Sheesh! What a scare!!!!

THe kids were outside playing around, having fun, I'm inside sneaking some chocolate since that is the only time I really get to savor that delicacy, when all of a sudden Joshua~2 years old~starts screeching and throwing himself on the ground! All the kids are yelling at the same time, and Joshua is still screaming, though now he's trying to get up and run to me, but every time he stands up, he immediately crumples back down, screaming and crying! It takes about 5 minutes to find out the story, finally found out that he had eaten part of one of the plants outside. Ok, we are new to OR and I am still trying to figure out what all the plants are....I jump on the 'puter get on the plant files to try and find this plant and see what the "danger" entry says. I found it right away....the flower looked like a calla lily flower, but the plants here are about 3 feet tall, I had thought that callas were just tiny, only a couple inches off the ground. Anyway, the PF said "all parts of the plant are poisonous if ingested" so right there I thought "He's dying!!!!"! Called the hospital, they had me call poison control, and long story shortened a little bit, callas are midly poisonous, they cause an intense burning sensation in the mouth and stomach if ingested but it's not fatal for most of the population, and the pain gradually fades. WHEW!!! What a scare!!! Thank goodness all is fine now!
Raven

Wow, what a scare! Glad all is okay now. : )

Have your knees stopped shaking yet? Oh my gosh! I'm so glad he is alright.

At least you knew where to look for information and what to tell poison control.
I hope he isn't in any discomfort now...

Sheila

Joshua is totally fine now, as a matter of fact, he was totally fine within a few hours of "The Incident"! :O) But, I think it added quite a few white hairs to me!!!

He ate part of the inside of the flower, (is that called the stamen?) which is really quite logical if you look at it from his point of view, it looks exactly like those little miniature baby corn looking veggie things that are in stir fry or chow mein at the chinese restaurant, so he thought he had found his own free chinese buffet!!!

Thanks for your concern Darius and Sheila, I was shaking for a while after that!

Raven

Oh, my! Glad everything turned out!!!

I've called poison control 3x now... LOL. Only laughing because it was nothing serious. Wait, actually, 4x!!! My oldest is only 4!!!

Time #1 -- Sarah Grace (age 1 year) ate some potpourri

Time #2 -- Sarah Grace (age 18 months) ate de-icer crystals that we used on the sidewalk

Time #3 (this one is funny) -- Sarah Grace (age 22 months) ate a huge chunk of bird poop

Time #4 -- Sarah Grace (age 2) ate a berried weed from the backyard, some type of nightshade

Do you see one thing in common with all of these??? You got it... Sarah Grace! LOL :)

As I said before, I am truly thankful that your son (and my daughter) are fine :) I did have a pretty rapidly beating heart when she ate that berry. I can definitely see how those knees would be shaking with your poor son crying like that. Scarey, scarey. Neat, though, isn't it how things like that make us see them in an even more precious light??? So very, very precious :)

Huga

So glad all your kiddies are ok! I only called Poison Control once with my four kids - second oldest drank some perfume and they said just watch him, if he falls asleep, wake him up every so often to check him. Perfume has some alcohol but such a small bottle wouldn't make him drunk. He was fine, smelled good for awhile too! lol

My daughter drank a half a bottle of Lavoris mouthwash when she was little. I remember having to make her drink milk and vomit!

A few years ago, her daughter was at my house and got a hold of a bottle of orange cleaner. She was sitting on the floor in the middle of it. It was all over her, you could see her all over her face and mouth. They said just to keep an eye on her, can you believe it? She never had a reaction, but she smelled really good.

I called poison control for both. Kathy

I've called poison control for both my girls. Mostly for Kaley, though. She's the type who has to touch it, break it, see inside it, etc... in order to have her curiosity satiated. The scariest event to date was the time she was 12 months old and got into my overnight bag, then into my cosmetic case, then into the box inside that, then into the blister pack and popped out one of my migraine meds. Gracious. Who would even think a baby could even do that at that age? Silly little thing was just barely toddling around. My sister and I were up until midnight at the ER where they checked her blood (no small task on a baby), gave her charcoal to drink, then checked her blood again after 4 hours. I'll be 40 years old this year and don't have a single gray hair, but it's not for this particular kiddo's lack of trying.

