Vote Me Off The Island — please?
June 9, 2006 | Filed under: Stuff
It’s been awhile since we’ve paid homage to the local hospital emergency department here. Or should I say the place where my middle daughter has her own cubicle with a sign over that says THIS WING OF THE HOSPITAL BUILT IN THANKS TO SHALVIS FUNDING.
We reacquainted ourselves with the ER the other night when my middle daughter once again injured herself. This time it was her motorcycle (dirt bike). She was riding in the woods outside our house, and when I say riding, I should really say flying. The dirt bike was never my idea, by the way. A quad . . . okay. It has four wheels, how bad it could be. But a bike – definitely the husband’s idea.
Can you all say Dead Husband Walking?
Anyway, her foot slipped and she bashed it into a rock, and it’s not pretty. I was sitting on the trampoline reading People, listening to her loop the woods to keep an eye on her when she rode up to me.
“Mom, don’t get mad.”
Never a good way to start a sentence. I immediately looked her over. No blood. “You didn’t crash, I didn’t see you crash.”
“Not exactly.” She got off the bike and collapsed to the ground. “Just hit a rock, that’s all. You said you wouldn’t be mad, remember?”
Mad? Who had time for mad with this kid? I live in fear not anger. “Get the keys to the car,” I yelled up to the youngest, who was sitting on the deck wearing her tiara and doing her homework. An angel. Why hadn’t I had THREE angels? “Hurry!” I could already tell this was a directly to the hospital thing.
We took off the middle’s boot and all gasped in collective horror. Want to join me?
Turns out she’s going to be fine, after some pretty severe soft tissue damage heals itself. In the meantime, she’s on crutches. Which haven’t slowed her down any. After a few hours in the ER, we pulled back into the driveway and looked out into the woods where the dirt bike still lay on its side in the dirt. “I’ll get it,” she said.
“Really?” I asked. “How?”
“Oh, I can ride with a broken foot, no problem. The cast will let me ride even better than before because now my foot can’t get hurt.” She hugged me. “Don’t worry, mom. I’m still good as new.”
Oh. Good to know. If anyone needs me, I’ll just be tearing out my hair, thank you very much.
Posted by Jill @ 1:00 am | Make a Comment
Alicia says:
OMG.
Jill, your poor girl. I’ve done the *exact* same damage to my foot, and it hurts like… well, a lot 
She’s so brave for trying to comfort you, but the shock and panic you must’ve been feeling – I’m in total empathy.
Hope she heals quickly. Take care. Lots of hugs to you both.
Posted on June 9th, 2006 at 1:09 amKate Hardy says:
Jill – gasping with you. Can imagine my eldest doing something like that.
Hugs to you both. Hope the tissue damage heals very, very quickly.
Posted on June 9th, 2006 at 2:37 ameve says:
Poor thing (you) and I thought boys were supposed to be the hard ones to raise. I hope the foot gets better. I’ve heard that the Zsa Zsa Gabor wigs are pretty good.
Posted on June 9th, 2006 at 3:58 amStacy ~ says:
Good Lord, kids will be the death of us. So glad she’s okay. Girls are just as wild as the boys. Hugs to you…
Posted on June 9th, 2006 at 4:38 amMadison says:
Gracious day in the morning, and wanted to get right back on, now she’s a trooper! But bless her heart she has no idea how stressed you’re going to be every time she looks at that bike. It’s scary as pooh to let them grow up to start with, but then when they get hurt, yikes double yikes. Hope it heals well.
That reminds me, no dirt bike for either of my two. (writes down mental note)
Have a great weekend.:wink:
Posted on June 9th, 2006 at 5:17 amCarolyn A. says:
Hope your daughter is feeling better! It’s so scary when they hurt themselves and need an ER visit. You seem to handle it very well – all the experience I guess.
Posted on June 9th, 2006 at 5:36 amJudy F says:
Oh Jill (note to Self send cookies) I hope she gets better soon. Man that had to hurt. Sending you hugs and bubble wrap for the kids. ((((hugs)))
Posted on June 9th, 2006 at 5:41 amMargaret McDonagh says:
OUCH!!!!!! So sorry. I hope your middle daughter will soon be fighting fit again – although that may not be such a good thing for your nerves with her back to full speed!!!
