Our semi-annual Hospital Visit (around Christmas)

Last year, at the end of December, we took Joel to Abbotsford's newly finished hospital for an infected finger. This resulted in a 4 day stay.
This past Monday, it was Dan's turn. This would be his first hospital visit in 26 years. (Basically, he hasn't been back since he was born).

What necessitated the visit you ask? A lovely 1st degree burn to his arm (aka 1% of his body). You see, Dan decided that it would be a GOOD idea to catch a falling jug of hot water while at work. Please do not attempt EVER! This may result in a cloth diaper wrap (and wet bag) being put on your arm to keep the wet towel away from your bandage. (Basically, the wet bag started to leak, so we put a cloth diaper wrap around that to keep Dan dry, and the burn cool). As the doctor put it: "You have reflexes of a parent with a young child. Your first instinct is to catch anything that is falling."

Needless to say, Dan was sent home from the hospital all bandaged up with some nice pain killers to boot (they hand out morphine there like its candy! And tetanus shots.) The next night, we uncovered his arm and found a nice reddish/blackish burn staring back at us.

The pharmacist gave us some nice burn cream, a very expensive non-adhesive sheet to place over his burn and then some netting to cinch it all in place.

Fast forward two days and the blisters have started. Gross! A week (minimum) off work and Dan should be well on his way to recovery. Stay tuned for next week when Dan attempts to catch falling knives!

You know you're a parent of a young child when...

... you go looking for your pots and pans in the toy box, rather than the cupboard... sleeping in consists of 7:30am
... staying up late consists of any time after 10pm
... you know that the washing machine can remove stains, but crumbs are a whole other story
... everything you own that has any value is at least 4 feet off the ground and progressively climbing
... your vocabulary is reduced to derivatives of "no" or "stop" and the ever favorite "don't touch"
... the most used implement in your house is a broom, closely followed by a vacuum