Raisins to be cherryful - 10 / 10 thread - all welcome

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Ye gods TooT, how horrible. Poor wee thing, and poor you xxxxx

oh toot i think eye things are very worrying...how awful to hurt himself so much with so small a thing

It's pretty certain he will have permanently damaged vision in that eye. And he may need further work
Thanks for the hug.

ChocolateRockingHorse - sounds like this sort of thing has heppened to your dcs more than once?

oh wow. Oh that's not good...

Toot, how awful. I am glad it got fixed though, but it sounds quite traumatic for you. Hope he heels quickly

lol @ quite of the week. I concur.

Blimey, Toot, what a horrible experience for you all. Have they said it will definitely be damaged? The body is amazing, especially little ones. I hope he recovers quickly and you get some sleep tonight.

Oh no, Toot

TT well one of them has had several GAs for lots of little procedures (broken teeth.. he has SNs and there's no way much can be done in his mouth unless he out for the count), MRI scans, grommets etc but he is also the master at doing dreadful things to himself too! He once got chili sauce (from someone else's plate) in his eye! But that was got out without a GA.. just..

And poor DS1 (now 15 and wouldn't thank me for talking about it) had to a circumsision at 3 (medical reasons); that was my first experience with child/GA and I have dreaded it since..

It's seeing all the fight go out of them isn't it! So traumatic..

Thanks for thinking of me with the hand washing notices too. I am going to watch Holby City now and see if they are popping gel squirts from their pockets.

Oh Toot
That is horrendous
Poor,poor ds & poor you
You must be shattered.
When will they see ds again?

oh no how awful

Oh TooT darling What an ordeal

blueberries, raspberries, oats

watercress, spring onion, ginger, chilli

borlotti beans, cannelini beans, chilli, onion, fistfuls of herbs.

pineapple, mango.

No exercise, but I am doing DH's tax return (doesn't have to be in till end of Oct, very pleased with self.) and also my many applications for finance for degree. I think that deserves extra points, especially if I don't kill myself before I finish.

Glad the ordeal is over TooT. And glad your sexpert was helpful MrsC. And glad your ds got the school. etc etc. GLad all round. Well done all.

The school one was for LL obviously.

Where do you live LittleR

CRH - respect! How awful.

Ds2 has to go back on Friday, then regularly I think. No idea when further work may take place.
Permanent damage pretty definite, yes, because the laceration is over the middle of his eye and is unlikely to heal absolutely flat, so will cause distortion.

I have just been mean mummy and done all three drops and ABs, despite ds2 sobbing that it would make him die and it was hurting his heart, etc

Lully, did ds get his school? The one youi wanted?

Oh sweetheart
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

yes he did
I wrote a very lengthy letter of appeal & the school governor said it made her cry

oh poor TooT and poor brave ds2

Oh no Toot that's not good, you must be shattered. Was this a blow pipe injury or did i make that up?

Do they think it's one of those things that the brain sort of compensates for, if that makes sense? I know it's different and probably quite ridiculous thing to say but my cat had an eye injury and the vet said even though her pupil is badly distorted her brain will compensate so she'll see fine. But she is a cat and not a boy. I will try not to offer to get my cat to come and talk to you.

Well done Lully!!!!!!!

Boco - I don't know. Weirdly, last night I kept wondering if it would stop him from driving. Not that it's an issue yet, but it will be one day.
I would be delighted to hear from your cat. Does she drive?

And yes, itwas the blowpipe thing. And it was the pointy end of the pencil.

Oh TooT I am bloody sorry to hear this. What a shock after the initial worry and then you must have thought it was all going to be relatively ok after all - then this. They are so lucky to have you - I would be so rubbish at this type of thing and you have stuck it all out.
I also feel very badly for ds1 - it was him who blew it wasn't it?

what exactly happened again, I can't remember?

Don't worry if you can't be bothered to go over it. You must be nacered.