Accidents do happen

[ollieNnym88]

Well it was Tuck,UntamedRose, and me talking in the ECFPIF chat room an Rose and Tuck were talking about what kind of accidents have happend to their kids. So i was telling them about the time when i was 5 yrs old that i thought up this bright idea of having my cousin slide this ottoman on the rug and i would jump up and land on it and slide on it DIDNT HAPPEN AS I PLANNED. I trip over it and smash my face against the metal frame of the water bed that was in the room. I got atleast 10-20 stitches and had a scar that ran all the way from the tip of my nose all the way to the tip of my forehead... now that i have gotten older and stuff the scar has gone down alot it now is just on the bridge of my nose. Well like they say accidents do happen.

 

[Tuck]

When my boys were little. And we just got into our new bigger home. The boys are 21 months apart in age.
They were chasing each other threw the house playing tag. Back andforth threw the open floor plan just a running and giggling. Till one ran into the bedroom and closed the door. And the one right behind him ran right into it.
His head hit the door knob and split it open.
Off to the emergency room for a few drops of super glue and a 700 buck bill.

 

[Caddyman]

i was about 6 or 7 and we had a carport on the side of our house. i was eating icecream and decided to climb on top of the car port, there was a staircase that went up there. well i got up there and soemthing happened and i slid down the roof, fell onto the driveway face first. i have 24 stiches in my head from the center of my hairline about 6" back. still have the scar now at 28 too....lol

 

[charmed412]

When I was about 11 or 12, I was arguing with my older sister and called her a name I won't repeat here . She started chasing me and I tried to run outside by pushing on the storm door. Turns out it was locked and my arm went straight through the glass. I slice my arm open from my wrist to my elbow. Don't know how many stitches it would have taken cause my mom thought band aids would work just fine....and I guess they did cause I'm still here.

 

[TJVapes]

I was standing outside one day on a hot summer day when someone decided to spray me with a waterhose. I turned and ran as fast as I could ... smack.. I ran right in to the house and knocked myself out cold. I had a huge "goose egg" bump on my head for a week.

I've had lots of accidents but I laugh everytime I think about that one.

 

[MuddyWaterMan]

When I was about 11 or 12, I was arguing with my older sister and called her a name I won't repeat here . She started chasing me and I tried to run outside by pushing on the storm door. Turns out it was locked and my arm went straight through the glass. I slice my arm open from my wrist to my elbow. Don't know how many stitches it would have taken cause my mom thought band aids would work just fine....and I guess they did cause I'm still here.

You ARGUE? Noooooooo! I can't believe it! ( god I wish there was a sarcasm font, just in case you missed it.)

Let's see here have a nice scar on each eyebrow, one from the brick stairs one from a peanut gallery style piano, almost cut my little toe completely off with a car stereo, shot myself in the eye with a B.B gun a la Christmas Story , fractured my ankle jumping off the roof with a tarp trying to parachute, have another scar on my head from trying to swing on the curtains in my room like Tarzan......
I think I'll stop there. I will tell you about years 11 and up later..... LOL


Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

 

[Tuck]

Muddy,I would hate to have been your momma.

 

[Enid]

In the late 70's and early 80's, the neighborhood kids used to "play" wrassling (wrestling, for you not in the South). Who in the world would let 10 kids get in a square and beat the hell outta one another? My parents and everyone on our block, that's who.
I was one of two girls out of the whole group, so I had to be especially ruthless.

The time that I really got hurt was softball. They always made me catcher. I still hate them for that. Someone smacked me in the head with the bat while swinging. The neighborhood kids promptly picked up the bases and the bats, hid them in their garage. Then, they sent a kid to my house to tell my mom that they just happened to find me passed out in their yard. Full ambulance ride, ER visit and hospital stay. I was out a while.
My mom then decided that I was too old to play with boys, eyeroll. So, I started playing with the power and blacksmithing tools out in the garage.

 

[UntamedRose]

When I was like 10/11 was playing in our backyard with my younger brother who was like 7/8
We where pretending we where little john and robin hood fighting it out.
Like...

Balancing on a log over a little ditch, had the sticks and everything.

Well it didnt end well little john(me ATT) won that battle, and split Robin hoods nose wide open. o0

 

[Girl4givn]

My daughter (8 yrs at the time) tried to climb onto the trampoline using one of the screws in the frame that the cover had come off of. She slips and her leg slides down this screw. My other daugther carries her into the house -blood gushing everywhere -looked like a cheap horror flick. I couldn't even look. So my husband and my son (16 yrs) rush her to the emergency room.

That wasn't the accident.