Best wishes,
Posted on June 9th, 2006 at 5:41 amMags
Dennie says:
OH MY :shocked: OH MY… Jill, you poor thing – er ah I mean middle daughter, you poor thing… :sick:
Posted on June 9th, 2006 at 5:44 amAngie says:
Boy! She did it up right, huh??
Posted on June 9th, 2006 at 6:04 amI feel your pain, sista. :sick:
My younger son is like that. Only we say the staff at the local acute care center has the door open and waiting with his chart on the counter when they see us pull in. I can’t be positive, but I believe we funded their new xray machine. The one with the little brass plaque dedicated in my son’s name….
Thanks to skateboards, bicycles, and shoes with wheels in the heel, we have dealt with 2 concussions, soft tissue contusions, and a six inch laceration above his knee that split open clear down to the kneecap. We could actually see the bone. :yuck:
This is the kid we nicknamed “Runs With Scissors”…God love ‘im!
Melissa says:
Hope her foot heals quickly. A cookie a day keeps the doctor away.
Posted on June 9th, 2006 at 6:23 amMarcy says:
{{{Jill}}} Take deep breaths. :relieved:
Posted on June 9th, 2006 at 6:48 amKelley says:
OMG! She’s a tough little cookie, isnt she? Looks like it hurt!
Posted on June 9th, 2006 at 8:07 amToni Anderson says:
OMG! She’s a brave girl. I think she probably gets her sensible genes from her dad :shocked: :fryingpan:
Posted on June 9th, 2006 at 8:11 amKaren says:
I gasped out loud at the sight of that! My goodness, I hope she’s not in too much pain.
We have quads by the way, and my son rolled his! Luckily enough he was fine. Bumped and bruised but fine. These kids…
Posted on June 9th, 2006 at 8:14 amSusan says:
Your daughter and I could have been sisters! I had every much the same attitude as she does. Sending hugs from my mom!:rotfl:
Posted on June 9th, 2006 at 8:57 amButterflyLane says:
Ouch. Poor kiddo- and definitely Poor Jill!
My little sister was like that- in her first 13 years she:
broke her arm four times (or was it five?)- once a compound fracture that required pins in her elbow (at 6),
fractured a bone in her foot on the swingset (at 2),
bit her tongue almost in two falling down the stairs (18 mos),
and lost part of her fingertip (and temporarily her fingernail) when it got smashed by a hammer (at 3). (Whose brilliant idea it was to let two 3 year olds smash bricks with a hammer for fun I don’t remember, but I’m guessing it was Dad.)
And, of course, that doesn’t count the times she didn’t get hurt- like the time she rolled the old Escort Dad let them drive in the pasture, or the times she flipped the four-wheeler, wrecked her bik, fell out of a tree or down the stairs, or the times she fell off of the horse… it’s a wonder she lived through her childhood (and that my parents didn’t go bankrupt).
Posted on June 9th, 2006 at 9:05 amMay says:
That happened to me too.
But I wasn’t even doing anything nearly that dangerous.
I walked into the kitchen, the floor wasn’t wet/slippery/greasy, and slipped. Voila, hematoma and i couldn’t wear any of my shoes for a week.
Posted on June 9th, 2006 at 9:09 amZara says:
OUCH! I hope her little foot gets better soon! I’m sure it will. I also hope you recover from your scare soon lol! :yes:
Posted on June 9th, 2006 at 9:35 amKIM H says:
wow, i remember when i had a cut on my big toe it hurt like hell. i still have a scar to prove it.:hissyfit:
Posted on June 9th, 2006 at 9:38 amjeanne says:
How anyone survives childhood is beyond me (and that means parents too). It’s when I started turning grey lol.
Posted on June 9th, 2006 at 10:51 amLis says:
Youch!! That looks mighty painful
Posted on June 9th, 2006 at 11:15 amHope she heals quick!
Donna M says:
OUCH! Glad your daughter will be okay.
Posted on June 9th, 2006 at 11:55 amI’m not sure who suffers children growing up more –the parents or the children.:smile: This calls for cookies.