Wow your story made my teeth rattle. POOR little one! They are so sweet at that age too.. I am so glad everything turned out ok!!

Sarah Grace - sheewweeee bird poop?? Wait till you mommy tells you that in front of your high school boyfriend one day!!!!

LOLLLLL!~~~~~

Oh, yes :) I have a growing list of wonderful things to "share" when my dear one is a teeny bopper :)

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Oh, yes :) I have a growing list of wonderful things to "share" when my dear one is a teeny bopper :)

I think I only had to have Poison Control advice once-on me a few years ago! I do understand tho how those little ones can make you age rapidly. I'm so glad both children are ok.

Wow! All of those kids sound much braver than my little boy. He fell on the sidewalk yesterday and scraped his knees. (Not very badly but it probably stung a bit). Even last night as he went to bed he complained how he was damaged. What a difference a good night's sleep makes. As we changed the (little bitty) bandage on his knee, he commented, "At least we didn't have to call the ambulance."
So far, knock on wood, I've never had to call poison control. But then he is usually so busy talking that I have to remind (nag) him to eat. I want to enjoy a single meal where Power Ranger talk is banned.

Sheila

Glad that he is OK. It is a long list of regular garden plants that are toxic-as I was reminded yesterday, when I tilted the hellebore to admire the bloom (it is listed as only to be touched with gloves, according to the friend that I was showing it to..I think I better read that list.

Yikes, at least you were home to call the poison control center. I am such a worrier- always thought the 'sky would fall' when I left home. No wonder I am a homebody.... Glad things turned out OK

Raven - I'm happy to hear Joshua is fine now and trust you'll come down from the clouds eventually as well.
One of my daughters would grab any glass she saw and drain it.
The maid took a little glass tumbler to the store next door and got kerosene for the charcoal. Same type glass Jiena was used to getting juice in and it kind of looked like apple juice. It was within reach and she slammed it. I gave milk and we went to the local hospital (with cats and stuff running through it). They just watched her and she was fine but a little green around the gills for awhile. Pretty traumatic since she was our first but we had 3 more girls and 1 boy and no more poisonous incidents. Although I busted one girl for helping herself to chewing gum from the parking space stop and had to go to school for another girl because she was caught rescuing some favorite delicacies from the trashcan that her friend had just thrown out.

Oooooh, 8ft!!! Gum from the parking lot!!!! Oh my word, AAAACCCKK!!! Is that worse than birdpoo??

Amazing about the kerosene... unbelievable what these littles ones will throw past the gums....

You know hugahosta, thats a pretty tuff question now that I think about it.

Maybe a new test on that stupid fear factor show. A choice between scraping or pulling some 'abc' gum off the curb outside the local grocery store or a couple of mini-log rolls the resident Canadian geese leave all over.

me? I was the unofficial taste tester for the pets we had over the years. If they still make them - Do NOT buy Gains Burgers for dog. Otherwise, dry cat and dog food, horse feed (hmmm oats and molasses) even spirulina flakes from some aquarium denizens are pretty tasty. :)

My stupid moronic idiot 6 year old twins pulled a stunt yesterday that nearly had a 6 1/2 foot high glass and metal bookcase (full of books!) down on their heads. I was in the kitchen (open plan kitchen/living room) watching as my son was pulling his sister around the living area by the legs (she was laughing) and then she grabbed the legs of the bookcase to stop him, he pulled harder, she held on tighter and the bottom of the bookcase came a full foot out from where it was! The only thing holding it up were the heavy duty screws used to brace it to the wall at the top. By some miracle the whole thing didn't come crashing down. Thank god for those sturdy screws....and for the fact that DH installed it and not me! My knees buckled seeing that thing all sloped out with my daughter in a prone position on the floor right in front of it. I raced round to the bookcase, held it up (dunno how, as it weighs a ton!) by leaning against it, throwing books off of it onto the floor and yelling at the top of my lungs at them for being so stupid. When I described this last bit to my friend she replied tongue-in-cheek that "mothers are good at multi-tasking" ROTFL! In any case, I got the bookshelf back in order and they were in hot water for the rest of the day.

