A Night in the ER

[pinkcaddy]

i promise when I am feeling myself I will get into the homeschooling discussions some more. LOL

BUT.....

today my 2 1/2 year old son drank a bottle of cough syrup and I had to rush him to the ER. Apparently daddy didn't screw the cap back on the bottle very well, and while I was upstairs scrubbing a toilet, the little monster drank it like it was candy. (It *was* orange flavored)

I've never felt so scared. But as soon as we got to the hospital he started throwing up, so he got most of it out. Then I had to make him drink a carton of CHARCOAL. OMG that was the worst.

But the little bugger is still alive, and trying not to go to bed as I type this. SIGH. I'm feeling like I really dodged a bullet today.
 

[Snoopy Laura]

I had a two year old that sucked on a can of Endust, drank a bottle of Musk oil (White Musk I think?) and did one other thing that ended him up in the ER the third time in less than a month.  We did the charcoal with the musk oil.  They mixed it with a can of Sprite and he got most of it down.  I got a cute little picture of him with a charcoal mustache and beard for posterity.

Yeah, they called the MPs on me for neglect.     

His 17th birthday is this Sunday.  He's a junior in high school, taking three AP classes and looking forward to becoming an architect so his little escapade fifteen years ago didn't hurt him at all.     

They're wily little stinkers, aren't they?  I'm glad everything worked out for you. 

[Countess Beeswatter]

That must have been scary.  I am thankful everything is ok.  No matter how cautious we are, kids can find a way to get into things.  You're a great mom PC.   

My nephew, now 26,  was a little stinker.  One of his major mishaps that we always talk about is the time he swallowed a Chuck E Cheese token.  Yeah, just popped it in his mouth and swallowed.  He was rushed to the hospital and while he was there, the entire staff, one by one, kept peeking in at him.  "We just had to see the kid that swallowed a Chuck E Cheese token" they said.   They were concerned but also very amused.

They couldn't make him throw that up - so they told us what to watch out for and to check his #2s until it passed.

Oh the things those kiddies can get into!

[Sassy_C]

I'm glad he's alright! That must have been soo scary for you! Bet Dad will be more careful in the future!

My two year old ate a whole package of morning glory seeds! I called poison control and they told me that he would have need to eat a couple pounds of them to have any effect and the effect would have been similar to LSD...yeah like I know all about that! 

[pinkcaddy]

morning glory seeds? LOLLLLLL that's the first I've head of that. Didn't know they had hallucegenic (sp?) properties!!

 

[ShayinSC]

Kids are soooooooo fast!  They do stuff in the blink of an eye. 

Glad everything is okay.

[Marquise]

OMG that is horrible! And scary.  Sorry you had to make the trip to the ER but glad that everything turned out ok. 

[Velocity]

PC - I'm glad everything turned out okay! I can only imagine how scared you must have been.

My sister ate a whole bunch of wild mushrooms that were growing in our backyard when she was 4. She ate them after dinner too, so it wasn't like she was hungry. Thankfully a call to Poison Control set her straight, and she still loves mushrooms to this day...but now she knows to buy them from the store. 

[prdiva4]

Oh PC! I am sorry, I read this late!

OMG! That must have been scary! I can imagine how you felt. The other day my baby and I were playing and he was running away from me and he tripped and busted his lower lip, there was so much blood I thought I had to take him to the ER to get stitches, but after I cleaned it up it was so little, but you should've seen my hubby and I freaking out

Now, what you went through that is scary! I am glad everything turned out ok!

 

[notpinkpower]

My now 2 year old was about 9 months old when she swallowed something (to this day we don't know what) and was gasping for air.  I called 911 and they sent an ambulance because she was turning blue.  My husband was doing what the 911 operator was telling him to do to dislodge the item from her airway.  By the time the ambulance came, she was back to normal and the EMT said she didn't need to go to the hospital for observation.  Children bounce back so easily.  Glad to hear you little one is okay.

She is my little stinker, she also got into the bottle of Benadryl and tried to drink half the bottle (she didn't, I caught her in time) but she figured out how to open the child-proof lid.

[nopinkhugs]

Been there!  my now 4 yr old dd did the same thing!  She was about 2 and I had her new prescription in my purse(still in the bag/stapled together everything) I thought child proof meant that it was CHILD PROOF!  That kid came walking up to me so sticky and with the bottle I freaked when I figured out what she had done!  She started getting real sleepy and lethargic on the way to the ER, I just knew they were going to call dfacs on me!  They gave her charcoal in suringes that she pucked up all the way home!  Did I mention that she is still into everything!  Caught her washing her hands with toothpaste the other day!   

[Sassy_C]

Been there!  Did I mention that she is still into everything!  Caught her washing her hands with toothpaste the other day!  

 

Ahhh fun times! Glad she was okay!

[prettyinpink]

Wow.  After reading the posts I feel better.  My child is normal!

She's 5 and not too long ago she got into the bottle of Motrin and drank what was left which was about a dose and a half.  I still got a bit panicky.

Our best was about 5 months back when she stuck a popcorn kernel in her ear and never told me.  It was in there for 2 days and when she would go to lay down she would complain that her ear was hurting.  Finally I got her in the light and was looking at it and she giggled and said, "I think there's popcorn in there."  My mind flashed to 2 nights earlier when she and my nephew were eating popcorn.  I looked and there it was shoved way back in her ear canal.

It scared me because it was causing her pain so we headed out to the ER and they got it out.

[prdiva4]

Wow.  After reading the posts I feel better.  My child is normal!

She's 5 and not too long ago she got into the bottle of Motrin and drank what was left which was about a dose and a half.  I still got a bit panicky.

Our best was about 5 months back when she stuck a popcorn kernel in her ear and never told me.  It was in there for 2 days and when she would go to lay down she would complain that her ear was hurting.  Finally I got her in the light and was looking at it and she giggled and said, "I think there's popcorn in there."  My mind flashed to 2 nights earlier when she and my nephew were eating popcorn.  I looked and there it was shoved way back in her ear canal.

It scared me because it was causing her pain so we headed out to the ER and they got it out.

POPCORN? OMG!  

I am sorry, is nothing personal, I didn't mean to laugh at you , but is just that my hubby and I are sitting here reading all this stories and comtemplating what is coming to us!   SO your popcorn story was hilarious!

We were just at Red Robin and I gave my little stinker a teething biscuit (he is 10 and a half months) that kid bit a big piece of it and started to choke and you could imagine my husband and I freaking out because we couldn't get him out of the highchair, so my hubby open his mouth and I reached with my fingers and got it out LOL!  

We were so scared and embarrased! Oh my goodness!  

Little stinkers huh???  

[prettyinpink]

The popcorn story is hilarious!  So no worries.