Once they become adults it is easier–somewhat easier, cause then there is the grandchildren when they come along. My oldest grandson rides a bike all over a very busy small city where he lives. I recently found out he has been hit by cars more than once! Ouch, I told him didn’t want to hear about that. Horrible things come into my mind knowing that. Thanksfully he has only suffered bruises.
Estella Kissell says:
Sometimes girls are worse than boys about getting hurt. I guess they must be trying to prove something.
Posted on June 9th, 2006 at 12:09 pmjulie says:
I don’t mean to complain but you’re really ruining my fantasy that girls are easier to raise than boys. Please stop I am not ready for reality yet. Just kidding I hope you and your daughter get better soon.
Posted on June 9th, 2006 at 1:03 pmBrandy says:
Good grief! My 11 yr. old Daughter has been begging for one of those and we have held firm so far, think this will be a prime example to show Dh for a big ‘ol NO! As for accident prone *sigh* my 4 year old should wear a helmet. He seems to have a bullseye on his forehead he’s always falling and hurting the same spot. He got my klutz gene!
Posted on June 9th, 2006 at 3:17 pmHope your Daughter feels better soon. Sounds like her Mom needs to self medicate her nerves with some COOKIES.
Mechele Armstrong says:
You’re poor daughter.
My youngest and her would get along just fine :rolleyes:
Posted on June 9th, 2006 at 3:59 pmJayde says:
….ouch.
*shudder* I never did mention that feet freak me out when they don’t look…normal, did I? (I think it stems from the fact that I myself have hurt my ankle(s) so many times that when I do it now, my foot truns… pretty colors.)
I hope that she feels better soon.
-Jayde
Posted on June 9th, 2006 at 4:50 pmruby55 says:
Yikes! Poor you and her. It’s a wonder you aren’t an entire nervous wreck with so many hospital visits and injuries to yourself and the rest of the family. I always thought boys were the difficult ones too. I don’t what my parents would say. I know that #2 (a boy) certainly made the most problems but then, when I now think back, it can’t have been much fun or less worry to have to go through all kinds of illnesses with me. The two younger ones had their share of problems too: #3, another boy, with injuries like cutting 3 of his fingers in a power-saw while building a cage for his guinea pig or once tangling badly with the spokes of his bike (regular kind)–though not as many it seems as middle’s. The youngest one, a girl? She’d get homesick so easily she wouldn’t even stick out a night at her girlfriend’s down the street. I think she had a kidney infection. But then, by the time these three were more than just babies, I was mostly no longer home.
It seems the second children want to prove something in whatever way they can think of. I know my sister’s #2 of 2 boys, a girl and another boy, was always very daring and ended up with injuries or at least had to fall in the lake 3 times and almost drown before he realized “Hey, this can be dangerous.”
But she says she had fewer problems with all 3 boys put together than with the lone girl all by herself.
Hugs.
Posted on June 9th, 2006 at 6:37 pmJudy F says:
Just checking in to see how she is doing today. Hope better. Hugs to you.
Ps your bookmarks went like hotcakes last night at the get together.
Posted on June 10th, 2006 at 5:44 amNicole says:
Owwwwwww! At least she’s pretty much okay. No loss of any limbs.
Yet.
Posted on June 10th, 2006 at 5:45 amDebby says:
Kids do much better at this than we do. Good Luck!
Posted on June 11th, 2006 at 2:24 pmCynthia says:
Oh, ouch! That’s horrible. Hope her foot heals quickly! Poor girl. And poor Jill, too, for having another ‘emergency room moment’.
Posted on June 11th, 2006 at 3:41 pmLoretta says:
All I can say is OUCH!
your girl is one tough cookie!!!
I’m glad she doesn’t see this slowing her down. But OUCH!
btw Jill…
Posted on June 11th, 2006 at 8:03 pmI finally started and FINISHED Aussie Rules!!
Loved it!!:thumbsup::thumbsup: from beginning to end!
Judy F says:
I finally got to see the picture today at work. Hugs to her. Hope she is doing better.
Posted on June 12th, 2006 at 1:35 pmmama kelly says:
oh dear
it hurts just to look at that poor foot
no wonder youre pulling out your hair
Posted on June 15th, 2006 at 8:47 am