01/05 - 20:07 Post subject:
8+ hours in the ER and 7 stitches later, my son got home at 4am.
He was a trooper and did not cry when they worked on him.
I was impressed.
I would have been hysterical if it had been me.
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Posted: 02/01/05 - 20:10 Post subject:
| nolefan85 wrote: | 8+ hours in the ER and 7 stitches later, my son got home at 4am.
He was a trooper and did not cry when they worked on him.
I was impressed.
I would have been hysterical if it had been me. |
Cool.  How old?
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Noley
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Posted: 02/01/05 - 20:13 Post subject:
| JACKED UP wrote: |
Cool. How old? |
He's turning 4 this coming Sunday.
I cannot believe it really and how quickly he's grown. 
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Posted: 02/01/05 - 20:16 Post subject:
| nolefan85 wrote: |
He's turning 4 this coming Sunday.
I cannot believe it really and how quickly he's grown. |
Yeah, they do grow up way too fast. 
What a big bot he was though.
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kobyj
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Posted: 02/01/05 - 21:11 Post subject:
| nolefan85 wrote: |
He's turning 4 this coming Sunday.
I cannot believe it really and how quickly he's grown. |
I had to get stiches on my forehead when I was 4 or 5. I was riding my tricycle around the front yard when I hit my head on a hand rail or something like that. The doc was about a 20 or 30 minute drive.  The only thing I really remember from the incident was eating oreos in the truck during the drive there.
20 years later, I still have the scar on my forehead.
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thegman
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Posted: 02/01/05 - 21:55 Post subject:
| brie k wrote: |
Doesn't mean you're a bad mom.
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My mom used to call that "instant punishment".
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coachmarkos
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Posted: 02/02/05 - 12:50 Post subject:
not stitches, but coachette did dislocate her elbow jumping off a couch when she was 3.
She was at daycare, and was jumping off the couch. The daycare lady told her to stop, and coachette, daredevil that she is, jumped one more time, landed funny on her arm, and dislocated her elbow.
She also broke her humerous bone falling off the monkey bars when she was 5.
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