Another Rotten Mom Story

[Traci]

Okay - After bashing the mom in the store parking lot - I'm sharing this with all you parents out there:

A word to the wise : NEVER let your child play with a thermometer! Even when sitting right beside you!

Last night while sitting on the couch watching tv - Emilie (age 4) came into the room with the thermometer - "I want to take my temperature Mom" - Okay, fine. So she sat beside me - put it under her arm a few times making it beep and reading me the numbers.

A moment later, she's screaming. She had put the thermometer in her EAR!

(Both girls have had their ears checked a lot lately as Aryn is battling ear infections again - So I've been taking temperatures and looking in their ears lately with a scope - Emilie confused the two instruments)

A quick trip to the urgent care center and the doctor confirms - she has ruptured her ear canal. Fortunately, no damage to the ear drum - so a week of antibiotic ear drops and she'll be fine.

But certainly a pain that could have and SHOULD have been prevented!

[Mulan]

You are NOT a rotten mom! :o

[G. Gordon Wolfe]

Also, never mix up oral and rectal thermometers! The way to tell the difference is the taste. {ba dump bump!}

[ThE BlacK ScoRpioN]

Are the kids still with the mother or are they kept in foster care??

[Pseudolus]

Kids stick things places. It happens. When I was a kid I could probably give you change for a dollar out of my nasal passages.

PS - Glad your little one's OK.

[Traci]

When I was a kid I could probably give you change for a dollar out of my nasal passages.

Why do I NOT find comfort in that!!

[bertuary]

Don't beat yourself up Traci, it happens.

Here's a good story that a friend recently told me about her little girl: She was apparently eating peanuts and (not sure how much later) her mom notices something funny sticking out of her nose. Yep, she had stuffed a peanut up each nostril! When the mom asked her why she did that, she said because they looked like boogers (which she found very funny). Kids! The mom was just glad they didn't get stuck there although she did have to resort to a tweezer to pull the one out.

[ThE BlacK ScoRpioN]

I ruptured my ear canal with a key (or so I've been told) when I was a kid. I also broke 2 thermometers (the one for the mouth and the one for the *cough*) on the bathroom floor once as a kid. First one was an accident but I enjoyed playing with liquid mercury so much that I broke the second one.

I was of course locked in the bathroom when that happened... Mom was not a happy camper.

[Cho Da]

Traci, If you feel that strongly about this mom's behavior:
http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/cb/.../rpt_abu.htm#K

Radio doctor may help as well.

:P

[Traci]

Don't beat yourself up Traci, it happens.

I know I know -

The second worst part - second to having my child in pain - was having to endure the I-told-you-so lecture from my husband - who has told me many times not to let them mess around with those! But I was sitting RIGHT THERE ....

But fortunately - this is the worst accident/emergency I've had to deal with in 4 years with 2 kids - KNOCK ON WOOD - so I think I'm doing pretty well. I think God knows that I don't do well with stuff like this - and he's taking it easy on me!