Whats the SCARIEST thing that has ever happened to your child??

Dawn - posted on 06/14/2009

my daughter has nursemaids elbow. for those that don't know what that is, the tendon that goes from the elbow to the wrist can pull out very easy. it usually occurs when someone pulls up on the arm or from swinging on monkey bars etc. we've had to take her to the ER 4 times now in the last 2 years because of it. just last week she was sitting on the couch and i told her we were going to gramma's house and she got so excited she flew off the couch head first and somehow did it again. not sure cause she didn't "pull" her arm. but i knew that's what it was so i rushed her in but they were skeptical because of how i said it had happened so we spent 2 hours there (normally we are in and out in 30 minutes) while they tortured her with x rays!!! she was in so much pain that she was shaking and turned pale!! i wanted to cry too.

it's a very painful condition but it's an easy fix...the dr just twists the arm and "pops" it back in. i just wish they would have listened to me at first and she wouldn't have had to go through 2 hours of pain!!!!!

Bronwen - posted on 06/14/2009

When my little girl was about 3 months old, she had a big furry "sausage dog" soft toy in her cot that we used to use instead of a wedge to stop her rolling over. She had learned to roll onto her back in spite of this and one afternoon during her naptime she happened to pull the mutt over her face. She then proceeded to suck on his underside until it was all wet, but because she was so little, she wasn't strong enough to push him off her face once he was wet, so she started to suffocate. My husband and I were in the lounge and we started hearing these strange noises, so we raced through to her nursery. We pulled the toy off her face and she was completely blue, but once the dog was off she started crying and was pink again in no time. It gave us a horrible scare and we took ALL of the soft toys out of her cot straight away. She's a happy, bubbly little 16 month old now but I am SO grateful we got to her in time!

Nicole - posted on 06/14/2009

The scariest for me was with my oldest son this past winter/spring. A few months shy of his fourth birthday he started acting off but I was pregnant and we were busy so I just chalked it up to our schedule at the time. Then I noticed a bunch of swollen lymph nodes on both sides of his neck. His doctor sent him in for basic bloodwork and a chest x-ray. When the x-ray showed a lung nodule we didn't know what to think! After weeks of tests and worrying about cancer, he was finally diagnosed with a fungal disease, histoplasmosis. To this day we're still unsure how he picked it up (you have to inhale the spores) and why he reacted to it (normally, healthy people don't noticeably react). But those weeks of waiting for a diagnosis were agonizing!

Amy - posted on 06/14/2009

my now 7 year old was diagnosed with childhood epilespsy last year, and she had two EEGs and takes medication to control her "absence" seizures.....scary because we all want our children to be perfect in ever way!

Julie - posted on 06/14/2009

My scariest moment.

My older son, (now 1 1/2) was 6 months old. I had him in the stroller, and was shopping at Costco. The cashier, after handling money, came around and actually grabbed his hand, and touched his face. As soon as I saw her, I told her to stop, seeing as how he puts his hands in his mouth, and she had just been handling $. I immediatly washed his hands, and walked away uber annoyed.

That night, he was caughing so hard he was throwing up. Took him into the ER, they gave him ashma meds, he became calm and stable, we took him home. The next day I took him into his Dr. and she gave me a nebulizer to use for him, to help calm the caugh, and make it easier to breath.The next day, he was doing good. Gave him treatments, and he seemed to be coming around. The next morning at 3am, he woke up, couldn't stop crying, caughing, or thrashing around. It went this way for 4 hours, me trying to give him a treatment on the nebulizer, and to calm him down. Finally at 8 he let me give him a treatment. That's when it happened. He calmed down in my arms, and fell asleep. As soon as he fell asleep, he stopped breathing. I jiggled him, and slapped his face to get him to wake up, and as soon as he woke up, he took a breath. Then he fell asleep again, and again, stopped breathing. Again I woke him up, and he took a breath. At that point, I calmed my screaming, told my husband to call for an ambulance, and did everything to keep my son awake.

