Reply to Poll: how old are your kids and how many times have they been to the ER in their life?

Forum Index » General Parenting Discussion

Reply to "Poll: how old are your kids and how many times have they been to the ER in their life?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]zero times until #3 was born...and then all within a year

ds1 (5) - ran into a fence pole and major gash under eye
ds2 (3) - slipped and hit the corner of a wall busting forehead open. i tried to take him to ped and got the "well if this was MY kid i'd want real stitches to prevent a scar instead of butterfly stitches. spent 9 hours in the ER and still had a scar
ds3 (1) - crawled onto outdoor metal plate near our front door and got 2nd degree burns on both hands.  DH was watching him (not that it couldn't have happened to me) and i still feel so so awful about it[/quote]

Ugh to the scar story / hours in the ER. My younger DD got burnt on her face when she was 1. I called the pediatrician who said, due to infection risk, I had to take her to the ER. I said “couldn’t urgent care check her?” And they said to take her to the ER, so I did. She fell asleep in her car seat on the way there and then was awake and calm when the doctor walked in. He said “she’ll be fine, it won’t even scar. Just keep it out of the sun.” I booked her with a pediatric dermatologist too, who said the same thing. It was surprising - the burn ran from her chin across her lip and her cheek - but no scar! Now and then I can see one little red mark in certain lighting, but only because I know it’s there. So I was annoyed to go to the ER, but if anything had happened (like an infection) I would have been upset I didn’t follow their advice. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics