pocket_amazon and i just had our first visit to the e.r. as parents. the tinyness walked onto the floor heater grate and ended up burning her little souls. lots of crying, but mostly 1st (and few 2nd) degree burns. seems to be in much better spirits this evening (long nap + tylenol/codiene) though. i guess we've passed a milestone.

souls = soles ... but it sure felt like it was her soul.

Hy first visit was when boy #2 split his eyebrow open when he tried to dive into the mosh pit that was day care - 3 stitches and he was fine but still a HORRIBLE phone call to take at work - good thing hubby was there to remind me to breathe.

Yikes! I cringed reading your post. I hope you all get a good night's sleep. Did the doc prescribe codiene for the lot of you?

This puts my Dude's black eye in perspective. He was signing cowboy songs from the top of the pre-school playground and lost his footing, like the troubadors of yore.

Take care!

You poor things! The first ER trip is indeed a milestone. I've heard of so many kids being burned in just the same way.

Oooh - youch! Poor baby. We've never been to the e.r. for injury - only illness. I hope you all recover quickly.

Mo's first trip happened a few months shy of his second birthday. We were living in Ohio while Sailor worked as Props Master of the Ohio Light Opera.

Sailor and Mo were roughhousing in the living room and Mo took a header into the corner of a desk.

I had to shove Sailor out the door for a show while I took Mo to the er. We waited for two hours before we even got into an exam room. Meanwhile Mo wanted to play and run around and his forhead was oozing blood.

He ended up getting 6 stitches and he's got a cool Harry Potter scar now.

Youch! Poor mom and dad! I'm sure you guys were more freaked out than the little one! Hope her teeny feet feel better soon!

We had a floor furnace (like a floor register, but 2'x3')at our old house, and we ended up building a little fence around it to keep small feet away because we were afraid of that exact thing happening. It's probably not possible to build something like that on the little registers.

Our first ER visit was when Alex took a header at a full sprint into the edge of a door. They glued him back together and now he also has a Harry Potter.

we went to ER with Beanie when she was very new and tiny because we thought she was choking a lot, but it turned out we are just ervous parents. (Embarra!)

ellie- we have the 2x3 ft. thing you are talking about... we rent and it's in an akward part of the house so we didn't really know what to do and she had always left it alone. but the cat walks along the back of it next to the wall and i think was just to tempting this time. our landlords have been really sweet and promised to find something that will fence it off for us- which we probably should have asked for in the fist place. stupid hindsight.

Awww, poor kiddo! I hope she's better soon!

For us, visits for our kids so far (knocking on wood, throwing salt over my shoulder with crossed fingers) was for B's croup after his MMR shot, and another time to X-Ray his foot when he pulled the TV down onto it. I'm still not sure how he managed that - it weighed more than he did!

I however, have a long and sordid history with ER's. First visit was when I was under a year old and a clothing iron fell on my hand and burned the crap out of it. I still have a ginormous scar on my left hand. Second was for when I was playing 'horsie' with my older sister and she dumped me headfirst onto the corner of the coffee table. I needed stitches for that one - apparently blood was spraying everywhere. Third trip (that I remember) was for a fall on an unfinished patch of asphalt that exposed my knee cap. Another trip for a bad contusion to the leg that required crutches, then another for more stitches (hand), another trip for ANOTHER contusion where it was discovered I had a chip of bone missing from my knee, and then as I grew out of my klutziness (a little) I went for illnesses - both pregnancies required trips for dehydration, and then again later for bad bouts of gastroenteritis that also left me dehydrated.

I should review ER's for a living, like some people review hotels.

Poor Tinyness! I hope you all are okay!

The Daughter fell down an the entire flight of stairs in our house when she was one day past her first birthday. I flew down after her, falling the last 5-6 steps as well and I almost landed on her. Daughter was shocked and got a little too quiet for my liking so I called 911 and they sent us in an ambulance to the hospital. What was really great was the campus police at UVa went on a mad search for my husband until they found him and drove him to the hospital. Daughter was just fine--they kept us until she was crying because she was hungry and tired and wanted to go home. I sprained my ankle.

If I had known before the fall how often kids fall down stairs and how they are almost always fine, I probably would've forgone the hospital trip. But, it was a pretty horrific thing to watch you baby bounce down the stairs, her head hitting each stair on the way down.

I wish you all a quick recovery!

Lady Grey - I fell down my stairs when I was 18 and broke my tailbone. Consequently, I was terrified that GirlWho would fall down stairs as a baby/toddler and break her neck. I taught her to go down them on her bottom. Yeah, I was a paranoid freak.

man i used to love going down our stais on my botom. drove my mother crazy though. (probably cos of running back up immediately i got to the bottom, so as to repeat the process. i miss stairs.)

Lea - omg, that's more injuries than we had altogether in a house with six kids, and I thought WE were clumsy. the best i've got that was a true emergency is when my step-sister convinced my 5yo sister to jump on he trampoline with her eyes shut, cos it was "more fun". blood everywhere, many stitches, we thought at first she'd lost an eye, cos of how the blood was pouring (but it was only her forehead thank god.)

my brother cut his cornea with a pair of scissors when he was 5, not from running with them, just general kid-dicking around - i know, cos i was there, and it was horrible. i am scissor-nazi now, freak out if people wave them around (yet i'm fine with swords, it's weird.)

my step-bro went to ER when he was about 5 (seems to be the magic number) cos he'd been lying on his back in bed and holding a large bead in his hand while picking his nose; in fairly short order the bead was deeply embedded up one nostril. he did the same thing again 2 months later with a mothball.

GirlWho almost lost her eye two years ago. She somehow stuck a wire hanger almost one inch into her eye in between the tear duct and the eyeball. She cried blood all the way to the hospital. The doctor said had the hanger gone a millimeter in either direction, she would have lost either her eye, her tear duct, or the use of the muscles around her eye. She wasn't playing with the hanger, she was handing it to me. We have no idea how it happened. When we got home from the hospital, I pulled a Mommy Dearest - NO MORE WIRE HANGERS!

He stuck a mothball up his nose? Ew. My brother crammed a raisin up his - they had to pull it out at the ER.

yipes, i am so not good with blood, i'm really glad BiL has a high tolerance for gore. His dad volunteers for the royal ambulance, and he has certificates in first aid because you have to if you're going to teach karate. For which i'm eternally grateful, because i really can't get the hang of CPR and any of that stuff... i'm more of the nutrition, massage and detox kind of school, hopeless with hardware faults.

my brother didn't lose the eye but he lost more than 50% of the use of it because it's scarred across the centre of his vision. You can't tell by looking at him, but because of the scarring he's spent most of his life with it slightly shut, to favour the good eye. It means he has the same expression as Paris Hilton. Making me think that at some point she's taken a pair of scissors to the face.

yep, I'm not the most graceful sort. AlphaGeek is laughing at me right now, and telling me to make sure y'all know that he's NEVER been to the ER. Of course, his family were the types to say, "oh it'll make a man out of ya!" and lots of stuff along those lines.

Bol, that doesn't include injuries I've gotten where I probably should have gone in but didn't...there's a number of head injuries in there. That could explain a few things.

shredd and pocket_amazon - updates?

ahh- she is a tough cookie, up and running around today. and been pretty patient with the cleaning and antibiotic cream applying to her little feet. just going to bed now.

somehow the tinyness has been *more* energetic and playful today than she normally is. go figure ...

Just popped in to say so sorry about tinyness accident. Sounds like she is making a quick recovery!

Poor Doodle! I hope you guys are all okay now - the first trip to the ER is the toughest. Hang in there.