How could she be so stupid?
Sep. 20th, 2004 06:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lalicopaI left Laszlo with my mom for the second consecutive Monday while I take Lily to Gymboree. Last week I asked that they stay in the house so I could call to check...it's only a 45 minute class and it's only 3 minutes from the house, so this wasn't so much to ask. Today it's gorgeous out and my mother kept asking if she could take him for a walk. I put my control freak on hold and said it was fine, put the stroller out for her and was on my way. I called after class to see if I could swing a lunch with a friend before coming home and all was well, so I did.
I got home a little over 2 hours total since I had left. The stroller was in the driveway with berries on the kid tray. You know those berries you're always warned not to eat because they're poison? Yeah, those. About 20 of them. Some were squished and looked like they had been bitten.
I ran into the house and asked my mom if she gave him those. She said they were playing "counting and squishing" them, and that she watched him carefully and knew he didn't put any in his mouth. No way she could have known this since his back is to her while she's strolling him. I panicked. I don't know why she does things like this.
Called the pediatrician, who promptly told me to call poison control. Poison control told me that they won't identify berries over the phone and that I should go to the nearest nursery with a sprig of the tree (wtf) and then call back when I knew what it was. I said, "Ok, by the time I do all that, if this is toxic, won't it be done doing its job?" So she said that from my description they sounded like dewberries (I think that's what she said) and that they are on evergreens this time of year. She said that the outside of the berry as well as the juice are non-toxic, and that the seed inside is only toxic if it's chewed open, so if he indeed swallowed it whole, it's no problem. Honestly, I don't think he ate any of it, but I didn't know how "toxic" this stuff was, and I was sure it was on his hands and his hands are always in his mouth.
I didn't go totally off on my mom because I do want to have someone to watch him but I also wanted to wring her neck for being so fucking careless and stupid.
Flash forward an hour and we're at the park, mom went home right after I got home and after I called the doc and poison control. She called me hysterically crying on my cell phone. She said she's been crying for 2 hours (impossible because she only left an hour ago) and that she was so sorry and it was so stupid. I felt bad that she was crying, but was glad that I didn't make a huge deal of it and yell at her, because then she'd feel worse and never apologize and go off and say how overprotective and hysterical I am. Oy. Way to strike a balance, Jen. Kudos to me.
I'm an emotional wreck since this happened, can't seem to get back to myself. Hopefully it will happen later on, maybe a nice bubble bath will do the trick.
I got home a little over 2 hours total since I had left. The stroller was in the driveway with berries on the kid tray. You know those berries you're always warned not to eat because they're poison? Yeah, those. About 20 of them. Some were squished and looked like they had been bitten.
I ran into the house and asked my mom if she gave him those. She said they were playing "counting and squishing" them, and that she watched him carefully and knew he didn't put any in his mouth. No way she could have known this since his back is to her while she's strolling him. I panicked. I don't know why she does things like this.
Called the pediatrician, who promptly told me to call poison control. Poison control told me that they won't identify berries over the phone and that I should go to the nearest nursery with a sprig of the tree (wtf) and then call back when I knew what it was. I said, "Ok, by the time I do all that, if this is toxic, won't it be done doing its job?" So she said that from my description they sounded like dewberries (I think that's what she said) and that they are on evergreens this time of year. She said that the outside of the berry as well as the juice are non-toxic, and that the seed inside is only toxic if it's chewed open, so if he indeed swallowed it whole, it's no problem. Honestly, I don't think he ate any of it, but I didn't know how "toxic" this stuff was, and I was sure it was on his hands and his hands are always in his mouth.
I didn't go totally off on my mom because I do want to have someone to watch him but I also wanted to wring her neck for being so fucking careless and stupid.
Flash forward an hour and we're at the park, mom went home right after I got home and after I called the doc and poison control. She called me hysterically crying on my cell phone. She said she's been crying for 2 hours (impossible because she only left an hour ago) and that she was so sorry and it was so stupid. I felt bad that she was crying, but was glad that I didn't make a huge deal of it and yell at her, because then she'd feel worse and never apologize and go off and say how overprotective and hysterical I am. Oy. Way to strike a balance, Jen. Kudos to me.
I'm an emotional wreck since this happened, can't seem to get back to myself. Hopefully it will happen later on, maybe a nice bubble bath will do the trick.
