Mishaps and Misery (a.k.a. the lost Blackadder III episode)

[rj_anderson]

I have just spent the last 48 hours in hospital in another city with my five-year-old son, who broke his upper arm and wrist while bouncing on the bed with his father and brothers.* He's home now with pins and a cast, resting fairly comfortably if still hopped up on codeine, and I'm just hoping that the swelling in his hand and fingers goes down by morning.

Anyway, I am exhausted, but thankful to be home again.

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* No, he didn't fall off the bed -- that would have been far too ordinary. Instead, he whacked himself in the arm with his own knee. (I hear Douglas Adams once broke his own nose in a similar fashion.)

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[lizbee.livejournal.com]

Poor, poor Simon. Two breaks. Jules broke his elbow and his wrist when he was eight, when two boys threw him off his bike for laughs, and it wasn't at all pleasant. I hope Simon recovers quickly.

Are we all sharing zany accident stories? Rough-housing with my brother has caused two notable injuries -- one, the black eye I suffered the day before my First Holy Communion. Picture small!Liz walking up to the altar, all dressed in white with a veil over her fluffy 1990 haircut -- with a beautiful black shiner.

I got my own back, though -- two years later, I was engaged in a very serious tickle-fight with Jules, when I lost control of my tickle and overshot -- and knocked his two front teeth out. It was just weeks before Christmas, but somehow Mum didn't see the funny side. Fortunately, they were just baby teeth...