Christmas Day, what didn't go to plan? We ended up in A & E.

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DH slipped on the stairs this morning just as we were about to go to church.............I knew from the scream that it was bad! Packed the kids off to my mum and off we went to A & E. DH has a badly broken ankle which had to be manipulated and he is now in a cast - fracture clinic on Friday and it's likely he will need an operation to stabilise the spiral fracture to his fibular.
Staff at the hospital were amazing and we were back at my mums within 2 hours in time for Christmas Dinner.

I think I may have broken my toe this morning. Knocked over a pile of folding chairs and one landed on my toe. I don’t think A&E would do anything for it so tooo ibuprofen and made lunch for 11. If I still in pain tomorrow I will go to A&E

If it's your big toe you should get it checked out. DH did not, and 5 years later had to have surgery which had a 50% chance of reducing the pain enough that he could walk comfortably again. Luckily it mostly worked but he still has to wear toe separators and has some impressive scars.

Ouch to many things!

I hope everyone heals quickly and well.

My 2 year old daughter has been vomiting since Friday, which reached its peak yesterday evening. We ran out of sheets from changing the bed so often. The sofas and floors and everything have been puked on at least once. The whole flat stinks. I spent the whole night awake with her holding her over a bowl in case she was sick.
Went to a&e and it is likely asthma induced vomiting. Salbutamol has kicked in and we have had some toy time. She's still so happy despite everything , and now won't let me out of her new tent. Safe to say I wasn't cooking so this was our Christmas dinner:

Oh sorry OP that sounds awful, hope he heals quickly.
Ours was as per usual stupidly stressful and tedious. Dh insists on being in charge of the meal (I’m literally allowed only to make a trifle). Trouble is he goes totally OTT, and is wildly optimistic about timings. He started the dinner at 10am and it was ready at 4pm - yes folks it took 6 bloody hours!!!

I’ve had 14 of Christmas being done this way, but this is the last time! Next year I’m booking lunch out and he can come with us or stay at home, his choice!

Hopes he’s ok OP!

Santa left me toothache! Surviving on snowballs and codeine

Burnt my hand and have spent all day with an ice pack on it

Nothing in comparison , but DH never NEVER cooks and it really annoys me , yet this morning he offers to peel the potatoes
Then criticises everything , all day
Dinners ready for 4 ( which I think is a stupid time to eat , we never eat at 4 so why would I want to )
He’s just advised me to write in my 2020 diary that we need a smaller turkey next Christmas
He’s just washed up ( in lukewarm brown water ) so I help to dry. And start putting ‘washed ‘ stuff in the dishwasher ( because why would you have a dishwasher and wash by hand ? )
So I’ve poured myself a mahoosive glass of wine and gone to watch telly
Hope everyone has a better Boxing Day

Not as bad as illness, (but equally annoying), our boiler stopped working this morning and we have a 6 month old baby to keep warm

Christmas lunch was quite stressful. My Mum insists every year on having Christmas lunch at this chain pub near where she lives, despite every year us pointing out that it's expensive, food is pretty poor quality, and I really don't agree with staff having to work Christmas day. I relented this year again as DB and his partner had refused to go this year for the same reasons, and my Mum was already in a huff about it so I decided not to throw salt on the wound by refusing to go too. The food again today was pretty poor overall and the service wasn't much better. My meal was forgotten and pretty much everyone had finished eating by the time I got mine. The kids had ice cream for dessert but they had melted before they even got to the table. And most significantly it was just way too much for DD1 (5) who has autism and hypersensitivity to loud noises and therefore had a meltdown every time someone pulled a cracker (which being a pub on Christmas day was pretty frequently!) so me and DH basically spent most of the meal taking it in turns to take her away from the other diners to calm down. I paid £130 for that experience. Next year I'm putting my foot down and saying we're not going too. It's no fun for us going just to spend most of the time trying to calm DD1 down.

Changed 4 week old's dirty nappy on sisters sofa before she had finished. Pooptastrophy!

OP your poor husband - ouch.

I woke at midnight last night with a vomiting bug and spent an hour at 3am scrubbing the bathroom floor because I didn't make it to the loo in time. Was then sick several times more. Packed DH and 20month old DS off to his mother this morning, and have had my first ever Christmas on my own with dry toast and dioralyte. I'm also 35 weeks pregnant and the baby is doing somersaults next to my already dodgy tummy.

Think I'm going to go to bed very shortly

@KitKat1985

I have autistic children, and they are the very last kids who could cope with a Xmas day lunch out: next year just be v clear from the outset that you’re staying at home! Don’t put your mums feelings ahead of their needs... I know grand parents often don’t “get” autism and what it actually means for you, but seriously... it sounds miserable for everyone!

