Not many moms will admit when they failed but I'm doing it tonight because my son scared the hell out of me today. I failed because I wasn't watching him. I was too busy in one room to realize he had gotten into my purse in another room. Too busy to know he got into a child proof locked medicine container and decided to chow down on an odd number of my Excedrin. I had no idea. I would have not known for a while but he came right away to tell me he had ate something yucky and wanted to show me. I freaked out! I called my mom first since she's an RN and well, she's my mom and had a certain daughter do this sorta thing ALOT. She advised as I thought she would to call the on call nurse at the hospital and then they transferred me to poison control. I said he had about 4-5 pills since the container carried only about 6 and two were left. They calculated his weight to the amount of whatever is in Excedrin and determined he was fine. That I look for any sign of sickness, or any difference at all really. Hours went by, gave him water, milk, food and he kept it down. He was normal, a bit hyper, but normal. And they called about 5 hours later and I told him he was still fine and never got sick. My mom had called back and this situation felt familiar to both of us. She did her job to keep medicine up high, out of reach and in their containers but determined me always found a way to bust through and down all the Flintstones vitamins and bottles of dimetapp as she told me today. I sure hope I don't have a child like me. I don't want (no offense mom) to have to go through what my mom went through and take my child to the hospital to get pumped...multiple times.
I felt awful I wasn't keeping a better eye on him. If something had happened and it was on my watch...I know its hard to watch a child 24/7. And you feel they should be safe with them in just one room away or an ear shot away but that terrified me that it could have been worse. Or something else, the what ifs. I'm sure this won't be the last time Austin will test his life on something but I hope it won't be anytime soon.
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I think every mom has that scare and thoughts but it's normal and we do our best, the point is he is okay and at least he told you.
ReplyDeleteMy worst scare was when Liam was outside playing in the yard as always and I sat down to nurse Marshy and stood up to check on him to find the gate was open and he was no where to be found. I flipped out and went running all through the woods barefoot. At the time he could not hear well so my calls to him went unanswered, we can only thank the good beings for keeping him safe. We as mothers try our best to keep our children safe, and sometimes events happen. It's life, it doesn't make anyone a bad person. It makes us human.