"Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer" (dash-doorhandle-and-bondo)
04/05/2016 at 11:54 • Filed to: None
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"Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer" (dash-doorhandle-and-bondo)
04/05/2016 at 11:54 • Filed to: None | 2
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Little kid with head injury, was a long day. Here’s a Powerwagon 200 I found in my work travels as a token for your time.
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Not bad for sitting in a field since Led Zeppelin was still on tour, but look at the poor smallblock.
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What the hell is up with that? Never seen that before, Severe condensation? Hydrolocked and parked? How do valve covers rust out like that?
Anyway, head injuries. My boys are boys. And they will be boys, at high speed and high volume, at all times. I love it. Can’t say I had much purpose before I was just Dad. They’re 5 and 8, Swimming lessons, karate, soccer, Lego, cubscouts, and the whole bit. Like all brothers, they’re constantly at one another’s throats, and at the same time the best of buds. Monday started as usual, with coffee, a shower, and two boys and a very large puppy chasing and yelling, at full tilt, back, forth and in circles all through the house. Mrs Doorhandle was off to work, and I was replying to someone on oppo, when the noise turned into real crying. So I come around the corner to two crying boys, ine bleeding from the head and one very upset. Somehow in all the chasing the smaller, more rascally of my two had split his head open on the tv cabinet. (the tv is bolted to the wall but there’s still the associated piece of furniture with all the boxes etc.) Ok mild crisis mode kicks in. I clean up the forehead and get the older boy ready and on the bus, while the little, bleeding one went and got his own bandaid. I got the little one dressed up to go for some stitches, got him out the door at which point he fell to all fours on the steps and was quite ill. Grabbed him a glass of water, and gathered him up. He was unsteady, weak, and wanted to be carried. Now I was concerned about actual head injuries.
It was a cold morning, My current daily is a 50 year old jalopmobile all iced up and would need to be warmed up prior to having the shit driven out of it on the way to the E.R. So I Grabbed a Carseat, threw it in the old toyota and peeled away in a puff of cold start smoke. This truck rides ROUGH when driven on smooth pavement at reasonable speeds, When driven as fast as it will go down bad residential streets and unpaved alleys around our old general hospital, you need a seat belt to keep you inside the cab. This ride was of the latter variety, and my boy was falling asleep/ passing out in the passenger seat. This is not good. Drive fast and dodge the craters, don’t shake the baby. They got us right in at the er. The team of doctors and nurses at our general are just superb, We were there a good chunk of the day, got our first stitches, concussion, and catscan yesterday. followed by juice and a popsicle. Poor little guy just wanted to take the popsicle home instead of eat it at the hospital.
Long story short, Massive Headwound Harry is OK. He’s been sleeping for over 24 hours, gets up and moves to another spot once in awhile, and had a late night request for plain spaghetti. Just a day in the life as it turned out in the end, but a long one.
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Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer
> Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer
04/05/2016 at 11:58 |
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Kinja ate the pictures of the dodge
$kaycog
> Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer
04/05/2016 at 12:00 |
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Scary stuff! So glad he’s okay.
vicali
> Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer
04/05/2016 at 12:16 |
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Glad MHWH is alright, we’ve got two little ones bombing around as well. No injuries so far but a handful of 1am trips to ER with croup.. one of them was while visiting grandparents at their farm in rural Alberta - Out Taco flew down the township roads at 3am with little-miss-gaspy in the back - I parked it half across the sidewalk in front of the er and left it there.
OPPOsaurus WRX
> Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer
04/05/2016 at 12:23 |
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yea i dunno how I havnt been there yet for stitches/broken bones.... kids spend the day trying to f themselves up. my most horrifying moment was going to go change a diaper and laying her down on her back only to have her start choking on a penny that was in her mouth. luckily she was able to swallow it and then poop it out a few days latter.
You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
> Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer
04/05/2016 at 12:25 |
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Scary stuff when a kid starts acting sick goofy, especially after cracking their head like that. Last winter the Finnlet needed a couple stitches because he fell backward into a table edge. Nothing makes you feel worse than seeing your kid hurt. It only took him two stitches, but I’d rather eat a puck and need another 15 stitches than see him need another two.
pip bip - choose Corrour
> Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer
04/06/2016 at 06:20 |
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good story for his 21st birthday party.
ttyymmnn
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04/06/2016 at 08:57 |
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A couple of years ago, one of my younger boys (one of the twins, who has the nickname Dain Bramage) was standing on a chair in front of the fridge, naked (don’t ask), when he jumped down and hit a puddle of water on the linoleum. His feet went out from under him and the back of his head hit the floor (concrete slab underneath) and it sounded like someday dropping a bowling ball on the floor. He never went out, but he started complaining of not being able to see straight, so I loaded him in the van and started for the hospital. About a mile from home, I realized that I had forgotten my wallet, so I turned around and saw that he was falling asleep and couldn’t stay awake. So I called the ambulance and had them meet me at the house. They checked him out, and said that as long as he wasn’t throwing up, he’s probably okay, and we could either have them transport him ($$$) or I could just keep an eye on him for now. We chose the latter. Not two minutes after the ambulance left he threw up. So, it was off to the ER, this time with my wallet. They gave him some medicine so he wouldn’t throw up (he threw it up) and then they got him in and did a scan of his head. He was fine, just a mild concussion. That was at least his second one, I think. This kid is going to have CTE by the time he’s in high school.
But that’s all part of parenting. The trick is not freaking out, because the kids pick up on that. It’s very hard for me not to, though. My wife is really good at it. She gets to handle all the bloody emergencies. Glad Harry is doing better. With those head knocks, it’s always better to have the big lump/bleeding on the outside rather than the inside.