It was just a bit shit and disappointing all round. I hate Christmas, so much expectation followed by a shit load of stress and disappointment. But I have had my pyjamas on since 3pm and ds has built one of his Lego sets already.

@VanityScare No I agree. I really tried to make it work this year but it was just way too much for DD1 so completely unenjoyable for her and therefore for me and DH, who just spent most of the lunch trying to calm her down and taking it in turn to sit away from everyone else with her in a quieter corner of the pub. My Mum just doesn't get it really - she's quite set in her way and likes to do the same thing every year. All she says when asked why she particularly wants to go to this pub is how convenient it is for her as she can meet her brother (my uncle) at the pub therefore for lunch, and how lovely it is not to have the stress of cooking (even though both me and DB offered to do the cooking this year for her and uncle so actually she wouldn't have had to do any anyway).

Cystitis. Merry Xmas to me!

We had to go to the out of hours GP with 15 month old LO at lunch time after a weird lethargic episode where his lips went a bit blue and he had really laboured breathing. It’s just a virus, no sign of bronchiolitus (sp?!) thankfully but he spent the entire afternoon sweatily asleep on me on the sofa. MIL went upstairs and sulked for an hour when DH asked if she could keep her voice down so LO could rest.

Christmas eve last year I slipped down the stairs and broke my coccyx in 3 places, so my sympathies to your DH!

Well we woke up to discover the cat had vomited all over the dining room floor, the back doormat and a dining chair.
Not the best start to the day!
Dinner went well except ds2 kept looking unhappy, rubbing his tummy and saying he couldn't eat. He's 5.
Thankfully no vomiting from him but he's clearly under the weather and fell asleep at 5pm, he feels like he's running a fever. Still, it's not Christmas unless someone's ill and just for once it's not me! He did at least get a chance to play on his scooter.
Ds1 has a mini quadcopter that he promptly flew straight into my bedroom bin. DH spent quite a long time removing my hair from the rotors.
Actually for us it's not too bad. No one has flu and no adult tantrums.

I am currently on the sofa with a hot wheat bag as my fecking period arrived today. It hasn't spoiled the day but I have felt bloody uncomfortable and fed up.

I woke up with a rash all over, my eyes were a little heavy and I was super tired. I took an antihistamine earlier on, not sure if I can have another but coping. I had an allergic reaction to drinking a couple sips of coke, basically haven't had any in about 5/6years, yesterday I thought why not try some? I can't believe Im allergic, used to drink so much in my youth!

Our day has mostly been lovely.
Our 3 year old is slightly speech delayed and really struggled. Screamed, threw stuff, injured his sister, had major meltdowns all day, broke one of his new toys and barely ate anything all day.
The lack of routine and so many presents overwhelms him so much.
Even our normally well behaved 5 year old ended up in tears at a few points throughout the day as she was so overwhelmed.
They never advertise fractious children on the adverts!!!

Well, I just had my Ds cry because he did not get as many presents as last year.

I told him he was free to mention it to Santa in next year's Christmas letter.... you have never seen a child backpedal so fast!

He was up at 2, and spent most of the night awake, colming in to see me at 3 am, 4.30 and 5.30 to ask if it was time to get up yet. Then has been running on adrenaline all day. So it's carnage.

I have made him cheese toasties and chocolate milk for supper and put him to bed.

The main thing I hate is that DH always likes super quiet christmases. He was amde to go for a walk after christmas dinner when he was a kid so refuses to do so now. When he was amrried the first time they entertained alot so he has a deep antipathy to it now. So the kids spent the time watching tvs and dvds and I have been feeling a bit bored (when not cooking).

I said that tomorrow we would go out to an event that is happening near us and DH said 'why do you always try and make everyone do things we do not want to do?'.

I'm like- because if it were up to you we would stay in and watch tv every fucking weekend and holiday.

I am not feeling particularly christmassy.

I accidentally turned the oven off halfway through cooking dinner. My bloody bil decided to turn up with a full on drone for my 4yo which he handed to him switched on in the sitting room. It immediately flies straight towards the window, dh tries to dive in front of it to stop it and knocks the christmas tree over.

Nothing broken, no one hurt and we all eventually ate so, all in all, a good day.

A&E yesterday for 6 hours pushing today’s prep to 3am.
Smallest 5month old child has been getting worse all week with the GP finally holding up her hands and saying ‘sorry, it’s hospital now, it’s an infection that won’t clear’.
So grateful for the NHS, so grateful for the lovely GP, so grateful for the kind consultant who said ‘it’s 50/50 as to whether this will get worse or clear up, but it’s Christmas so go home and call an ambulance if it gets worse.’.
It got better, child fine, everyone has had a lovely day and I’m knackered.