A couple of nights ago I got a call from my son Matthew in Austin. My daughter-in-law Amy had taken their daughter Kelly to the emergency room while daddy stayed home with big brother Travis, who had gone to bed for the night.
Amy is chairman of a wildflower committee in their neighborhood at Steiner Ranch, and apparently had several buckets of wildflower seeds mixed with sand in their garage ready to spread throughout the development. One was full of Texas bluebonnet seeds. Kelly, who will be two in a couple of weeks, decided to have a “snack”. I can only think she must have thought they would taste good like sunflower or pumpkin seeds. Anyway, she ate enough and told her daddy, “Yep, I swallowed them.” “Did they taste good?” he asked. “Yeah”, she said, nodding her little golden head. This prompted first a call to Poison Control, then the trip to the ER.
This is the follow up message I received from Amy this past weekend.
Miss Kelly (wearing big brother Travis’s shoes)
“….Kelly is doing much better after her Bluebonnet feeding frenzy. She was so brave in the hospital. Mommy on the other hand, was a complete basket case. When they had to put the tube through her nose and into her stomach to pump the charcoal into her, she was awake and not medicated through the entire process and believe it or not, when it was all over, she looked at the doctors and said, "Thank You". There was not a dry eye in the room, including her ER doctors and nurses. They were completely shocked when she said that and said what a little angel she is. She is our little angel in more ways than we know.”
I can assure you, these grandmother eyes weren’t dry either when I read the above.
Marilyn
October 29, 2007
Thank God she is going to be all right. What a scare her parents must have had!!
ReplyDeleteWe've all probably gotten some of our gray hairs from the escapades of our children and grandchildren. I know I have.
Thanks for sharing.
June