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Ever stuck a Lego up your Nose (real life vanity)
Self | 10-21-05 | Myself

Posted on 10/21/2005 6:58:46 PM PDT by LowOiL

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To: pburiak

Wow, I don't really know what I'm in for then! When my daughter was 1 1/2, she found a wine bottle filled with candle oil. I still don't know how she managed to drink it, but my husband looked down (yep, he was right there!) and saw her with the bottle and asked my what was in it. I looked at the bottle and thought, oh my god, I hope that's wine... but it wasn't.

My husband called Poison Control who told us that she wasn't going to die from it, but to take her to the hospital if she started coughing violently. She didn't, BUT she did start coughing and we got scared, so we took her to the hospital anyway. They did an XRay on her to make sure she hadn't aspirated any of the oil into her lungs.

Lo and behold, the XRay showed that she had very early stage Pneumonia. We were pretty shocked because she had no symptoms. Then we had to tell the doctor why we brought her in. He laughed at us, and told us that candle oil isn't going to kill her, but that it was a good thing we brought her in becuase the Pneumonia would have made her very sick.

You just never know.

Then there's the ice cream incident...

I left some ice cream on the counter and it melted so we tossed it. My daughter decided to get it out of the garbage, and she drops it on the kitchen floor. Melted ice cream EVERYWHERE! So I go to get the mop, and come back to find my dogs and little girl on her belly licking up the melted ice cream! I couldn't help but laugh, it was the funniest sight!

BUT...

My husband later that week was mopping the floor, and my daughter tried to pull the same trick with the Pine Sol. Fortunately, we realized what she was trying to do BEFORE she got to taste the cleaner.

Ah, Kids!


61 posted on 10/24/2005 9:29:24 AM PDT by P-Chan Penny (Eat a toad for breakfast.... it's the worst thing that will happen to you all day!)
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To: LowOiL
The lego's have been locked up for now.

ROFL! Glad your kid is okay!

Can't remember anyone in my family losing a round of orifice roulette, but one of my daughters did swallow a quarter when she was small.

Unless you're counting accidentally hurting yourself.......then there's PLENTY! :)

62 posted on 10/24/2005 9:37:09 AM PDT by MamaTexan (~ I am NOT a 'legal entity'....... nor am I a 'person' as created by law ~)
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To: Big Giant Head

Fix that window!! My sister had a window that was propped with a stick - her son (was two at the time) pulled the stick out and the window crashed onto his thumb, severing a portion of it off. I will never forger that horrible day. Who would have known that a window could do that?


63 posted on 10/24/2005 10:01:15 AM PDT by Shyla
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To: pburiak
Your kids sound like mine. About two weeks after we brought our adopted sons home (5 and 6 six years old), they were playing on the wonderful new swingset we got for them. The really nice one, made out of cedar 4x4's. Older brother decided to play "helicopter" with the younger one - made him lie on his stomach on the swing and wound him up. Our neighbor over the fence said she heard something like a pumpkin being hit with a baseball bat and looked over the fence to see son #2 splayed out on the ground, out cold after spinning his head into the cedar 4x4. I always thought "goose egg" was a figure of speech - its not. We got some looks from the emergency room folks that day, but fortunately, my wife's sister is an ER nurse so we dropped her name and got a pass.

Sons 1 and 2 got into a sword fight with sticks. This time it was son 1 who made the trip to the hospital - impaled through the leg by the jaunty lunge of his brother. 28 stitches (including muscles!). Let's move on.

Innocent two year old daughter puts the eraser from the end of a pencil up her nose. Tweezers don't work. A straw duct-taped to the end of the vacuum cleaner hose didn't work either (that was my idea - I could have sworn that was going to do it...). Nurse at hospital teaches daughter to close nostril and blow. The eraser flew 15 feet according to the nurse. Not bad for a little kid.

64 posted on 10/24/2005 10:01:34 AM PDT by Ol' Sox
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To: Ol' Sox
Oh yeah - I forgot to mention the time that son 2 swallowed two pennies and started puking and choking in the back seat while I was driving 65 mph on I-95 with a big tractor-trailer right behind me.

I went noticably gray that very day, according to my wife.

65 posted on 10/24/2005 10:07:16 AM PDT by Ol' Sox
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To: LowOiL

My mother-in-law is a pediatric nurse, and she has many stories to tell. Of course, our children have done quite enough of shoving things in different orifices, but I don't want to think about our youngest two doing anything similar at this moment, so I won't mention our personal stories. However, m-i-l told us one of the funniest incidences they had at their office. I guess this little boy decided to shove a Matchbox car up his nostril. Somehow, he managed to do it, and of course, it got stuck. Mom and Dad try to figure out how to get the car out to no avail. I guess they took the kid in, and the car was removed. When they got home, Dad's curiosity overtook him. He wanted to know how the kid could get a Matchbox car up his nose, so he tried it himself. Voila! He did it, too! And it got stuck. lol. He had to go to the emergency room with a toy car stuck up his nose, and they had to do surgery to get it out. Not a lot of brains in that family. lol


66 posted on 10/24/2005 10:17:25 AM PDT by petitfour
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To: LowOiL; cyborg

When I was really young, I found a pretty green bead. Now, I knew my parents would never let me keep it because it was dangerous and I wasn't allowed to have small stuff. But I knew I could handle it safely, so I decided to find a hiding place.

What better hiding place than one that's always with me? Perfect! ...and up my nose it went.

My pediatrician removed it with tweezers. Surprisingly, once it was retrieved, my parents wouldn't let me keep it(!). Go figure.


67 posted on 10/24/2005 10:22:34 AM PDT by Petronski (The name "cyborg" to me means complete love and incredible fun. I'm filled with joy.)
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Hubby's exboss's 3-year-old (at the time) decided he would go to his friend's house to play. The problem was that the friend lived several blocks away and on the other side of a very high traffic intersection. The child left his house on his tricycle BUCK NAKED except for the cowboy hat on his head. He then crossed the major intersection, and I'm not sure exactly how the child was found by his parents. I could never get past the naked child crossing the major intersection on the tricycle part. The child is still alive today. He must be around six or seven.


68 posted on 10/24/2005 10:23:57 AM PDT by petitfour
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To: Ol' Sox
...Older brother decided to play "helicopter" with the younger one - made him lie on his stomach on the swing and wound him up. Our neighbor over the fence said she heard something like a pumpkin being hit with a baseball bat and looked over the fence to see son #2 splayed out on the ground, out cold after spinning his head into the cedar 4x4....

I actually did laugh out loud at that. I KNEW what was coming...

69 posted on 10/24/2005 10:28:35 AM PDT by Petronski (The name "cyborg" to me means complete love and incredible fun. I'm filled with joy.)
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