Toddler Vs. Knife Round one! *ding* DUW

[Gooseman]

oh and dirtbikes don't climb trees

HAHA OMG MEMORY FLASHBACK!!!

We have a sort of rougue bike park built in the woods inside a local park away from prying eyes and liability waivers. Well, lets just say I used to be a huge mountain biker back in middle school and one time when I brought a girl I was interested in, I sorta lost concentration mid jump as I was looking at her instead of where I was going to land my bike... I went smack into a tree. Let's just say as I flew off my bike my knee cap somehow got caught on my handle bars and I have a pretty nasty scar on my right leg where they had to sew it back on... Be careful around women, they just may inadvertantly kill ya!

[MeMe]

It's amazing really MeMe how your instincts just kick in. I've done the drive to the ER, one hand on the wheel, the other applying compression to that spurting head wound (darn but anything above the shoulders bleeds like a stuck pig!). I always find I'm okay during any emergency, then need a moment to quietly fall apart once I know things are under control or someone else in now in charge.

yea..your right. That just looks scary.

My son is accident prone. He has had stiches 3 times...his head, lip and hand...broke his wrist, jammed his 2 front teeth back into his gums (that was horrible!) and many other *small* injuries. He is also asthmatic and has been rushed to the er for asthma attcks. He was diagnosed at 3 months with asthma. though they like to wait till they are about a year (from what I was told) but with my family history and all his illnesses they said they were 100% sure it was asthma.

So needless to say in reality I porbably would have just done the same she did.

[frankykeno]

HAHA OMG MEMORY FLASHBACK!!!

We have a sort of rougue bike park built in the woods inside a local park away from prying eyes and liability waivers. Well, lets just say I used to be a huge mountain biker back in middle school and one time when I brought a girl I was interested in, I sorta lost concentration mid jump as I was looking at her instead of where I was going to land my bike... I went smack into a tree. Let's just say as I flew off my bike my knee cap somehow got caught on my handle bars and I have a pretty nasty scar on my right leg where they had to sew it back on... Be careful around women, they just may inadvertantly kill ya!

Ben please check for another scar. I think you and my brother Jim may have been seperated at birth! (most of my brother's idiot stunts somehow always semed to involve fast vehicles and fast women LOL)

[TheAudOne]

Joanna...I love your writting it cracks me up!!! Glad I am not the only one that see's the great humor in everything...

Yeah Brian works 16 hour days/nights so it's super hard I'm like "I do have a husband ya know...some where...havent seen him in what seems like days...but he's out there!!" Its hard feeling like a single parent on top of all this...but I'm doing it..kicking butts and taken names...what other choice do you have? Either be a stand up parent...everyone strives to be better then their own in some way..or be the parent on Dr. Phil...although some days I think "yep I'm the parent on the Dr. Phil"..all wire haired...big eyes...yelling like a maniac. I think I'm doing well though...I think better then most at times which I'm sure no other mom would admit to...
So far her trips to the hossy were as follows.
-Mysterious vomiting..followed by low grade fever...the runs...and was non responsive...this was at 6 months old...we sat in the waiting for for 14 hours (If you think I'm lieing I'll send you the papers!!) She threw up off an on for awhile until she becamse severly dehydrated and stopped...thats when she became really really scarey and would just lay in here car seat eyes glazed over not looking at anything...whose 6 month old relaxes??? The hospital said they thought it was a bug and sent us home..no testing was done....
3 hours later and an hour drive to another hossy after it started all over she was hospitalized in the pediatric critical care unit because she was doing so bad (thanks to the lack of help at the other hospital) 3 days later we came home...never figured out why...but it had stopped after being on an IV for 3 days....
the worst part is I was out of town...away from my hubby...visiting my Grandmothers who cant sit in a hospital all day...so I was alone and scared to death...sitting there watching your baby get more and more sick and knowing you are doing everything you can short of taking a hostage and forcing them to look at her was killing me...I cried more then her..I didnt eat for those 4 days or shower because our hospital room didnt have one and I didnt want to leave my lil baby alone to go any where...
1 month later that happend again....sitting in the hospital I figured it out..each time this happend I had given her a milk based rice cereal...BINGO I ran to the specialist and forced themto run every allergy test they could...it was milk ..I should get paid for my services...
What is scarey is with the above symptoms...no hospital every ran a tox panal on her...what if I was poisoning her?? Or she got into something deadly while I wasnt looking?? That scared me when I thought "omg how many kids come in here in that situation and dont get treated?"
So now we watch the milk...because thats exactly what happens with her MIlk Allergy..
The next time we were in we had a friend staying with us for a bit of time and he chewed tabacoo well she got into the spit cup and got it all over her..I had to take her in just to make sure she didnt drink any They were nice about it but "why did you let her get into it?" really pisses me off.....