The rip is quite long and jagged, so the doctor is probing around the wound with my daughter on the table, trying to make sure all the debris was out before he tried to suture her up. My hubby and son are standing right there. Keep in mind, my son is only 16 but is about 6'2" and weights almost 200 pounds. My husband said all of the sudden, there was the most gosh-awful noise, and my 16-year-old had passed out, taking out a cart full of sterilized equipment and some type of vitals monitor on his way down.

My daughter loves to remind us to this day how lonely it felt on the table with her leg split open while everyone was working to revive her goofy older brother....

 

[MuddyWaterMan]

Muddy,I would hate to have been your momma.

That's funny, Mom says the same thing all the time!


Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

 

[Aresi]

I have an ex who had the most adorable little boy ever. I'd take him to the mall and he'd literally flirt with women. He was 2. Well, one day he was over visiting us and, like little boys do, was getting into mischief. I was making something to eat, the boyfriend was on the computer.

"Joshie! Stop jumping on the rockers! You'll fall and hurt yourself."

2 minutes later:
"JOSHUA! Sit in the chair, don't JUMP in it."

2 minutes later:
CRASH, unearthly scream of pain and fear. Momma Mel (me) rushes over and sure enough, he'd fallen and apparently his mouth hit the corner of the coffee table. A very solid hand made, wooden coffee table. He split his lip. that entire little part where the indentation is...from his lip to his little nose. Then, after he stopped screaming, and I had a bandaid on it, I couldn't get the little guy to stop LICKING it.

Ahhh children.

 

[Caddyman]

my kid did pageants (no glitz) when she was young, she is really super pretty naturally, she was really good and won a lot. we went to one in virginia (we live in delaware) and got checked into the hotel room.

she was maybe 4 or 5, she starts jumping on the bed. i tell her to stop and start walking over to her and she took a bad bounce and cracked the ish out of her nose/face on the headboard. it turned black and blue almost immediately, we took her to a friend who is a nurse and she said it wasnt broken just badly bruised. she was fine as far as pain and stuff like 5 minutes later.

well after it was determined she was ok, and she told us she was ok, we through some coverup on it, she hated that, you could still see it (well we could) and she competed....and won, we were pretty shocked, it was a big pageant.

when we got home to delaware we took her to the kids hospital to double check and get xrays and all that and they came out fine, she was good to go, tough little devil.

 

[Darkwitless]

I broke my nose the first time climbing on one of those jungle gyms that form a half circle. Still don't know how I fell off, except that I was standing on top of it and next thing I knew I was spread eagle on the ground spitting dirt. Lucky I didn't knock a tooth out.

The second time I broke my nose I was teaching swimming lessons and let the little boy on the diving board talk me into getting too close. Blood and water = ewww. Looked like someone had been killed. Wasn't until I got him over to the side that we could tell which one of us was bleeding. I couldn't see because all I was seeing was star!

I broke my thumb after swimming lessons screwing around - pretending the kick board was a surf board and slipped and landed on my hand. That's the summer the DH (then boyfriend) learned to braid my hair. I had a cast on a couldn't gather the hair to pull it up, but somehow managed to drive a stick-shift and continue to teach lessons and life guard.

Broke a girls leg playing soccer fighting for a ball - next year we played the same team again the night of their big homecoming dance - she had the ball, i challenged, she stood back and let me have it. Her coach nearly had a heart attack on the side line.

Chased my sister up the tree with a dead cicada on a stick. She climbed so high she was swaying with the wind and could see over the house. On her way down a branch broke...she fell about 15 feet, bouncing off branches, and ended up with a couple of stitches in her temple. My mom's comment when all was said and done: Dang it! I told you to change your shirt before you went out to play! As she had ruined her white uniform blouse from the blood.

Oddly enough the only ER visit with all 3 boys was a couple of years ago when ds#3 was unloading the dish washer, grabbed a knife and cut his hand between 2 fingers. Took ONE stitch. ONE. And cost $400. I took the stitch out at home when it was time. Saved an office visit of $50. (now you know I've just jinx myself by saying anything. BTW the boys are 16,13&10)

 

[Enid]

I loved the part of the dead cicada on a stick.

I broke my nose the first time climbing on one of those jungle gyms that form a half circle. Still don't know how I fell off, except that I was standing on top of it and next thing I knew I was spread eagle on the ground spitting dirt. Lucky I didn't knock a tooth out.

The second time I broke my nose I was teaching swimming lessons and let the little boy on the diving board talk me into getting too close. Blood and water = ewww. Looked like someone had been killed. Wasn't until I got him over to the side that we could tell which one of us was bleeding. I couldn't see because all I was seeing was star!

I broke my thumb after swimming lessons screwing around - pretending the kick board was a surf board and slipped and landed on my hand. That's the summer the DH (then boyfriend) learned to braid my hair. I had a cast on a couldn't gather the hair to pull it up, but somehow managed to drive a stick-shift and continue to teach lessons and life guard.

