An unenviable inheritance

[DisgraceToTheYChromosome]

Chatting with DD today, we were trying to work out how many visits to A&E we've had as a family. Her: Crushed finger, ballpoint into hard palate, ripped off toenail, two broken collarbones, greenstick arm, cellulitis, infected cyst, broken coccyx. DW: broken wrist, dislocated knee, severe dehydration. Me: Broke both legs (one at a time), snapped ACL, both forefingers, appendix, and three other admissions after bike crashes.
Now DGS is getting in on the act. Falling downstairs (we watch him like hawks, he moves like a rattlesnake) so we took him in to be safe, then a month later he was sick and floppy so 111 had him blue lighted.
Make me feel better by recounting your own family's lunacy and high pain thresholds.

You went to A&E over a torn toenail.

Stopped breathing as a toddler but no recollection of this.
Suffered a major head trauma in my early twenties, six months later tore a ligament in my shoulder but they thought I’d broken it.
The latter two are why you should never let your children near horses.

Actually, it wasn't really A&E, it's just DD was visiting FIL after his hip replacement and she pulled a door over her foot, pulling her big toenail completely off Where better than a hospital to do something daft and painful?

I read your list and thought I know that life !

I had to send for ambulance last month as my back seized on me completely and I was sobbing in pain bent over the kitchen table. I had rung OOH dr and they said to ring 999. I was horrified . But the doctor asked how else was I going to get to where I needed to be seen.
I have to add that our area is not mainland UK and our system is not stretched .

Anyway I really posted to say never bother name changing I knew who you were straight away from your posting style . “ moves like a rattlesnake “ better than “dancing around in an elephantine manner”

Last summer I was there 4 times in 3 days.

1. Ds2 split his head open and needed glued back together.
2. Dd3 fell downstairs and promptly threw up. She was blue lighted in.
3. Dd1 fell out of a baby swing (she was 15 at the time) and needed her knee stitched back together.
4. Dd2 stuck Lego up her nose. The pharmacist sent us to a&e despite me pleading with her not to, we'd only been home an hour after incident 3.

The same nurse dealt with us each time. She was laughing her head off when she came in to the cubicle at incident 4

I was very shocked to not hear from ss or the hv after all that!

Disclaimer - we have no minor injuries units, it's a&e or nothing.

Oh, he dances like an elephant as well. At 2, DD was all expressive movement. DGS just stands there and shrugs rhythmically, almost exactly off the beat. Like the Patrician's clock, it twists the brain horribly.

Have you considered introducing him to Reggae?

At least that way, he'll be so chilled, he'll just bounce when he hits the ground.

@DisgraceToTheYChromosome

Oh I Googled Patricians clock and made DH listen to it . He is rocking in the corner saying his brain has been turned to porridge !

My work here is done !

Had DS head glued back together after his split open the skin in the middle of the night once-not really and A&E job but nothing else was open.