-Julie

oh Julie! another heart stopper.
Sometimes it what they don't tell you. We were transferring from SC to IL and stayed the last night at a friends house. We got up the next morning to find little 5 year old girl literally soaked and caked in blood and pale. She had bled so bad after climbing back in the bunk and there was such a mess that it took awhile before we could even calm down enough to determine the source. She had fell out of the bunk bed and sliced her chin open but was afraid to bother anyone. My heart still breaks when I remember that vision. She's getting a bear hug soon as she comes home. She graduates hs in May.

OMG! Poor little thing! Isn't it funny how they'll tattle on each other (or whatever) left and right until you want to pull your hair out from them "bothering" you...and then when they NEED to "bother" you, they don't! Gosh I didn't even SEE it and my heart is in my throat just imagining waking up to that scene. :-( Poor you too! I hope she hugs you right back when she gets home from school...

-Julie

Our second one also (same kiddo, perfume drinker) had a habit of climbing the bookcase shelves to the top to get Dad's combine down to play with. I found him playing with it and assumed Dad must had got it down, put it back up and found him playing with it again a few days later. Finally remembered to ask DH if he had given him the combine to play with - got an Absolutely NOT! So I started watching him when he thought I was occupied elsewhere - stinker was climbing a 6 ft bookcase to get it - one of the el-cheapo $50 ones made of fiberboard that wobbled - scared me silly, so I moved the combine. It even had a fold-down center shelf, y'know the kind to make a 'secretary' thing - now how did he get over that? I've never figured that one out and never saw him do it but I know he managed it at least 5 or 6 times!!!

This one wasn't scary but I still chuckle over it, the visual is hilarious. Same kid, with a friend (babysitting) we all came upstairs for dinner and I had to run tothe bathroom quick. When I came back into the kitchen it looked like snow poofs were dotting the floor! Oh NO! I had a can of lard out to make apple pies for the church soup supper that night and they were digging bread and butter knives into the can and then trying to scoop some out. Because of the thickness of the lard, there was a bit of resistance so they would push down hard on the handle, the tip of the knife few out of the can and a blob of lard with it - flew over their heads and landed on the middle of the kitchen floor!! They thought it was a riot!! I really wasn't impressed with them at the time, they had just dumped 6 large adult puzzles all over the basement floor an hour earlier!! What a pair they were!

ROTFL - what a visual! Can imagine mine doing that too. Visited hospital w/both (now 19+7): older- broken head (3/4 non-depressed fracture - the good kind, IF you have to have one) when 2 and younger dau- started K w/broken arm, was at the growth plate w/surgery and 3 days in hospital. Poison control for older-popped BC pills when 3. She watches her younger sister and still doesn't want kids, LOL. That is only the tip of the iceberg. Amazing that I am 49 and most of my hair is still dark brown, only a few white hairs. When preg 1st time, told someone. They said, just think, it only gets worse from here on out. ~ Suzi

Oh wow! Thanks for all the stories, it's nice to know that I'm not the only one with...let's say, "rambunctious" little ones!!!

We were up in the mountains one time with the kids, playing at a little creek, no danger of anyone drowning or anything, when my daughter, then 9, now 11, was climbing on some tree roots on the creek bank, about 7 feet up from the creek bed, (can you tell where this is going?) she took a step out onto the very edge and the whole bank gave way. I was watching, everything slowed down to slow motion for me, it was like her head was a magnet for the rocks below, she went down head first and when she hit, her whole body crumpled on top of her. It's hard to explain what it looked like, but she looked like a rag doll that you throw, and the body just kind of flops, that was what happened to Reily, it was so horrible! She was out like a light, laying in the water all crumpled, I cannot tell you how hopeless I felt at that moment!!! Here we were 40 miles from town, in a canyon, and no cell phone!!! Thank God we had onstar on the van!!! We had to drive 10 miles down out of the mountains to meet the ambulance, ACK what a fright!!!

