Anyone had any minor disasters over the holidays?

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Baiting Guru Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 2628

There was no public transport running near my in laws so I had to stay sober and drive the clan around

On the good side no one was ill in hospital, no funerals, no burglaries, no kids came down with chickenpox- all of which have happened to us in the past

Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 9:16 pm

@Sp - I hate to say this from prior experience - see a dentist - I am almost willing to bet it will require a Root Canal - they dont hurt to have the procedure done - just hurts to need!

But hell give yah some antibotics and (stay away you know who!!) Vicadin or a similar pain meds (or if you call the after hours number may call it in)

Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 9:53 pm

I have not seen a dentist for over 10 years and I can assure you that the pain will die away. Just ignore it as best you can, it does not last longer than a week. The problem is that after a few years, the tooth will fall out though Confused

Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 10:08 pm

Problem is SP, if you ignore it you could end up looking like Shane McGowan

Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 10:23 pm

Haha....I love the Pogues.
and that pic of Shane could be useful in a romance bait too Twisted Evil

Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 11:12 pm

I stepped in a puddle Sad

Not quite a Newb Joined: 23 Dec 2007 Posts: 76

^^^^^^
LMAO

Trophy Videos · Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 12:21 am

looking at that pic ruined my dinner....now i don't want dessert! thanks.

Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 12:22 am

^^ or oil of cloves - just keep it away from soft tissue (you'll see why..)

Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 4:01 am

How a bout thankgiving dinner in a hospital? This sunday it's my wife's turn at hospital food. So much fun! The Morphine is better.

Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 9:15 pm

Well, so far my uncle died just before the festive season, youngest daughter had knee surgery on 21st (my birthday!), close friend had a minor stroke on 23rd & wife lost a crown on Xmas day.

Following the death of the dog last year, me spending a week in bed with 'flu from Xmas eve the year before & wife having appendix out a couple of years before that I don't think we'll bother with Xmas again! Crying or Very sad

Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 3:29 am

Picked up a nasty case of the flu somewhere, maybe the hospital I work at, I dont know. All I know is I dont want to relive that nastiness anytime soon.

Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 4:53 am

Had to take my youngest (almost 3) to the ER tonight after he fell playing on the bed upstairs (of course the other 2 didn't see anything Rolling Eyes

) to get 4 stitches to close the deep gash above his right eye. He did very well and didn't cry until it came time to close him up. My proudest moment, when being replaced by a nurse in the waiting room to watch my two older kids because he wanted me with him. Very Happy

Nice to see him ask for daddy when it's usually mommy who gets this type of stuff. Wink

Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 5:27 am

OD

My lil girl always wants me when it comes to medicine taking, doctors office or ER visits. It makes the X-wife a lil crazy when she has to call me and have me come over and get our daughter to take her medication. It is the best feeling in the world though, knowing that I am the one she wants when she is sick or scared.

Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 8:40 pm

Sending Christmas cards to each of my sisters, making a rather uncharitable comment about the one sister's husband to the other sister, and putting the cards in the wrong envelopes.

Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 8:55 pm

justicebdone wrote:

... My lil girl always wants me when it comes to ... ER visits. ...

Visits? Plural?

How often does your lil girl have to be rushed to an ER? Shocked

Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 1:15 am

@Justice - I'm usually at work during the doc visits so my kids are used to mom being there for them. I was shocked when the nurse came to get me. My first instinct was "oh crap, must be DCF thinking I beat the kid or something..."

Plural? Sounds like my family. I'm starting to think they financed the ER room update on my family sometimes! Wife cut thumb opening can of tuna, kids just being dumb swinging buckets to chip a tooth, an overtired 2 year old just punching his sister in the mouth for no reason to rebreak that took a year later; fingers closed in doors, ... thank god for insurance! Very Happy

Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 1:56 am

Reprob8 wrote:

Not really a disaster but kinda gross - I went to my boss's house for a cpl hours and her 5 year old son came up to me and asked if I wanted a peanut. I said yes, he gave me one, I ate it. He repeated this a few times before I realized he was picking up a salted peanut from a dish, sticking it in his mouth to get all the salt from it, then giving it to me.

Reminds me of my father, not a Christmas story but. My family is cat mad. When the were still together my parents used to keep a cat litter in their bed room - the litter was made up of fine gravel. One cat used to need it. My father used to eat whole (large) packets of peanuts in bed. If he saw a peanut lying in bed, he would wolf it down. One evening he saw a fragment of peanut in their bed, he picked it up and put it staight into his mouth, crunched on it and discovered that the 'peanut' was a bit of cat litter.

What amazed the rest of the family wasn't that he tried to eat the cat litter, but he told us the story in the first place.

Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 2:19 am

KD and OD

First off I am not hurting my little girl, no Munchausen by Proxy here. I work in an ED so my ex-wife brings my daughter to visit pretty often. Besides that, the 6 year old is very active . . . nice scar on her forehead from a fall, bumps and a nasty sprain from rock climbing with me, then a nice head smash with another player on her first soccer team.
Allow me to brag for just a minute . . . my little girl is tough like her daddy Very Happy

It drives my exwife CRAZY. I feel bad for my ex sometimes she has to live with a little copy of me Wink

Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 2:32 am

^^^^ Ahh, I see. It's a case of inflationary terminology, which is very common these days.

I'm confusing 'emergency' (as in heart attack, multiple gun shot wounds, massive stroke, etc.) with 'out-patient' (as in scrapes, stitches, and sprained ankles).

Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 4:04 am

^^KD

Ahhh if people only used the ED for actual Emergencies. That would be Utopian! I know for a fact I wouldn't arrest near as many idiots.

In reality, only the sprain and the head gash needed ED attention due to time of day and severity. Some of the other bumps and bruises could have been handled at her Pediatritian but it was just faster to slip her in the back door of the ED get the quick once over from the Doc and bolt right back out, no muss no fuss . . . No COPAY. Kind of a perk for keeping the ED staff safe and secure.

Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 8:59 pm

Two days before we had a houseful of people come the bathtub sprung a leak. (the thing is older than me and there were rust spts in it) We stuck epoxy in the holes, a bucket in the basement, and told everyone to make the showers quick ones.

We had the typical christmas day toilet overflow as well.

Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 1:14 am

I take Coumadin (a blood thinner) for a health condition. On Christmas Eve I accidently cut myself when I was deboning a chicken so I had to go to the emergency room cause I was basically bleeding to death. They gave me morphine which is a wonderful drug. Hunky good looking orderly asked me to stop singing Christmas caroles at the top of my lungs. I told him to kiss my ###. Asked Santa to give me more morphine for Christmas but he crapped out. Anyway I spent Christmas day with a huge bandage on my hand, couldn't cook the chicken so I ordered pizza. Dang rat poison!

Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 1:32 am

" Hark the Hearald Angeles sing, Call for Pizza with a hand gushing rat poison, tell the orderly to kiss your @##, all of this for x mas mass"! Sorry Dude.

Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 2:32 am

JoeTam wrote:

" Hark the Hearald Angeles sing, Call for Pizza with a hand gushing rat poison, tell the orderly to kiss your @##, all of this for x mas mass"! Sorry Dude.

LOL You truly captured the moment. Laughing

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