Broke a girls leg playing soccer fighting for a ball - next year we played the same team again the night of their big homecoming dance - she had the ball, i challenged, she stood back and let me have it. Her coach nearly had a heart attack on the side line.

Chased my sister up the tree with a dead cicada on a stick. She climbed so high she was swaying with the wind and could see over the house. On her way down a branch broke...she fell about 15 feet, bouncing off branches, and ended up with a couple of stitches in her temple. My mom's comment when all was said and done: Dang it! I told you to change your shirt before you went out to play! As she had ruined her white uniform blouse from the blood.

Oddly enough the only ER visit with all 3 boys was a couple of years ago when ds#3 was unloading the dish washer, grabbed a knife and cut his hand between 2 fingers. Took ONE stitch. ONE. And cost $400. I took the stitch out at home when it was time. Saved an office visit of $50. (now you know I've just jinx myself by saying anything. BTW the boys are 16,13&10)

 

[atsirk]

Chased my sister up the tree with a dead cicada on a stick. She climbed so high she was swaying with the wind and could see over the house. On her way down a branch broke...she fell about 15 feet, bouncing off branches, and ended up with a couple of stitches in her temple. My mom's comment when all was said and done: Dang it! I told you to change your shirt before you went out to play! As she had ruined her white uniform blouse from the blood.

OMG almost this same thing happened to me! Brother was chasing me with a cicada (in his hand, not on a stick) and I tripped off the curb and split my forehead open. I even got in trouble for playing outside before changing out of my uniform, got blood all over my white shirt (and plaid skirt, and little red tie lol). Too spooky!

I was (and still am) accident prone - it would take pages and days to recount them - I'd say I terrified my parents a bit. Not much better as an adult, though I move a bit slower now so I don't run into things as hard anymore.

 

[Tuck]

A few years ago I was straighting up one of our outside sheds.
I was moving this and that around so i could get in all the riding lawnmowers. I have this pull behind my lawn mower grass aerator.I shoved it back into a corner and put it down, let go of the handle that connects to to my mower. I was bent over. When I let it go the weight on the back of it flipped the handle up.
Bolt was there to connect it to my mower. And the bolt slammed up and hit me in the forehead.
I felt the blood and hollered for hubby. To get me something to put on my forehead.
4 stiches later I was as good as new. But with a massive head hurt.

 

[Fudgey]

When I was 12 I was washing dishes. I was pushing the cleaning rag into the glass and it broke. Sliced the skin right off my knuckle. I called for my mom and she freaked out and she is a nurse.....LOL Six stitches and a nice jagged scar on my right index knuckle.

 

[LuckyLulu]

This a sad story, really sad because it was only about a year ago.
We were on vacation in the Key West with a bunch of friends and all of our children. It was about 2 A.M. and I could not sleep so a friend gave me a sleeping pill and I sat out on the patio overlooking the beautiful Gulf of Mexico. After about 20-30min I felt like I was getting a little sleepy so I got up and proceeded to walk into the hotel room and BAM... Walked straight into the sliding glass door. Knocked my self out straight onto the concrete patio floor.
Moral of the story, don't take anyone's sleeping pills.

 

[Darkwitless]

OMG almost this same thing happened to me! Brother was chasing me with a cicada (in his hand, not on a stick) and I tripped off the curb and split my forehead open. I even got in trouble for playing outside before changing out of my uniform, got blood all over my white shirt (and plaid skirt, and little red tie lol). Too spooky!

I was (and still am) accident prone - it would take pages and days to recount them - I'd say I terrified my parents a bit. Not much better as an adult, though I move a bit slower now so I don't run into things as hard anymore.

atsirk: My sis was incredibly unlucky in the injury dept. she got her first stitches when we were little enough to share a bath (we're 13 months apart) and she dipped her head in the water and whipped her hair up and cracked her head on the porcelain soap dish built into the tub wall! The ER doc mad a comment about the poor dish - when we got home dad checked - she had actually cracked the corner out of it!

Our tiny cul-de-sac had 14 kids in 4 families...my parents swore the local hospital had a reserved parking spot for XXXXXX Dr.

My parents were often gone for the weekend giving marriage retreats so we had prefilled out emergency care permission slips...I took my brother one Super Bowl Sunday to the ER for a broken hand. We came with our soda, books and emergency medical release forms. Turns out the triage nurse went to grade school with my dad. She praised our "prepared to wait" gear when my parents called the hospital. I'd left a note at home (this is 20 years ago) saying "Don't panic. Took (brother) to the hospital. Pretty sure his hand is broken". lol

My parents took my sister and her young, just walking son on vacation on year since her hubs was overseas. My nephew you ate the leaf of a plant. Since they didn't know how much or if it was poisonous they ended up in ER. Dad turned to sis and said "Hell, I thought I was done sitting in ER rooms with you!"