She had a pretty large cut on the top of her head that had to have stitches, but she was totally fine! We can joke about it now, but then it was pretty darn tense!!!

Here is a picture taken just a few minutes before it happened, the tree with the circle around it between the babies is where she fell.

Raven

Loved reading all of your stories... Aren't silences sometimes scarier than noise?

When my son was 1 (now 34) after his dinner (including a few pieces of chicken for the first time) we went for a walk...he was just learning. Suddenly he did a face plant on the pavement (again!!) and had blood all over his mouth/chin. As he is screaming a bloody piece of meat fell out of his mouth and my heart stopped- his TONGUE, I thought. Nope...he was still chewing on the chicken! The chicken fell out. In the fall he had driven his little front teeth thru his lower lip!. That was the only scare...really... I still feel pale thinking about it.

It never stops... Apr 14th, I was downtown in the tax office when the school calls my cell phone. My 7 y/o had accidentally run right into her bus as it was passing her on the road-the night before, after it dropped her off. Fortunately, she wasn't hurt. They just wanted to make me aware, which is good since I found out she had told her sister, and they both f-o-r-g-o-t to tell me. A few min ago, she told me she made it almost to the top on the monkey bars, which was great cuz she "usually fell off"... h-e-l-ppppppp!

When my daughter was 12, we were at church. I was in Bible study and the kids were all having youth group in the fellowship hall. They were picking up and putting away tables and chairs. My son and another boy were picking up the table along with Moriah and she had her head bent down. The table was lighter than they all thought and so came up very quickly and smacked Moriah right in the mouth. I heard a scream and someone running down the hall and even with the door closed i knew it was my child!!! I looked at her and her beautiful front tooth was shoved right up into her gum, shattered in a zillion pieces and bleeding profusely! All I could do was cry, cry, cry....she had the most beautiful teeth, model teeth! Our dentist, just happens to go to church with us and his partner's wife was in my bible study class. We immediately went to the office and spent the next two hours pulling teeth pieces out. (while I was still crying my eyes out)....(i cried more than my daughter, she was so brave). Well, she has to wear a partial now, and just recently lost it. She always takes it out while sleeping and her husband came home for a visit (she hasn't seem him in 7 months). She forgot to take it out and lost it while sleeping. We've not been able to find it, so she spent the rest of the time with him, without her tooth. She just got her replacement and it doesn't fit right, so she is waiting for another one. i think they call this a maryland bridge. Anyhow, somethings are more traumatic for we parents than what our kids have gone through. sniff, sniff...

Ironically, also while her hubby was home, my DGD lost her first tooth. She was so frightened, (we were at a restaurant), that she asked us to immediately bring her to the dentist. ha, ha...We just told her she was trying to be like Mommy. Two days ago she lost her 2nd tooth, so now is becoming a pro at it.

I think I am more of a basketcase now than when the kids were younger. I used to think, "oh i can't wait for them to grow up" but it just doesn't work out that way. Now, I say, 'I wish they were still kids again!". Kathy

The church stories reminded me of 2nd son's faux paux - We have a small foyer in front of the steps leading into the sanctuary. I think there's 4 or 5 steps. After catechism one night, waiting for parents to arrive, the boys came up with the idea of running across the foyer, kicking the center of the double doors and whoosh, out the door they went. Well, I think u can guess where this one is going. DS thought he could get a lot more speed up if he started from the top of the steps, jumped down and kept running. It worked really well, until he got to the double doors and missed the center post - yup, went right through the glass door and landed outside in a pile of glass. Can u believe the only cut he had was a tiny dot on his wrist and a 1/4" piece of glass imbedded in his butt! Our insurance covered the door but we made him cut grass at the church for the next few weeks to make amends. I've read of people who have died falling through glass doors, still can't believe he came out almost unscathed!

When caught in a rain storm, most people think they won't get as wet by "running" from the car to the building or whatever which isn't true. Maybe that extra speed paid off when ducking glass.
Then again... there might've been a little divine intervention considering the location. ;)