Anyone else have accident prone kids?

[boomhower]

My six year old has had more X-Rays than me. In the last month she broke her hand and went today for a cat scan, both happened at school. Last year she cracked her sternum. She's killing me in medical bills!

 

[sixone]

Don't have one. Was one.

Don't think I ever had X-rays, tho. I got stitches.

 

[Mixolydian]

stop having dumbass kids.

 

[DrPizza]

I'll challenge your kid.
During the past 15 months:
*Tore the meniscus in my knee playing dodgeball.
*While climbing into the bucket of my tractor, which was up as high as possible (to tie a rope to a tree I was pulling over), the bucket wasn't latched, it tipped, I fell out. Fortunately, my ankle and shin got stuck between two pieces of metal in the frame. I was left hanging upside down. Thought my leg was broken; back to limping with a reinjured knee.
*Catching a swarm of honey bees. Oooops, branch slipped. Knocked 10,000 bees onto my head and down my face. (No protective gear on; shorts, t-shirt.) I did the only natural thing - I jumped backwards. Ooops, forgot I was on the very top of a ladder. Limping again.
*Lifting the tongue on a trailer, as it was sinking into mud. Didn't notice the boards the tires were parked on had sunk into the mud & were no longer level. Trailer rolls forward; strikes the bad knee laterally. Limping again.
*Pounding posts with a 17 pound post pounder. Lifted it too high while busting my ass working hard doing it. It came down, nicked the edge of the post, causing it to rotate forward into my head, knocking me down like an overcooked spaghetti noodle trying to stay upright.
*And, I did it again. Post was hitting a rock in the ground. I was putting everything I've got into it, driving the steel post through the rock (typical field stone; usually will break in half if you hit it hard enough a few times.) Ended up rolling on the ground with blood spraying from my head. Even with pressure on it from my hands, blood was oozing from between my fingers for a couple minutes; couldn't see through my glasses because they were solid blood. 15 minute walk to get out of the back pasture and to the road. My brother all but passed out from the sight of the blood & had to call someone else to take me to urgi-care. (I was fine; just a lot of blood - typical head wound.)


But, medical bills? I think I had two $10 copays for visits, and 3 or 4 $10 copays for medicine. Insurance paid for almost everything else; and the copays for physical therapy were written off by the hospital, since my wife is a nurse/manager there.
Thinking back on it; if my choices were doing all the things I did & wind up with those injuries again, versus sitting on the couch watching Honey Boo Boo or Jersey Shore, I'd take the injuries in a heartbeat.

 

[RossMAN]

Thinking back on it; if my choices were doing all the things I did & wind up with those injuries again, versus sitting on the couch watching Honey Boo Boo or Jersey Shore, I'd take the injuries in a heartbeat.

/me tries to imagine DrPizza sitting on a couch watching Jersey Shore eating bon bons while laying down the law on ATOT with an iPad.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

My six year old has had more X-Rays than me. In the last month she broke her hand and went today for a cat scan, both happened at school. Last year she cracked her sternum. She's killing me in medical bills!

I broke my first bone at age 3. I went off a 40' wall near the tenement building my family lived in. That started a career but I finally grew up. I have broken at least 13 bones to date, including both legs--not at the same time.

 

[Leopardos]

God,
I hate people who are cheap to spend money on healthcare, specially for their own kids.

You seem a very bad parent.
I would die to prevent any harm to my kids, even alittle scratch.

 

[CPA]

God,
I hate people who are cheap to spend money on healthcare, specially for their own kids.

You seem a very bad parent.
I would die to prevent any harm to my kids, even alittle scratch.

Which is equally as bad. Kids need to get bruises and scratches. It's part of growing up, letting them make mistakes, letting them understand the consequence of their mistake. You can't let them live in a bubble.

And OP, I have a 16 year old who's hit about every wall and door in the house.

 

[JEDI]

God,
I hate people who are cheap to spend money on healthcare, specially for their own kids.

You seem a very bad parent.
I would die to prevent any harm to my kids, even alittle scratch.

pppffft... helicopter parent

throw them into the deep end of the pool to make them how to learn.
dont wrap them in bubble wrap

 

[Leopardos]

pppffft... helicopter parent

throw them into the deep end of the pool to make them how to learn.
dont wrap them in bubble wrap

Kids do get scratches, dont catch me on single words.
I meant in general...

The guy seems to be upset mostly about bills nothing else.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

God,
I hate people who are cheap to spend money on healthcare, specially for their own kids.

You seem a very bad parent.
I would die to prevent any harm to my kids, even alittle scratch.

This is why some kids can't have nice things.

 

[SheHateMe]

Accident prone kid, huh?

uh huh...



:sneaky:

 

[SearchMaster]

Not really, 3 boys and zero broken bones. They've had their trouble with illnesses but not accidents.

