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Sep. 28, 2008 - The Most Expensive Child?

Does anyone have a child that just seems to run up medical bills with silly accidents? I have one of those. He's become known as K-Head (short for Knucklehead - affectionately named by his father, Underdog.) In the past 2 1/2 weeks, he's been to the ER with another head injury, an emergency pediatric clinic after having 1/2 a bottle of shampoo poured on his head and then rubbed in his eyes, and then his accident today.

Today was one of those "who-knew" moments for me. Schmoo has discovered that she was carry K-Head around. She loves it. She's practicing for the time with Baby ANT is old enough for her to carry. So K-head woke up kind of cranky this afternoon and she was trying to take care of him. But he weighs about 1/2 of what she does and it's all in his head. He's kind of hard to carry. So she picks him up and set him on the arm of the couch. She loses her grip on him and he falls backward. This is where the "who-knew" comes in. Did you know that if you are holding a sippy cup in you arms when you fall backwards onto a semi-hard surface you can get cut on your eye lid when it hits you in just the right spot? That's right!! K-head has a 1/2 inch gash on his left eye just below the eye brow.

I wavered back and forth on taking him to the clinic. Underdog and BroncoFan went to the Cowboy game this afternoon so I was home alone with 4 of the children. It didn't look bad and the bleeding had stopped. But everytime he blinked or rubbed it would bleed just a bit and slit open again. I finally decided to take him in. He's fine. But still. We are on COBRA right now and really have no idea right now what our coverage is. So I imagine K-head has cost us about $800 in medical bills in less than 3 weeks. That might be a bit of an exaggeration but the MRI at the ER will definitely send the cost up. Don't get me wrong. He's definitely worth it. He's still too young to communicate with me so sometimes I just can't tell. The most frustrating part of all this is that he's been fine with each trip. We can't take the chances though. It's just part of having children.

Oh, I forgot to mention. After arriving home, JB started making us a salad so we could have salad wraps. K-Head was standing on a chair watching her. I don't know what he did but somehow he pushed the chair backward and went right over with the chair as it fell. He hit his head again (and scared the bejeebers out of the dog eating dinner where he fell.) All I can say is praise God that he was fine after that one. The little Knucklehead!!! It will be fun to see what other kind of damage he can do to himself. I always expected the Linebacker Starter Kit to be the one with all the injuries. I have been surprised to find that K-Head seems to be falling into all that. I wander if I can just wrap him in bubblewrap for a few years until he gets a bit more steady. I am sure he'd find a way to get hurt even in the bubble wrap.

Oct. 5, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by MandyMom.com

Nolyn is our accident-prone child.. but a lot of these accidents are also a result of our daughter's "help".

Hope you're doing okay! It's been a while. (We were chatting on email a while back, if you remember.)

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Oct. 17, 2008 - That was my kid

Posted by Anonymous

I was just reading your blog about you accident pron child..... he wouldn't happen to be your second born would he? That was my second born son.... every time we turned around we were either at the walk in or the ER.... from Staples to stitches.... I can so sympathise! I found your link to your blog from the Home School Forum.
~Angela

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Oct. 22, 2008 - I've got one of those!

Posted by libbylou

I actually have had several kids like that periodically! One year I just knew family services was going to be knocking on my door! My then 3 year old fell while running down a hill and broke her collar bone and less than 1 week later, my then 9 year old had the end of his finger almost cut off by my 10 1/2yo brother. My youngest child, now almost 2, has had more bruises, gashes, cuts and scrapes ( all in visible areas, of course) than all of my other children combined. People will ask what happened and look at me as if I did it and I just want to say, ' if I was going to hit him, do you think I'd do it some place obvious?!?" When you've got an active kid what can you expect!

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