Christmas Eve Disasters

As others have said the raisins, they can be toxic and cause kidney failure, my dog was over 40 kg and they said even 1 could be a problem for him.

We have kept the mince pies hidden this year and warn all our guests. Our dog is huge and can reach all work tops, he ate a tiny piece of wedding cake once, it cost us over £800 at out of hours vets as they needed so much medication to make him sick and we had to give him so much charcoal after 😱

Just raisins in this one but didn’t want to take the chance. Apparently not all dogs react but for those who do it can be fatal. Wasn’t going to take the chance. £600 later!!

Started yesterday feeling rubbish with a horrible cold that I've had for a week. Thought I couldn't feel any worse. Hahaha. Started throwing up at midnight. The D has joined D&V party too now 👍🏻 I'm lying on the landing alternating between sweats and shivers while my 8 year comes up and down to show me what was in her stocking

Raisins, and probably alcohol.

What is in a mince pie that dogs should not eat?

We went to the panto last night, Christmas Eve treat for the kids. Couldn't find our car in the car park when we came out. Searched the whole car park top to bottom but no car anywhere so it's been stolen. Thank god for Uber, we managed to get home relatively easy but then had two upset, overexcited kids to get to bed. Spent the rest of the evening on the phone to the police and insurance company. Funnily enough not really in the festive spirit now.

Christmas Eve 1977, I'm due off shift at 8 pm, boyfriend picking me up and we're meeting friends at the pub. Gentleman brought into the ward dying, within minutes he's gone. As a student nurse my job was to make the tea and sit with his wife and daughter. Christmas carols playing in the background, poor lady ends up consoling me as I was a blubbering mess. Got off the ward late, grabbed my gear and ran out to waiting boyfriend still in my uniform which was against the rules. He didn't say a word , drove me home with me bawling my eyes out. We didn't make it to the pub.
Said boyfriend, is husband snoring his head off upstairs at the moment.
I've often thought of that lady and her daughter over the years at Christmas time.

Hope everyone who's awake gets some more sleep. I've got up as can't sleep. DS1 present was leaked to him by our friend's daughter. He's a teen but it was a big surprise so I'm annoyed about that

Hope your little dog is okay!

A good thread for me to join tonight. First of all I’m so sorry for your DD’s pain and wish her a speedy recovery soon.

I’m currently sat up in bed with DC3 (11 weeks old) who has a snotty, blocked nose so can’t breathe properly when lying flat. Looks like they are sleeping on my chest for the night - and will have to deal with the rest of Christmas Day as it comes!!

I was playing at being a lion tamer and swung a chair up in to the air,

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Brilliant! But sorry you were injured

When DD was 2 and DS was 5 we obviously had to host the entire (15 members) family for Christmas. Including cooking, usual shenanigans, etc etc.

DD was sick all down my back after eating too much chocolate, then Fil was amazed that I went to take a shower afterwards.

Fun times

Awake with my dinky newborn who is a very unsettled babe tonight, thankfully my 19 month old has slept through all the cries this evening, hopefully I can get atleast 1 hours sleep before a busy day tomorrow 😂 there's something really lovely about being in the thick of it at this time of year knowing that it is just a phase and that this is our final baby and something we'll never experience again & next Christmas this will be a distant memory, I'm not sure we'll be laughing about it though DH is very grumpy atm 😂

Finally remembered my sneaky hiding spot though DH was not amused having waited till 1 am to play Santa. Worse still when we filled the stockings, one of them had a note on it: “Dear Santa please go to the kitchn. The dog’s stocking is in the kitchn.” Sure enough, it’s 1:30 am and we have found an empty stocking with the dog’s name pinned to it. How to fill it ?!🤷🤷🏻‍♀️

I was at the only available dentist (as advised by NHS 111) almost an hour’s drive from home, having an emergency molar extraction at 10pm tonight. Broken, unsalvageable tooth unfortunately. Tried to keep going, hoping I could manage the pain for a couple of days, but there was just no way.

I am petrified of dentists as a result of 1970’s medieval-like dental practices and shook so hard the chair rattled! Thankfully the dentist was very calm and reassuring and it wasn’t as bad as I was expecting.

When we got home, I had to direct DH getting all the dc’s presents and stockings from their hiding places and all set up for morning, while I tried to recover from the shock.

The only thing that scares me more than dentists is ‘dry socket’ so now I am fretting about that and thinking about all the lovely Christmas food I won’t be eating this year. Still, I am so glad the pain has finally gone and extremely grateful to the dentist and all their staff for working tonight. (Had to pay though as they had had so many 111 referrals there were no NHS appointments left.)

Yup. Had to call the fire brigade as there was smoke in the washing machine when I opened it to get my washing out and it set off the fire alarm. There's two communal washing machines in a house that's been divided into small flats. I didn't know what else to do as no one else was here, and was worried in case it was on fire, so I phoned 999. Now both washing machines are off limits, I had two loads in, one lot of washing stinks of burnt plastic, and the other I had to drag out halfway through a wash, so now it's dripping all over the floor. 🤦🏻‍♀️ I had to phone the emergency contact for the lettings agency and woke up the poor guy who answered the phone. He did say 'well done', so I felt a bit better. I suppose it could have been worse. 🤷🏻‍♀️

1am and we are at the emergency vet with our dog who ate the mince pie our son left out for Santa. They’ve induced vomiting and after paying several hundred pounds we are hoping to take him home tonight 🤞. And next year Santa can go without!

Can’t find where I’ve hidden half the DCs Christmas presents.

"all i want for christmas is my two front teeth"...showin my age/was a song way back when i was wee
hope was a milk tooth. id have hit deck at blood too.Have a merry xmas tho!xxx

That was really selfish of you all. Like, really
selfish .

Not this year but in 2010 our pipes burst on Christmas Eve and flooded the kitchen just as our guests were arriving. Every Christmas I still send mental good wishes to the emergency plumber who came out that evening and stopped the water flowing.

Quite a few years ago when DD1 was a baby she caught a horrendous sickness bug - it lasted for over 9 days. We were back and forward to the GP, I was so worried. She was finally on the mend
when we went to my in laws for
xmas.

Despite it being around 11 days since she first started to be sick, I started to be sick on Xmas night and EVERYONE else got sick too. It was awful.

Years ago as a child my entire family came down with gastric flu over Christmas. Everyone bound to their bed/a sofa with a bucket beside them. Christmas dinner entirely untouched. Everyone barely moved and just watched shite tv all day long in dark rooms. My sibling and I were too ill to play with toys, mum was too ill to cook anything beyond frozen chicken dippers and chips. Dad was ill but had to work (self employed) but kept coming home every few hours to lie in a heap.

I’ve never had anything like it again and I pray I never will.

Why on earth did you go? You must know the 48 hour rule doesn't just apply to kids in school - it's common sense for anyone who has had D&V of any kind to keep away from others until 48/72 hours after the last episode.

If she has any adult teeth in you can compare to one came out. It really will be much whiter