I get so MAD!

April 12th, 2005 at 10:55pm Posted by Bill

Brother Gabe’s recent tale of injured child woe got me to thinking of all the times my kids have been hurt. So, I thought I’d compile a list for all the readers who may not have anything better to do than to read depressing things like this. Ready? Here we go:

Billy:
* Stitches in his lower lip, both inside his mouth and outside.
He was just learning to walk, and expressing his new found independence by refusing to hold our hand as we walked up the stairs to our second-floor apartment. He slipped, hit his mouth on the concrete step, and pierced his lip with his only two bottom teeth. The worst part was when the ER doc numbed his mouth in preperation for the stitches, and Billy, freaking out strapped down to a back board, started biting through his lip and causing even more damage.

* Stitches in the forehead.
Billy decided to do a Superman off the arm of the couch onto the edge of the coffee table. The lesson we learned? Coffee tables with sharp edges and pointy corners don’t go well with hyperactive two year-olds.

* Broke his big toe.
This happened in his yoga class this school year at Beaverton High. In his YOGA class.

Matt:

* Broke his collarbone.
He fell out of a tire swing when he was around two years old. He wasn’t talking yet, and so couldn’t explain his pain to us. It was only after we insisted on an x-ray at our second visit to the hospital that Kaiser finally agreed, and discovered the fracture. We have not had Kaiser since then.

* Broke the pinky toe on his right foot.
He stubbed it on the table as he was running in the living room back in November. Here are some gross pictures:

* Stitches in his forehead.
Billy pushed him down, but luckily the knob to the dresser drawer broke his fall by making solid contact with his head.

Lexi:

* Broke her pinky finger.
Billy shut his bedroom door not realizing that her finger was in the hinge side of the door. Later he mentioned that he wondered why the door didn’t shut easily and why he had to use so much force to shut it, and why Lexi was screaming the whole time.

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