I'm just tired of people thinking they have to tell you how to do things... she is 2.5 I think I got it down pat by now thanks!!!! I mean hell she got her first cut at 2.5...I think were doing ok LOL.

I did get into with an old lady at Publix (grocery store) not to long ago..yes I smoke...I know its horrible...I did stop the second I found out I was pregnant and didnt start for over a year after (she nursed...and still tries to )
I was buying smokes and this old woman behind me felt it to be her duty to inform me that they are bad..who knew? "ya know those are horrible...and you have a baby..those lead to alot worst things then cancer" and I said "yeah like hooking and crack?" she wasnt happy with that but I did respond "ma'am if smoking is the worst thing I do in this life then I'm a fantastic person"
So lay off people...when you see a parent she does NOT need advice...unless she asks first!!!!

[TheAudOne]

Howabout them Astros! Bagwell was the man! lol jk

ok, back on topic... WHAT IS THAT KNIFE FOR? LOOKS INSANE!!! lol

It's for cutting up small children DUH!!!!
No I said in the first post with the pics..it's a sportsman's knife...used for cutting fish..skinning etc. Its a great knife..although I wont use it ever now!!!!

[TheAudOne]

OMG! :eek:

I just have to know how you are still alive! Judging by the pictures...if I would have walked around the corner and seen all that blood and my lil one in the middle I think I would have had a heart attack!!! That looks so scary! ok...well maybe not a heart attack but maybe I would have gone into shock! That is one of the things I fear most in my house is the kids and knives. The second being a fire.

I am glad she is doing well and so are you!

nice documentation also!

Ok after the fact I realized it wasnt THAT bad ya know..but I heard her make a noise I had never heard before...came around the corner saying "Raigen it's ok whats up?" and stopped....my mind went blank...I couldnt tell you exactly what went on next if I had to...I remember comng over..not screaming just "omg omg omg omg omg" in a low town over and over...I got her...put her hand between me and her and pressed us together while I ran for a cloth ... I have a basket of clean clothes on my kitchen counter...my mind couldnt figure that out so I grabbed my husbands dirty sleeping shirt LOL gross...

I grabbed the phone and called 911 which was a PITA I do remember yelling at the woman..she kept saying "speak up I cant hear you over the child" "I cant put her down so just listen!!!" I sat there in the chair once I hung up with her singing to her as she rested her head on me...blood was pouring out and I thought "I'm singing my child to the other side" yeah I had a moment of insanity! That's when I started crying alot I was home alone like always with her...middle of the night way out in the boon-docks...scared to death...but we made it through thank god...and yeah I drove her after the paramedics came..I just wanted to make sure she wasnt going to bleed out in my back seat...I would of drove holding her if I had to ... but wanted someone to tell me if she would be ok...they did say "holy hell its a blood bath in here" the shirt is really bad I should of gotten pictures of the shirt I used to wrap it...and our clothes...I came into the ER and it looked like I killed someone lol.

