Comments on: Peace In A Dyson

By: Betsey Booms

Betsey Booms — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:19:48 +0000

So glad she's going to be okay.

Those kids, love to have weird things that scare the crud out of us.

By: Meg

Meg — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:53:20 +0000

I think we've all been there. On the day of my daughter's 2nd birthday she came up with what looked like a bug bite in her groin area. It was red and hard and had what looked like a little head on it, but I ignored it because I didn't want her to miss her birthday party. My mother, sister, and husband were all concerned, but The Birthday Party!

The next day we wound up in the ER getting boil lanced...she had MRSA, the horrible staph infection that the media was sensationaling at the time. I couldn't stop crying. I had let it get to that point because of a damn party.

So I totally understand. Chances are that she will never even remember it. Kids are so forgiving like that.

By: Jaelithe

Jaelithe — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:49:47 +0000

Hey, I felt terrible about giving my son a scar on his face when he had to have a (benign) tumor removed as a baby. This thing was a millimeter from his BRAIN and I still had room in my heart stuffed full of worry to worry about the look of the scar.

I struggled with what I initially perceived as shallowness and vanity on my part, but then I realized -- It's not that I would love him any less with ANY kind of scar. I think it was two things: one, I knew a very noticeable scar might cause people to constantly ask him what it was from, which might make him uncomfortable. I didn't want people to see a scar as the most noticeable thing about him. Two, I knew a big scar would be ugly to me as a reminder of his injury. As a reminder that my child had been in pain.

(Anyway, these days you can hardly see the scar. But I've told him to tell anyone who asks about it that he got it in a battle with an evil wizard just like Harry Potter.)

By: Her Bad Mother

Her Bad Mother — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:29:40 +0000

Bea – yes, I think that it was because she looked endangered. But there was the fleeting, terrible thought of 'what if she stays this way? what if this disfigures her?'

Which, yuck. Yuck to the feeling and yuck to the fear.

By: Elda - Peace in the Storm

Elda - Peace in the Storm — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:34:40 +0000

The important thing is that she is okay and that you DID take her to receive medical attention.

It could have been ANYTHING. If my kids get stung by mosquitoes their faces swell up like crazy. MOSQUITOES! Just about everyone deals with them, but leave it to my kids to get an allergic reaction.

Despite what your blog name says, you're not a bad mother.

By: Bea

Bea — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 03:23:26 +0000

Of course you hated to see her looking that way, but I don't think that's about aesthetics, about her looking unattractive. Isn't it because she looked endangered?

By: Mrs. Schmitty

Mrs. Schmitty — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 02:15:50 +0000

I'm glad she's okay. The same thing happened to my daughter last year. Swelled her eye completely shut.

P.S. I clean when I'm upset too, it's usually folding laundry.

By: Meli

Meli — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:53:09 +0000

Aw poor baby. I am glad that she is going to be OK.

By: Tara

Tara — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:55:47 +0000

But when you got home from the hospital and everything was ok, you came home to a house with a clean floor, which would be comforting. It's always nice to come home to clean. Especially after something traumatic.

I know that's not the point of your post.

By: Suzie

Suzie — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:52:41 +0000

My little 4 yr old has trouble with bug bites too poor thing!

Last time it was his ear… looked like Dumbo, poor guy. It was back to normal in two days, thank goodness!