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Been Home Five Minutes and Someone is Already Bleeding…
Author: jen7 Apr
Mondays suck, but they usually are not bloody. Daughter number 3, the dramaqueen and injury magnent lost a fight with the four year old’s head. The four year old has a hell of a coconut, obviously. Somehow they collided and Daughter No. 3 basically bit damn near through her tongue.
I hear “that scream” the one that says, someone is bleeding, and then Daughter No. 2 is running in saying D#4 smacked D#3 with her head and she is bleeding everywhere! Sure enough when the injured party stopped screaming long enough to move her feet toward my location she had blood dripping out of her mouth like a vampire.
We did the wash the mouth out routine and administered the greatest cure known to mankind; an ice cube. There isn’t much an ice cube doesn’t make feel better. Burns, bites, bumps, and bruises… all golden with a cube of ice and a dose of motrin.
Will blog some more later…. chicken chalupas for dinner! woo woo…
2 Responses for "Been Home Five Minutes and Someone is Already Bleeding…"
My DamageMagnet Spawn was The Boy. When he was about 4 we lived in Germany (former USAF here) and had a house with a narrow spiral staircase made of slick and heavily polished wood. The kids were constantly told not to run on the stairs.
Well, one day I’m coming up from the basement just in time to hear him running full speed down the stairs from the top floor. Just as the words “Stop RUNNING!” were coming out his feet—clad only in socks—went out from him when he was half way to the second landing. He back flipped completely head over heels and landed on the second landing flat on his back. I scramble up with visions of a shattered spine and certain paralysis if not death on my mind. I bent down careful not to move him and asking over and over “Are you ok!!?” Through a raspy voice strained because his wind had been knocked out of him he replied.
“Hey dad, you see that flip? Cool huh?”
Total injuries were hurt pride, knocked out wind and my near heart attack. How he has survived to 19 I’ll never know.
Our last bloody mouth incident was a Ripstick injury. #2 fell and busted his lip on his teeth. He lay in the street crying like a little girl until I got to him. It actually looked okay just bled profusely. He didn’t even want ice. He went to bed later and woke up looking like Raging Bull! It looked like he’d been bitch slapped with brass knuckles. I thought for sure the school was gonna send CPS. He’s back to beautiful, now.
CPS must have a file on us, though. We once went to the ER twice in three days for facial lacerations on two different boys - I just KNEW they thought we were beating them. The saving grace was the same male nurse was on duty both times and he’s the father of four boys himself. He knows how it is.
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