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First Burn :(

Filed under: Liam, Terrible Mother — Heidi at 10:18 am on Monday, May 30, 2005

Had a BAD experience with L. I decided to make banana pancakes because the bananas I had purchased two days prior were already headed south. (That makes me so mad.) L was watching me in his booster up by the stove so he could see. I was positive that he was not within reach of the stove, but when I moved the pan to put a pancake on a plate, he grabbed it.

Need I say how absolutely HORRIBLE I felt?

The poor kid has a burn and it breaks my heart.

We sat on the front porch and played in cold water to try to ease the pain. Played with the dogs a bit…Macey is doing well with the dog fence. I love being able to let her out and not worry about it. I had to sweep up the cotton from our tree that sheds every May because it was making me nuts. AJ and L played in the water. I hope he doesn’t get a blister. :(

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Comment by Kim

31 May 2005 @ 7:46 pm

Been there, done that…and it is horrible! Caitlin was around 2 or so, and I was at a friend’s house. I was rinsing macaroni when Caitlin moved the stool, climbed up, and put her hand on the still VERY hot burner. Had to take her to the immediate care center, because it was at least a 2nd degree burn. I felt like such an awful mommy! On the plus side, she’s been really wary of stoves ever since and a simple “Don’t! That’s hot!” is enough to stop her in her tracks. This won’t be the last time he does something that was “preventable.” You do the best you can.

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Comment by Debb

5 June 2005 @ 10:24 am

If it makes you feel any better, which I doubt it will because it is a self-inflicted burn, I burned myself this morning doing something very silly. I was trying to melt the ends of a nylon rope so Oboe could play with it without it unraveling. I saw the rope catch fire… I watched it burn slowly down to where I was holding it… I watched as the melting nylon fibers bent over and came to rest on my finger… and THEN I put out the flame. Dumb, dumb, dumb. So now I have two nylon covered blisters. It’s taken two hours of soaking them in cold water while I read the paper and snuggled the pup to get the pain to a manageable level. Oh, the silly things we do.

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