Unexpected agonising toy injuries

[Muddays]

Toys come with warnings to be aware of any potential problems for the children playing with them, but what about the adults? My DH stood barefoot on a plastic Gru toy with its arms stretched upwards, with his whole 6'4 weight on it, and was reduced to a pale faced cringing speechless ball of gasping agony. DS naturally found this hilarious. I did too but karma was waiting patiently. I sleepily moved my pillow to get more comfy around 4am only to face plant on random helicopter Lego pieces hidden beneath which cut my nose, eyelid, cheek and vanilla iced my eyebrow. Anyone else out there who view kids toys with deep wariness?

DH got hit in the eye by the tail of a stretchy crocodile toy when DD threw it and his eye was watering and painful for over a week 😬

Looked inside a ball popper to see if it was blocked. It wasn’t. My bruised cheek and bashed nose were proof. 😐

Not quite a toy but DS2 was sat on DH's lap and when he moved his arm the cuff of his woollen cardigan caught DH's eye. We ended up in minor injuries as it scratched his cornea and his eye became infected!

Kneeling on a piece of Lego - eye-wateringly painful

Maybe this is why some people only let their kids have wooden toys.

I broke my coccyx bone after slipping in a toy car several years ago. The car moved as did my foot and I landed on the edge of the wooden arm of a sofa. Very very painful.

Dd once scratched her granddad's eyeball with the hand of a toy princess doll. It caught his eye as he lifted her up. He had to forgo a theatre trip that evening with MIL. Dh did similar but with the Christmas tree pine needles!

I got hit on the head by wooden stacking cubes when mine were toddlers.

Wooden toys hurt more!

(Although its mainly the children themselves that cause me the injuries... we thought I had a broken nose recently after helping my 9yo on the monkey bars and taking an elbow to the face!)

At playgroup with 12 mo dd. Let's get the musical instruments out they said......let's smack mum square in the chops with this lovely wooden maraca thought dd, as she's jigging me up and down and grinning like a Cheshire Cat. Cue a neat diagonal crack in my front tooth which I bear to this day nearly 16 years on!!

Stepping on Lego is not something to be laughed at

Truly eye watering experiences ladies! Argh! I totally identify with chipped teeth and mild concussions, urgh. The springing toys should come with adult crash helmets too. It's not just toys though. My DH shared a bath with our toddler not realising he had emptied an entire large tube of toothpaste in it. Apparently it's absolute hell on a man's privates... DH fled screaming from the bathroom and nearly destroyed our kitchen sink.

Oh god. Ds1 left one of those pins from a hammer and tap on the stairs. I stood on it. Leapt up. Missed a step and fell half.way down the stairs... one foot hurting from the pin and the other foot.hurting from the fall

I don't recommend looking point blank 👁 down the barrel of a Nerf gun 🔫 while pulling on the trigger trying to dislodge a bent bullet, the type with velcro at the end.

The optician was very professional and kept a straight face throughout my emergency appointment the next morning. He put some dye in my eye and said he could see ask the velcro scratches on my eyeball!

Disclaimer: There was 🍷 involved.

I was nearly blinded in one eye after a teething DS whacked a Sofie the Giraffe directly into my eye while he was on my lap, saw stars and everything! Took a while for my vision to clear...dangerous little bastards!

I work in dentistry.
The worst ever trauma I have seen was a gentleman who had his upper teeth almost entirely destroyed by his small grandson bashing him in the mouth with a tambourine.

I needed stitches after standing on a tiny plastic Spider-Man toy!
15 years later I still have the ugly scar on the sole of my foot 😳

I've had a few as a parent but none as painful as one I sustained as a nursery teacher when I knelt on an upturned plastic goat. I had bruises in the shapes of hooves for days!

Maybe this is why some people only let their kids have wooden toys.

Doesn't help. Dd gave ds a nosebleed when she clobbered him with a holztiger elephant and my foot's never been the same since dh dropped the big heavy wooden Noah's ark on it when we were tidying up. The Ark was fine which annoyingly was dh's first priority!

Also wouldn't recommend standing on dinosaurs although I was impressed the Schleich triceratops I stood on suffered no ill effects from the experience, unlike my foot.

Not stepping on anything but my poor Mum got a hell of a shock when she walked into her sitting room many years ago. Before she could turn on the light switch Ds2's abandoned toy solider shouted "STOP I SEE YOU" at her from under the sofa!! 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

Lego under foot in the dark ranks high on the list
dD aged 11months with no teeth sank her mouth over my hand on the Waitrose trolley and wouldn’t let go.
like a bloody mouse - she was prised away by Waitrose staff and attracted them by my screaming at the top of my voice. Blood everywhere, ambulance and stitches followed and I passed out after the screaming ……

I've done this, my full body weight on a 2x1 piece of lego, right on the bony part of my knee - I couldn't kneel properly for months it was that painful.