So I just spent 3 hours in the ER and can I just say, ER's

[BamaGirl]

SUCK!! :mad: My boy stabbed himself in the eye with freaking screw driver. Why? Hell if I know! He's a boy! :banghead: Do you know how hard it is to hold a 4yo down and put dye in his eye?? :eyes: Took 3 nurses to hold him. I think he scared about 10 years off my life. So anyway he's fine, amazingly didn't cut or scrape his eyeball, but he's going to have a heck of a black eye. :cry:

[lady raven]

1. I'm so glad he's OK!

That must have been so scary! I would have probably lost it if my son had done something like that. Boys do weird things, don't they?

[BamaGirl]

6. Yep

This boy is tryin' to kill me, I swear. I'm gonna be loony by the time he's 10. :crazy:

[SeattleGirl]

2. Oh geez, poor little guy!

And poor mom!!! I'm glad things turned out okay!!

[BamaGirl]

10. Thanks, he seems pretty impressed with himself right now

Freaked mom out and got pizza for dinner. :grr:

[SeattleGirl]

16. Oh, they can be such sneaky little imps!

B-)

[Spacemom]

3. I'm glad he's okay!

What is it with boys and sharp objects. When my oldest was 3 he stabbed a fork through his tongue.

They definately keep you hopping! Extra TLC for your son. :hug:

[Arugula Latte]

8. Ouch! How does one do that?

You'd think if you pushed it in a little way the excruciating pain would make you think, "Hmmm. Maybe I'd better remove this fork in my tongue."

[nashbridges]

18. Yeah, you'd think

But speaking as someone who shot a staple through my forearm when I was five (dad's tools were so cool), you don't think that far ahead. The damage is usually done before the pain even reaches your brain.

[BamaGirl]

9. I can't figure it out either

:shrug: My girls never did stuff like this. Hugs for all the moms of daredevil boys, I say! :grouphug:

[bigwillq]

4. Glad he's fine!

:hug:

[BamaGirl]

13. Thanks!

[LeftyMom]

5. Oh you poor thing

:hug: I've got a four year old boy, too. They're something else aren't they? :eyes:

Thankfully we haven't seen the inside of an ER since he had his vax reaction at 10 months.

[BamaGirl]

12. No fear, huh?

He never stops to think, oh that might hurt. He does seem to stop and think, oh that might freak mom out! Let's do it! :wtf: is that about lol??

[LeftyMom]

20. As I tried to explain to my Dad

when he offered to buy me a gun :wtf: little boys have all the energy and curiosity in the world, but no sense of thier own mortality. This is not a good combination.

Motherhood's going to drive me to drink. :beer:

[BamaGirl]

30. Yeah

My husband is a police officer so there's no way to avoid 'em, ya know? I wouldn't let them live in the same house if it wasn't for gun safes. He gets in enough trouble. A few months ago he handcuffed his ankles together. :eyes:

They'll definitely drive you to drink. :P

[LeftyMom]

32. Mine hasn't done that

but he's run around with LeftyDad's sword once or twice.

Hint: A towel is useful in disarming four year olds armed with bladed weapons such as bread knives and bastard swords. For some reason it helps to make martial arts movie noises while you execute the terrycloth disarming maneuver.

[BamaGirl]

39. Oh my

note to self...Do not complain about the screw driver incident anymore. It could be worse!

:hug: That is more than any mom should have to deal with!

[TallahasseeGrannie]

7. Oh MY GOD

There is a special place in heaven for mother of boys like that. And if heaven doesn't exist they will have to set one up just for you.

And those chairs and rolling black stools in there. Awful. Been there too many times.

[BamaGirl]

15. Lol, I certainly hope so

I can make up for my mispent youth by raising this boy lol. :rofl: That's assuming I don't wring his neck for one of his little stunts before I get there lol.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

11. Omigod!

I'm so glad he's OK......

Are YOU? It will be hard to decompress for a little while......

Just take it easy...haha......if possible, that is....

Whew.....boys make their mothers crazy.......