The dumbest thing, was after we got to the ER, they had a nurse hold and moniter him while he slept. She looked at me and said, "I have good news, and bad news. Good news is that you weren't just having a wild imagination, or over-reacting. bad news, he really isnt a safe sleeper right now." It took about 2 seconds until she handed him over, shrunk as small as she could, and wouldn't look at me when I said," Um..Lady, I KNOW that I don't have a stupid f**king "wild imagination" and I know that I wasn't over-reacting. And because of these facts, I KNOW that my son isn't a safe sleeper. Can you tell me one thing that I don't already F**KING KNOW?"

She then excused herself, and said she would get the doctor for me.

It took 5 days of someone constantly being awake with him every second, until he was over his cold. To this day, and most likely for the rest of my life, those moments when I truly thought that I had lost my baby in my arms make me want to cry waterfalls.

After all this, I called every store in town, told them about what happened, and urged them all to have a meeting with thier employees about touching children when they havn't gotten permission from the parents. As far as I've found, they all did. I never gave that lady's name to the store, but the last time I saw her, I told her what her small act had done. I believe, and so does the cashier, that she passed a cold to my little boy.

Stephanie - posted on 06/14/2009

My daughter was about 10 months old and I went to pick her up from the babysitter and they were feeding her some baby food. She was not acting right so I went over and picked her up from the highchair and when I did she acted like she was choking. I was talking with the sitter and she told me that she had bought some new baby food and one of the jars dropped on the floor and that was what the were feeding her. At that moment my daughter coughed then threw up blood. Immediately I knew the jar had cracked and she had just eaten glass. I grabbed my keys and we went straight to the ER. The moment we got there they took her back and said they were going to do an x-ray and if she had indeed ingested any glass it would shine like the moon on a clear night. That was the longest 2 hours in my whole life. She ended up being fine and they think she just got it stuck in her throat and when she threw up it came out. we had to watch her very closely for about a week but she is now a healthy, happy3 yr old. The babysitter told me if the food even got knocked over she threw away no more taking chances.

Sherry - posted on 06/14/2009

With my daughter the scariest time was when she was hit in the nose with a golf club. By the time we got to the ER she was drenched in blood and barely responsive. She had a broken nose and had to have stitches put inside her nose because she was hit so hard that her nose busted open on the inside.

Martha - posted on 06/14/2009

When my 2nd was 2 months old we were doing tummy time on the floor. My almost 3 year old found the dog's ball under the china cabinet and threw it. The dog chased it onto the recliner, lost his balance, and jumped right in the middle of my baby's back. I have never heard a baby cry like that before. When she wouldn't stop crying, we decided to take her to the ER. She settled down some in the car. By the time we saw the triage nurse, she was smiling and cooing at me. I felt like an idiot, but I figured I had waited this long, I might as well have someone with medical training tell me she was ok.

Sherry - posted on 06/14/2009

I think the scariest thing for me was when my son went down this big hill on his bike and lost control and went over the handlebar at the bottom. He ended up with stitches in his foot, a concussion, and his face looked like he had gone a round with Mike Tyson and lost.

Sapphire - posted on 06/14/2009

When my son was 2, he fainted. He passed out in public at a 4th of July event. He was in a bouncer and coupled with the heat, started to become dehydrated. When I took him ou tof the bouncer, his eyes rolled back in his head and went limp in my arms. This was on the football field at the high school, and of course I shrieked bloody murder and called 911-trying to find my hubby on the field. I remember how instantaneously the paramedics arrived, offered him some Gatorade and monitored him. What was surreal about the whole experience was the 16 year old Junior Paramedic-one of my former 8th grade students who hugged me, comforted me, and called over a bunch of former students to just be with me while the lead paramedic made sure my son was recovering, and then eventually playing in the back of the ambulance. He is such an active kid, pushing the boundaries, I forsee stitches and broken bones in the future.

