If you have ever had to call poison control, did you ever feel like the operator was secretly laughing at you on the other end?
A friend of mine panicked when her toddler ate dog food. She called poison control, and was reassured that her child would be fine, but she said she could hear the operator snickering on the other end of the phone. In hindsight, she realized that if the dog can eat it, the kid can probably eat it too. And besides, it will make his hair shiny and his teeth clean.
So I had to call poison control last night, but not for one of the kids. For my husband.
John was complaining of an itchy eye, so he went to put some eye drops in it.
The eye drops were right next to a bottle of ear drops. The bottles are the exact same size and shape. He didn't look at the label. He put ear drops in his eye.
When I heard a cry of pain from upstairs, I went dashing up the stairs to find John with his head in the sink and the faucet on full blast. His eye was bright red and he said it burned, so I called poison control to be sure he didn't need to do anything else besides irrigate.
The operator was very nice and helpful and said he didn't need to do anything else, Then he asked, "How old is your husband?"
"Thirty-four."
I think I may have heard a little snicker...
A friend of mine panicked when her toddler ate dog food. She called poison control, and was reassured that her child would be fine, but she said she could hear the operator snickering on the other end of the phone. In hindsight, she realized that if the dog can eat it, the kid can probably eat it too. And besides, it will make his hair shiny and his teeth clean.
So I had to call poison control last night, but not for one of the kids. For my husband.
John was complaining of an itchy eye, so he went to put some eye drops in it.
The eye drops were right next to a bottle of ear drops. The bottles are the exact same size and shape. He didn't look at the label. He put ear drops in his eye.
When I heard a cry of pain from upstairs, I went dashing up the stairs to find John with his head in the sink and the faucet on full blast. His eye was bright red and he said it burned, so I called poison control to be sure he didn't need to do anything else besides irrigate.
The operator was very nice and helpful and said he didn't need to do anything else, Then he asked, "How old is your husband?"
"Thirty-four."
I think I may have heard a little snicker...
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I had to call poison control because Collin ate Balmex. Turns out, if your kid eats Balmex (as long as it wasn't a whole lot of it) the worst that will happen is some diarrhea. We didn't get any of that though, we were lucky. I think they were laughing....
Oh don't get me started on poison control. They know us well.
I've called for a toddler drinking windex and for a toddler drinking ibuprofen straight from the bottle. Same toddler.
But honestly, when your eyes are hurting & need drops, your eye isn't exactly open to read the label very well...I can see how this could happen!
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