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Not many things make me feel helpless but today did :(
My 10yr old had been out playing for around half an hour. There's a knock on my door, and there's a strange woman crying. She asked if Liam lived here - he was in her car.
Covered in blood, clothes ripped to shreds and crying in pain.
He was playing with friends and decided to climb a tree. Then fell 20ft, there is a branch around half way down that he bounced off which probably saved him.
6 inches from where he landed (on his back) is a concrete block with half a wooden post sticking out.
He is one lucky kid - he's got himself a night in hospital but no broken bones. I had to go & see where he fell because the hospital wanted to know if he was right when he said he fell from the height of a lamp post. That was what made them decide to keep him in.
Oh yeah - when I saw the concrete block - I puked.
My 10yr old had been out playing for around half an hour. There's a knock on my door, and there's a strange woman crying. She asked if Liam lived here - he was in her car.
Covered in blood, clothes ripped to shreds and crying in pain.
He was playing with friends and decided to climb a tree. Then fell 20ft, there is a branch around half way down that he bounced off which probably saved him.
6 inches from where he landed (on his back) is a concrete block with half a wooden post sticking out.
He is one lucky kid - he's got himself a night in hospital but no broken bones. I had to go & see where he fell because the hospital wanted to know if he was right when he said he fell from the height of a lamp post. That was what made them decide to keep him in.
Oh yeah - when I saw the concrete block - I puked.
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Glad to hear he's safe and (relatively) sound.
Having had 18 years of running pulling broken glass out of feet, broken wrists, concussion and unravelling kids from barbed wire fences, the what if would have sent us around the bend if we had played that game.
Hope he gets well soon, and very glad he's still OK.
I had a couple of scrapes when I was young, ran into some kid on a swing going full pelt and got knocked out, and ran into my grandparents' glass front door and had to have glass removed from my eyes. both times went to hospital
That's awful, but you're right he is very lucky from the sounds of things.
Hope he heals up quickly mate.
I did a similar thing when I were around 10 years old... Went down this canal which had huge trees I decided to climb. I fell around 30 feet to the ground and landed on my back. Remember it plain as yesterday because when I landed I had knocked the wind out of me and struggled to breath... I was very fortunate I hadn't broken my back upon landing.
it gave me a cold chill when I read the post
Sometimes being a parent is so hard.
I was forever getting injuries as a kid....I once fell out of a tree I was climbing to try and put a tarzan swing up on, but only ended up with a twisted ankle. Another time I tore my leg on a barb-wire fence after flying over the handlebars of my BMX...and to add insult to injury, landed in some cow poop!
And the worst and only one I had to go to hospital with, I head-butted an iron railing and split my head open after a particularly violent game of British Bulldogs, and then the school couldn't get in contact with my folks...so I had to sit there for 2 hours bleeding because they weren't allowed to get any doctor's help without my parents consent...a rule I thankfully think has now been changed! Ended up with 4 stitches eventually..
Mind you, all of those incidents helped me out in the end....I learned to keep away from trees, iron bars and barb-wire fences!
It's kinda working the other way around with me. My mum's in her mid-60s now and had a bad fall recently where she broke her shoulder in three places. Ouch. It's the first time I've really thought that my mum and dad are getting on a bit. It knocked the stuffing out of her at the time, but she's on the mend now.
He's happy with the attention, but got to stay in another night.
But not cow poop.... ;)
Ah, could be a lot worse, they probably just want to be sure he's completely OK.
To add to some of the other horror stories here....I went face first into my parents glass ornament cabinet when I was younger too....caused by leaping between the chairs and sofa in the same room...shredded my face up a bit. Well, a lot actually, had to have bits of glass removed and all that. Luckily it all completely healed now but I've still got a scar underneath my bottom lip to show for it (which isn't even visible if I don't shave for a day or so :D )
the ONLY TIME i've been to hospital .....
don't worry ..... he'll be boasting about it in school soon enough!!
I had a load as an adult though lol! Hit by a bus, beaten with a crowbar by 4 blokes cos they got the wrong guy (really the wrong guy cos two of them came to hospital with me lol), rolled a car on the M6, had a lorry hit my car at 90mph, had a gun held to my head in a line up (guy next but one to me in the line up was killed) etc...
Yet all that fun started after I was 16!!
Hehehe, I was the opposite, I had all of my adventures before I was 16. I'm now terribly boring* and lead a boring-let-me-repeat-that-BORING life ... but I'm ok with that.
*As you can attest to.
Is that when you nearly chopped yer arm off with a sheet of glass? I remember you posting that story in gory detail a while back.
As for me I've said it before on here, but the dodgiest thing that ever happened to me was I got stabbed with a pair of scissors by some psycho when I was 14. Inch or 2 either way I'd have been dead. The scar's crap though it's just a tiny white circle on my collarbone
got knocked off a bicycle by a blind bitch in a car driving the wrong way down the road - set the tone for the rest of my life there
broke my arm on my roller boots, denied that there was anything wrong for two days until I was dragged arguing to the hospital
nearly died from anapahlactic shock or however you spell it, cos of a reaction to antibiotics, and nearly died of flu too (apparently)
fell out of, over and into just about everything and anything you can imagine, trees, slurry, the sea, rivers etc
:D
He'll be absolutely fine and dandy.
Burn him, he's a witch!!! :o
I was walking around an old abandoned, overgrown cemetary with a few mates once, about 11 years old, thought I'd stroll off to the far end of the yard, thinking the ground was the same level throughout as it was so overgrown everywhere. Everyone said it was as if I just suddenly vanished into the ground! I looked up, saw all my mates looking down at me, I'd only fallen a few feet, but I was lying there on my back, wearing shorts and a T-shirt, lying in a huge load of nettles. It was very "ouch"! :lol: