So we are at the beach (rain held off for a blessed while) and DS2 is in the sea with his body board, in a wet suit and having the time of his life when he comes out to me (stood in the surf) and says mummy something bit my foot! SO I try to look at his foot and he wont let me and he is now crying mummy mummy it hurts it hurts (he is 7) so a life guard comes over and ask "is it a weaver"? A whater says I. Small fish that likes to hide in the sand under water and if you are unlucky enough to tread on it it has a sting that would fell a grown man he tells me as I look all townie and daft!
Hot water will fix it he says so DS2 hobbles up to the life guard station crying and is given a bucket of hot water to stick said foot in to, now the life guard tells me that these stings hurt, really really hurt and putting it in the hot water will help it stop hurting quicker but will also hurt, DS2 is screaming in pain now and I was trying to calm him and tell him that the hot water would only hurt a little bit but the pain would go much faster, but being 7 and in a lot of pain he was having none of it and getting more and more upset.....
Then some woman who is sat on the beach with her family in frount of the lifeguard station sticks her head up and says " HE IS MAKING A FUSS CAUSE YOU ARE THERE, I AM SURE YOU ARE A NICE WOMAN AND ALL BUT GO AWAY AND LET THE LIFE GUARD DEAL WITH HIM"
Oh yes thats helpful Mrs I dont think,
I was really pissed off and she sat muttering to her family about the fuss DS2 was making.
I was about to say madam I am not a nice woman in the least when I am pissed off would you like a smack in the mouth to prove it!
DSs foot was red and swollen and painfull for the following 6 hours despite the hot water, so beware the weaver fish, and bloody stupid women sat on beaches that think the best was to deal with a hurt 7 year old is to leave him for someone else to deal with
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MummyItHurts · 18/08/2008 19:42
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