:hug: :pals: :loveya:

[BamaGirl]

17. Hey Peggy

:pals: Can you believe the little twerp is asleep!? I could use a drink myself lol.

[Blue Diadem]

14. Awww..hugs for both you and your son!

:hug:

We Moms will never know what those boys are thinking when they do those things. My oldest son spent more time in Er's than I care to remember and I have the streak of white hair to always remind me. I cried at his first scar..while he was proud of it.

I'm glad your little guy is ok.

[BamaGirl]

19. Aww

:hug: I sure do love my boy, but he's one scary critter. ;) He's been asking us for the last few months if he can play football. Just don't know if I can do that, especially after today! :scared:

[Blue Diadem]

24. ah yes football...

It was a pretend football "run" that my son was doing that gave him his first scar. He tackled a metal electric fireplace--with his head. Still sports the scar above his eyebrow.

Fearless little guys. Good Luck Mom!

[BamaGirl]

28. :sigh: I knew there was a reason I was avoiding football.

:hug:

[hickman1937]

23. Lol. I cried at my son's first scar too.

By number about 15, I'd just shrug and wonder if either one of us would make it out alive.

[BamaGirl]

26. I'm wondering that now lol, and he's only a got a couple!

[Blue Diadem]

44. yep, too many to count after a while. n/t

[hickman1937]

50. And that's at 12.

By 15 I was reduced to hoping that he'd just stop hiding the wounds from me before they became infected.

[Blue Diadem]

51. OMG, my son did that too..

I caught him hiding bandages and peroxide. Come to find out his shin area was green from a hidden injury.

His wife takes him to the ER now although not as often. He's not as adventurous as he used to be now that he's a Dad.

[hickman1937]

52. Here's to our sons, and how the hell they ever survived childhood.

:toast:

[NewJeffCT]

21. glad to see he's ok

my daughter is going to be 3 in February and it's amazing how quick she is sometimes!

[BamaGirl]

27. Thanks!

My oldest daughter will be 10 in Feb. Enjoy her while she's young.

You should have heard the joke she told me today. :blush: I'm seriously thinking I'd like to go back to 3. ;)

[Pithlet]

22. Oh, no.

I'm glad he's okay and there's no permanent damage, but what an ordeal! From one mom of a 4 year old boy to another, here's a :hug: I know you need it.

[BamaGirl]

25. Ty, and back at you

:hug: Seems to be a lot of moms of 4yo boys around here lol!

[Pithlet]

35. 4 year old boys named Alex.

Mine's an Alex, too! I just noticed your boy's name in another post.

[BamaGirl]

38. Lot's of Alex's :)

Usually we call him Bubba actually. He won't answer to anything else. :eyes: We're so redneck-y lol.

[patdem]

29. Poor, Poor mom! and I was just an auntie..when my nephew

stayed with us for the summer .and fell and removed all the skin from his knee..and instead of them asking if he was okay...they got one look at me and asked if I was okay...I am just not Doctor material!

[BamaGirl]

34. Aww

:hug: Alex had such a conniption when they rubbed the dye on his eye that the poor doctor looked he was going to cry by the time he was finished. I actually felt worse for him than me lol.

[seemunkee]

31. The joys of parenting.

Glad he is doing OK.

[BamaGirl]

37. Thanks :)

[uppityperson]

33. Glad he's ok. Mine cut his ft open on an anvil.

jumped off his bed onto the anvil and called out that he needed help he was bleeding. ER and superglue fixed it up. I bought a secondhand pair of crutches when he was 12 because he kept spraining his ankle. And a batch of ace wraps. He had a permanent lump in the middle of his forehead when he was 3 from falling onto things. Hug to a mom and ER's definetely suck. No hurries there and then it takes many people to hold the kid down. sigh and hug.