Jessica - posted on 06/14/2009

I would have to say the worst thing that has ever happened to my son was when he was less than a week shy of his first birthday. He got sick (puking everything he ate up) about 4 days before his 1st birthday. I ended up taking him to the ER for them to give him 1 bag of fluids and then they turn around and send him home. No more than 2 hours after we got home my son quit breathing and when I laid him down to do CPR he started to have seizure like activity. Took him back to the same ER (ONLY B/C it was the closest hospital) only this time I flipped out and needless to say they were at our every beck & call. His blood sugar was below 60. They ended up admitting him to a hospital about 30 minutes from the town we lived in at the time. The doctors believe he had a severe case of the flu and he got severly dehydrated, they couldn't find anything else wrong with him. He was put on IV fluids for 2.5 days straight and was put on IV antibiotics for 2 days almost. Needless to say when he gets sick now I get paranoid. But now I know to push fluids even more than I did that time

Carolann - posted on 06/14/2009

I think, recently, he was on a school trip to Paris for the day, and he went missing. The head teacher came to tell me all the other kids were on their way home except my son, apparently he just went away. He is safe and well and found within 2 hours . He had the good sense to go into a shop and tell them he was lost. The police came and got him and gave him to the 2 teachers that stayed in Paris. The school say its his fault. He had to stay overnight there and got home the next day, worst night of my life, dont think it was too great for him either. He is 12 years old.

Victoria - posted on 06/14/2009

Hmmm...don't mean the scariest thing from the parent's point of view?



With 5 kids it's hard to say which ONE was the scariest! I will share 3 of my personal most terrifying--one from each of my oldest, though my littlest have had their share, too--each gray hair worth!!!:



1. When my oldest was about 3 I was in the dining room chatting with my cousin who'd come for a visit from out of state. From the other room, my daughter called: "Mommy, come take a picture of me." I blew her off. Three times I did this. Finally annoyed I walked around the wall separating the dining room from the living area where she was.



There, standing on the couch, was my giggling girl, the cord to the mini-blinds tied tightly around her neck! Terrified, I dashed to her, snatching her up just as she was about to jump off the edge of the couch. The strings were so tight I had to cut them off with scissors--and that was a task in itself!



2. While pregnant with my 3rd child, we took our little family to an amusement park. My husband and 2 little lasses (ages 2 and 3 then) decided to go on a ski lift ride. There wasn't enough room for 4 so I stayed on the ground (which was fine with me as I wasn't feeling well that day anyway). I had perfect view of the ride as I stood directly below them. As their "car" went over head, my 2nd daughter slipped below the bar to wave to me--not holding on to anything. My husband had only a second to snag her (I've never seen him move so fast, and he had a death grip on her til the ride was over!). Whenever I recall this situation I wonder: Could I have caught her...she was a tiny little thing, but I was at whale stage then! Could I have moved fast enough or would I have froze?



And finally:

3. While pregnant with my 4th child, my husband and I were sitting in the front yard, enjoying a relaxing summer afternoon. The children were playing in the driveway (we live on a street where cars buzz through like hummingbirds). I had no more than told my children (then 8, 7, 5) not to run in the street when a car whizzed towards us--the ball, also at that very moment, flew overhead--my 5 year old chasing right behind, eyes not wavering from the round orb. The driver managed to hit the brakes in time, coming only inches away from her. But that was too much for me and I screamed at all of the kids: "Get in the house!" No one said a word.



Other things: My 4th child (an infant) spending time in the hospital for apnea--a fluke brought us in, followed by a 24 hour stay, listening to the machine breath for her, watching numbers go up and drop low and hoping she would take her next breath without help. And my son--my last child--having fallen a week before his due date; I'd say his birth was most traumatic--as his oxygen levels would drop off the monitor with each contraction (he has an angel watching over him cause he was fine!!!!)