FallingToFly's son injured

[Skip1934a]

Falling's six year old son was burned on his face and lower arms when a yard trash fire that contained a pressurized spray can caused it to explode. He is in a pediatric burn clinic, attended by his mother. The incident happened last Sunday, and he will be in the hospital for at least a week. The burns are 1st and 2nd degree burns, and he is often sedated with morphine to control the pain. There has been a slight improvement in his condition since he was admitted late Sunday afternoon.

FTF has her cell phone with her but is taking only text messages. She will not likely see PMs or email while she is with her son at the hospital.

Please pray or send good wishes by any medium you feel works for you.

 

[toys_em_us]

Falling's six year old son was burned on his face and lower arms when a yard trash fire that contained a pressurized spray can caused it to explode. He is in a pediatric burn clinic, attended by his mother. The incident happened last Sunday, and he will be in the hospital for at least a week. The burns are 1st and 2nd degree burns, and he is often sedated with morphine to control the pain. There has been a slight improvement in his condition since he was admitted late Sunday afternoon.

FTF has her cell phone with her but is taking only text messages. She will not likely see PMs or email while she is with her son at the hospital.

Please pray or send good wishes by any medium you feel works for you.

Can I ask what hospital?

 

[Skip1934a]

Can I ask what hospital?

I have not talked to her. This information is taken from a Modeling site where she is listed as a model. I think the hospital is in Jacksonville, FL, but I am not certain of that.

 

[toys_em_us]

OK, I just know of a great burn center for kids in Tampa.

 

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[3113]

My God. Please keep us updated on this situation. Poor kid.

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

Best wishes to poor kid for quick and full recovery.

 

[Skip1934a]

OK, I just know of a great burn center for kids in Tampa.

Falling was in Orlando when she got the news, and the ride from there to the hospital was a shade over two hours.

Tampa and Gainesville (Univ. of Florida burn center) are less than that. It's right at 2 hours from Orlando to Jacksonville. That's why I said that. I don't know what JAX has for burns.

The injury happened a few miles east of Tallahassee.

 

[DesertPirate]

My God. Please keep us updated on this situation. Poor kid.

Please do!

 

[ms.read]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[R. Richard]

I go my candle lit. Updates please!

 

[lisa123414]

 

[joeys-game]

My god!!
Sending positive thoughts and lots of love to FtF and her little boy

 

[EmeraldKitten]

Positive thoughts and good vibes on the way.

 

[cloudy]

Bless her....most mothers would take all the pain of their children onto their own shoulders, and keep them from dealing with it, but sometimes you just can't. It's a horrible feeling.

Prayers going out to them.

 

[Vermilion]

Poor woman, as if she hasn't had enough problems. Poor little boy.
Sending love and healing wishes to both of them.

xxxxxx

 

[Skip1934a]

Yesterday's update from Falling-

We found a solution to the scrubbing up/ reapplying salve dilemma! I handed him the ointment and a mirror and said "fine, then YOU do it." And he did, with a lot of help from a mirror and a team of watchers to make sure everythign that needed covered got covered. Much easier than having to have three people hold him down while I scrubbed and then dodged fists and feet to reapply the salve.

His favorite grandma is here now, and brought a truckload of toys and books, so he's quite happy- happy enough to eat about half his lunch. The discovery of the playroom down the hall was great- he wants out of that bed NOW and is making no secret of it.

We're holding our own really well, and he's healing MUCH better than they thought he would in this amount of time. He's also started refusing pain medications at apparent whim, so I'm taking that as a good sign and letting him determine how bad his pain is. If he says he needs it, he takes it, but if he doesn't want it, that's that.

I probably won't update anything else tonight- just wanted to say thank you, thank you, thank you, and let everyone know how he's doing.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

That is some good news there. I hope everything continues to go so well.

 

[DesertPirate]

If he is taking charge of the pain meds like that, he is doing great! That is maybe the best sign there is
More prayers sent

 

[geronimo_appleby]

awwwwwwww, man.

positive thoughts from me.

 

[R. Richard]

Sounds like good news. The positive attitude is a definite plus.

 

[ms.read]

glad to know the kid's doing better. Always a good sign when they go off the pain med son thier own. ( or taper down) Im really happy. sending you love and thoughts of healing!

 

[3113]

If he is taking charge of the pain meds like that, he is doing great! That is maybe the best sign there is
More prayers sent

Very much so. Burns are the worst sort of pain, so if he's handling it, he's in remarkable shape...and a very, very brave little boy.

 

[Skip1934a]

Third day is always the worst. Here is FTF's third day report - a short interim report revealed that the boy needed a feeding tube (the NG tube she mentions)


Today has been hell. I begged the doctors NOT to put in the NG tube (a little thing that goes down the nose into the stomach) and told them that if they did to please sedate him and keep him there. They pretty much ignored me, put the tube in by having three people basically sit on him, and then he couldn't tolerate the discomfort and gagging feeling of the tube- he was coughing, crying and dry-heaving while screaming incoherently.

he had hysterics for an hour until I managed to put him under with a hefty dose of hypnosis/meditation. I hoped he'd wake up and be okay with it- he came out of it and went full-bore hysterics again, to the point of nearly injuring himself trying to get the tube out.

I finally had to tell the doctor that either he took the damn tube out or I picked up my kid and walked out. he did NOT come to the best burn unit in the area to be tortured mentally while going through hell physically. The tube came up and instantly his breathing improved, his heart rate dropped and his temperature dropped. Not to mention the screamig shut off like someone hit mute.

The doctor thinks I'm a psychotic overprotective bitch now, and I told him he was a condescending asshat in front of a floor fuill of nurses and kids. Think maybe I proved him right, but tough cookies. Mason has been eating and drinking small high protein meals about every two hours, and snacks about every thirty minutes in between, since we took the tube out. I told him we made a deal with the devil, and the payback if we don't hold up our end is not fun. He agrees.

He's still doing his medicine himself and tomorrow I'm going to be an even bigger bitch about them medicating and/or sedating him before whirlpool treatment- I'm tired of him fighting himself to hysterical exhaustion every single time. It's not helpful or healthful. Despite all this, his normal skin tone is reasserting itself everywhere he had first degree burns, and the second degree burns have dramatically improved in the swelling AND sensitivity areas. We did some grocery shopping today- got lots of high calorie/protein meals and snacks for him to have, and some bribes for good behavior (and eating habits).

I'm exhausted, achy, edgy and just about ready to cry, but we're going to be fine. We're getting to the point where we can see an end to the really rough patch, and focus on getting well enough to go home and back to real life.

 

[Chantilyvamp]

If anyone talks to her I have a suggestion if he's not in the best burn unit...call a local shriners group and get him to a shriners burn hospital. The shriners will help pay for her to be there as well. I'll just say from personal experience the hell of hospitals not being the best for childrens burns is well worth switching to one who is.