to be horrified AND amused by mum's superglue debacle???

[wabbit]

I just rang her to ask if she needed me to do a couple of days respite care... Dad's 93 and very infirm and she needs to spend a couple of days with her sister who's just lost her husband to cancer...

I didn't expect to be told - by a very contrite Mum, that she'd accidentally mistaken Dad's antibiotic eye drops for another very similar looking small tube and super-glued one of dad's eyes together last night...

Of course she took immediate action and then called the paramedics who took him to the hospital where he spent the night.

Knowing that Dad is now OK and that my dear, dizzy Mum has owned up to it... I just can't help myself having a giggle - not at the ordeal that Dad went through just that ONLY MY MUM could do such a thing. ONLY MY MUM would have superglue and eyedrops in close proximity of eachother - I think I'm laughing in utter disbelief!!!

That is shockingly hilarious, your poor dada tho!

But ah bless your mum!

OMG glad your dad is ok but got to admit I did have a giggle

dada? sorry you are not a child-on auto pilot me thinks

your poor dad.

lol..although crossed my mind its the kind of thing my mother would do....

am assuming your dad ok now and sorry to hear about your bil

OMG!!

Oh, your poor dad, and mum.

OMG!!

Wabbit this is legend and will surely enter the hall of fame! Your poor Dad, I hope he is not too bruised by the experience! Maybe the staff ought to do this in future?

Knowing he's alright means it ca now be thought of as funny.

Oh!! I'm not being unreasonable in thinking I CAN laugh about it then??!!!

I know - Poor old chap, he suffers at her ever willing ministrations far too frequently! But this, as BGD says, is truly Legend even in Mum's catalogue of disasters!!

Wabbit, my mum is an ex nurse and helps out at an old peoples home every now and then. Ther is one elderly woman who insists on having four or five pairs of pants on (Why I don't know) but she had some bandages that needed to be pinned together and my mum lost one of the pins in her pants. She could not find it and used anither safety pin instead...
I still wince now.

Oh NO! But I'm glad it gave you something to smile about!

Oh this is nasty. I saw someone do this with their small child - the child needed general aneasthetic to clean out the eyes.

(I didn't literally see the women put the super glue in obviously - I saw them a while afterwards)

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I don't know what the surgeons did, in that child's case. It's horrible isn't it?

glad your dad's ok wabbit!

Ouch!

My friend's dad rinsed his eyes with mouthwash instead of Optrex because they were similar colours. Apparently it's invigorating

belgo - yes poor Dad was taken back home first thing this morning, bless him
Have been thinking about this and feel my mirth is somewhat misplaced (he's a very, very old gent!)It was such an irrepressable gut reaction to my horror (and Mum's ditzyness)

BGD - lol at lost pin!! five pairs of knickers!

Your poor dad, BUT I'm sorry I did laugh out loud, your Mum must feel awful!!

Yes... she does! She said that after he'd been taken to hospital, she'd never felt so alone - and silly

I am so sorry but I have literally pmsl, and now I need a bath.

That is the funniest thing!!!

and

Oh dear, you're poor dad!! How funny though!

Oh, your poor mum and dad! Does your mum feel very bad, or is she seeing a funny side now she knows your Dad is ok?

sorry to giggle
how horrid for your M&D