[TheAudOne]

Yeah, I was with my ex for nearly 4 years and at no point did marriage ever enter my mind, (well, not without OH DEAR GOD NO, RUN, RUNNNNN!) but with Ashley, I had known her less than two weeks and knew that she was the girl I wanted to marry. She felt the same way, and we acctually got married before we had even known each other 6 months.

I dont regret any of it and never will. I feel like the luckiest man ever and still wonder how I landed a beautiful, smart, funny girl who's also my best friend.

**mushyness off**

So yeah, lets go um, look at cars and guns and snakes and other manly stuff!

**scratches, farts, and burps**

There, thats better, now wheres my football!

hahahah god that's the best..you made me laugh big time!1 Thanks!!

[MeMe]

I always have a "moment of insanity" whenever one gets hurt. I always think the worst but I really know it will all be ok. Now...with Kyle, I tell Jeff..."You wanna take him this time cause I did the last trip!" lol. we are alternating.

O and when Cait was 3 months old she had nursemaid elbow and we found out one morning when we woke up and she could not move her arm at all and was screaming in pain. She slept with us most of the time and I thought Jeff had rolled onto her in the night and broke it! I didn't think he had as he isn't a rough sleeper. So when I get to the hospital they run all these tests and x-rays and determine it was nursemaid elbow. But before that they were all jumping my case for having her in the bed with us. I was FIT! I mean she was my 3rd child and I have 5 sibs and I am the 2nd oldest so I kinda know a lil about taking care of kids. lol. She finally grew out of it by around 4 years of age. Thank God!

[frankykeno]

One of the things you learn hon after a few kids is you are the expert, not the doctors, not the teachers...you. You know your child best and your instincts are almost always right on the button. I remember with Kate she was prone to really bad ear infections and had a very high tolerance for pain. When the daycare called me that she was actually complaining about her eye, my mom radar went off big time! Raced her to the doctor's office and this witch of a receptionist starts giving me a hard time about not having an appointment (yes you witch I usually have my daughter plan her earaches!). By this time Katie is screaming in pain so I sat my butt down right beside the witch's desk and sweetly told my daughter to holler as loud as she liked, momma knew her ear hurt! Needless to say the other patients offered their appointments, my wonderful doctor came out to see what the noise was and immediately took Kate in. He knew she rarely gave any sign of ear pain. Turns out her inner ear was in horrible shape and had we not got on it that day she likely would have ended up with severe hearing loss. Oh and shortly thereafter witchie poo lost her job (neener freakin neener ).

When it comes to injuries and bleeding, I try to remember my granny's loving words....

"OH FOR GAWD'S SAKES DON'T BLEED ON THE GOOD CARPET!!!"

lol

p.s. My older sister says you know you are a parent when you willingly allow your child to puke on you because hey you are easier to clean than the carpet!

p.s.s. If you don't laugh, you cry or lose your mind.

[TheAudOne]

Oh god I hear ya..I have never heard of nursemaid elbow And Raigen coslep with me and Brian for a year and I wish to god some nights she would still do it (I miss cuddling my baby..smelling milk breath all night and peering into those big blue eyes first thing in the morning...I do not miss sleeping on my side to nurse her the WHOLE night or not being able to stya up late )


And yes we are the experts...I think that's the biggest thing..fighting to not seem like a know it all yet standing up for the fact that no one in this world will ever know your child like you do...I was freaking out because she was 6 months old at the hospital that first time...she was and still is high needs...I could never put her down...put more miles on my maya wrap (my sling I love to death) then any car I have ever owned...I even had to shower with her on my hip!!! She would scream in the car because I was out of sight etc. etc. yet here she was sitting in her car seat(which she hated) just blank and not making a sound...I knew she was sick as hell yet they didnt seem to think a thing was wrong with her and had the balls to contact me for my payment! I called the news on them and told them there is nothing worse in this world then a pissed off mom....they dropped the payment

I keep telling Raigen that one more trip to the hospital and social workers will be knocking on my door lol