 

[pmv]

pppffft... helicopter parent

throw them into the deep end of the pool to make them how to learn.
dont wrap them in bubble wrap

Whatever course you take, don't do both of the above simultaneously.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

I'll challenge your kid.
During the past 15 months:
*Tore the meniscus in my knee playing dodgeball.
*While climbing into the bucket of my tractor, which was up as high as possible (to tie a rope to a tree I was pulling over), the bucket wasn't latched, it tipped, I fell out. Fortunately, my ankle and shin got stuck between two pieces of metal in the frame. I was left hanging upside down. Thought my leg was broken; back to limping with a reinjured knee.
*Catching a swarm of honey bees. Oooops, branch slipped. Knocked 10,000 bees onto my head and down my face. (No protective gear on; shorts, t-shirt.) I did the only natural thing - I jumped backwards. Ooops, forgot I was on the very top of a ladder. Limping again.
*Lifting the tongue on a trailer, as it was sinking into mud. Didn't notice the boards the tires were parked on had sunk into the mud & were no longer level. Trailer rolls forward; strikes the bad knee laterally. Limping again.
*Pounding posts with a 17 pound post pounder. Lifted it too high while busting my ass working hard doing it. It came down, nicked the edge of the post, causing it to rotate forward into my head, knocking me down like an overcooked spaghetti noodle trying to stay upright.
*And, I did it again. Post was hitting a rock in the ground. I was putting everything I've got into it, driving the steel post through the rock (typical field stone; usually will break in half if you hit it hard enough a few times.) Ended up rolling on the ground with blood spraying from my head. Even with pressure on it from my hands, blood was oozing from between my fingers for a couple minutes; couldn't see through my glasses because they were solid blood. 15 minute walk to get out of the back pasture and to the road. My brother all but passed out from the sight of the blood & had to call someone else to take me to urgi-care. (I was fine; just a lot of blood - typical head wound.)


But, medical bills? I think I had two $10 copays for visits, and 3 or 4 $10 copays for medicine. Insurance paid for almost everything else; and the copays for physical therapy were written off by the hospital, since my wife is a nurse/manager there.
Thinking back on it; if my choices were doing all the things I did & wind up with those injuries again, versus sitting on the couch watching Honey Boo Boo or Jersey Shore, I'd take the injuries in a heartbeat.

I hope you don't mind that I had a laugh at your expense. But, that read like Clark Griswold bought a farm! I had knee surgery a year ago this week, so I know how that goes.

As to my kid being accident prone? Nope. Some road rash, nicks and dings, typical active kid stuff. Teaching him ukemi (break falling) from an early age, has proven to be time well invested.

 

[DrPizza]

God,
I hate people who are cheap to spend money on healthcare, specially for their own kids.

You seem a very bad parent.
I would die to prevent any harm to my kids, even alittle scratch.

Your poor kids.

My kids had all sorts of injuries. For boys, they had a very enriched childhood. We had plenty of trips to the ER for stitches and/or x-rays. I'll bet that if you ask my kids "would you have rather grown up the way I'm raising my children, instead of race in motocross, go to skate parks, etc.?" They'd say "fuck no."

Heck, when my younger son broke his leg in motocross warmups one morning, he was sitting on a chair, ice on his ankle/lower leg, in pain. He said, "It might be broken." I said, "you better be sure it's broken, because you're going to look like a sissy if you go to the ER and it's just a bruise. You know this is a rough sport. If you can't hack it, you should take up butterfly collecting." I felt pretty bad later, because he raced 3 more races that day, in pain. Turns out that his leg was broken. I'll bet you that if you asked him, "if you could do it over again, would you go to the ER, or would you race?" he'd answer, "I'd still race." For the following weeks, spent a chunk of change on a new set of racing boots and gave him a dremel to modify his cast so that he could get the boot on. Then, spent another chunk of change on a custom brace made specifically for that purpose.

 

[Printer Bandit]

National Child Abuse Hotline: 1-800-4-A-CHILD (1-800-422-4453)

 

[Baked]

I had to go to ER twice, once I broke my wrist playing basketball, the other time I got hit, then rolled over by a car. All the other cuts and road rashes I just take care at home with bandaids.

 

[blackdogdeek]

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Dude some crazy stuff sure happens to you.

On topic, I wouldn't say my kids are accident prone but they've had their share of injuries.

child1:

1. at age 2.5 - buckle fracture in forearm from putting body weight on one arm while getting off a chair in the bagel shop. result: arm cast for 6 weeks
2. at age 8 - complete elbow dislocation from hyperextended elbow during front handspring. result: soft cast for 4 weeks

child2:

1. at age 1.5 - high femur break from leaping from park playground platform to reach monkey bars (she missed by like 2 feet) and landing awkwardly on ground. result: body cast from waist to ankle on one leg and from waist to knee on other leg for 6 weeks

 

[SphinxnihpS]

God,
I hate people who are cheap to spend money on healthcare, specially for their own kids.

You seem a very bad parent.
I would die to prevent any harm to my kids, even alittle scratch.

Wow!

 

[etrigan420]

4 kids and the only ER visit was when my oldest boy (9 or 10 at the time) ran head first into a metal fence post while chasing a ball at school.

Derma-bond and a concussion check and we were out the door.

 

[boomhower]

God,
I hate people who are cheap to spend money on healthcare, specially for their own kids.

You seem a very bad parent.
I would die to prevent any harm to my kids, even alittle scratch.

WTF? My daughter is well insured with a private Blue Cross Blue Shield plan. $150 ER copays plus ortho follow ups still rings up the register pretty quick. I would and do do anything for my kids.

National Child Abuse Hotline: 1-800-4-A-CHILD (1-800-422-4453)

Haha. Last two incidents happened at school. Broke sternum at the neighbors on a swing set.