[BamaGirl]

36. Oh that's awful

:hug: Alex seems to be the walking wouded most of the time. Judging by this thread it's definitely a boy thing. :(

[uppityperson]

41. Wellllll, I caused my parents trouble many times.

My mother learned the call of "mom, I'm bleeding" which was different from "Wahhhh". The latter meant someone bumped something, the first needed attention for me or a sister. Having only a boy, hard to tell what's happening now, but I could've used stitches several times, or at least superglueing, but mostly just got taped up to proudly show off my scars later. I've caught my son and his friends comparing scars. Kids.

[WCGreen]

40. Well, he's got somethin' to be proud of now....

[BamaGirl]

47. Lol, what's that?

...almost taking his eye with a screwdriver?
...freaking mom out?
...conning mom out of pizza?
...almost bringing the poor doctor to tears?
So many things to be proud of lol. ;)

[WCGreen]

56. A Big Fucking Black Eye.....

Damn it, put your mind in the body of a four year old boy....

[BamaGirl]

58. Ain't like it's the first black eye he's given himself

:eyes: I'm sure it won't be the last. :P

[WCGreen]

64. You have to teach him to stop giving himself black eyes...

[ScreamingMeemie]

42. Holy Cow!!! How scary! This Mama feels for you.

I'm glad BamaBaby is okay...take lots of pictures to tease/guilt him with later on in life. :hug:

[BamaGirl]

46. Thanks MrsG

I do think it will require embarassing pics. ;)

[tallahasseedem]

43. I am so glad he is okay.

I have been to the ER more times than I can count with my two little ones. They always manage to do something ridiculous on the off hours.

[BamaGirl]

45. They do, don't they?

What really ticked me off was he did this around 4 and our ped office has a new "no appt, we wont see you" policy, so we had to go to the ER 'cause there weren't any appts that late in the day.

[intheflow]

48. Oh, BamaGirl!

How totally scary! :hug:

I'm glad to hear he's going to be okay. And now maybe he'll listen when you warn him about running with sharp objects--"Hey, you could poke an eye out with that!"

[BamaGirl]

53. Thanks intheflow

I'm hoping he'll slow down if nothing else lol. Hey, he earned that demon spawn nickname. ;)

[sendero]

49. Believe me..

.... I can relate. My first born son has been to the ER at least 5 times. The last time, about 4 years ago, he did a header over the handlebars of his bike going downhill pretty fast.

They called in a plastic surgeon because he split the part of his lip where the lip meets skin, and it has to be sewn up perfectly or you see an "uneven line".

Well, maybe this guy was mad at having to come in on a Sat night or whatever, but he was plain brutal with my kid. My ex and I are sitting there, trying to watch this shit without going crazy. I wanted to get up and tell the bastard to get out - but I kept telling myself that he had to do it this way ... but I didn't really believe it.

One of the worst nights of my life :(

[BamaGirl]

54. Omg, that's horrible

:hug: Sometimes the staff makes it so much worse. One of my girls had surgery on her hand when she was about a year old and had to wear a cast for 2 weeks. This sucker was from shoulder to fingers. I thought I was gonna have to take the head off the guy who cut it off. What a jerk.

[gardenista]

55. Awwww, I feel for both of you. That has got to be one of the toughest

things to go through.

Poor little guy.

I'm glad it wasn't too serious.

[BamaGirl]

60. Thanks mgd :)

[Wapsie B]

57. It is frustrating going through the system at an ER.

Hurry up and wait. Unless you're pouring out blood or have a code you'll have to wait in line. Glad that he's ok.

[BamaGirl]

59. Thanks. It is frustrating

They were great, very patient with the screaming 4yo lol. I would absolutely hate to have that job.

[Wapsie B]

63. Yes, ER work can be a quick road to burnout

unless you know how to deal with all the stress and trauma. Not for me at all.

[LaraMN]

61. Gasp! How completely awful! Your poor little guy.

My kids haven't needed to go to the emergency room yet, but I'm just waiting....

[Az]

62. Some really important advice

Do not let him do that again. :D


Seriously though, glad to hear everything turned out ok. Good grief can only imagine what that was like.

[newyawker99]

65. Ouch! I am happy to hear that he is ok.

:hug: