Comments on: Wish I’d thought of that http://wolfshowl.com/2008/04/25/wish-id-thought-of-that/ "In these hands, I've held the broken dream, In my soul, I'm howling at the moon" Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:35:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-beta3-9791 hourly 1 By: brightfeather http://wolfshowl.com/2008/04/25/wish-id-thought-of-that/comment-page-1/#comment-1957 brightfeather Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:43:06 +0000 http://wolfshowl.com/2008/04/25/wish-id-thought-of-that/#comment-1957 When I was 5 years old and my mom was sick in bed. The baby who could not drink mother's or cow's milk required a powered formula that was made up using boiling water. Because the baby was crying and my mother was busy vomiting into a bucket by her bedside I decided to do the job of making up the formula myself. My mother agreed and gave me step by step instructions between bouts of nausea. Well, I was standing on a kitchen chair pouring boiling water into a supposedly breakproof fireking pitcher when it exploded and the boiling water bathed the entire front of me. My mom staggered out of bed and stripped my clothes off and covered me with udder balm which is used in the dairy industry for cows with mastitis. I went off to the hospital with the neighbour to be treated for the blistering that took place but they wouldn't admit me without parental signature so home we came again. For weeks my mom applied udder balm and then lanolin to my blisters. Luckily I did not scar. However, 3 months later our house burned to the ground. We lived in the bush and my dad was away working. My mom and my brother and I survived. But the child that my mom was carrying was stillborn and I was her midwife for the delivery. I am terrified of fire and very cautious around boiling water. When I was 5 years old and my mom was sick in bed. The baby who could not drink mother’s or cow’s milk required a powered formula that was made up using boiling water. Because the baby was crying and my mother was busy vomiting into a bucket by her bedside I decided to do the job of making up the formula myself. My mother agreed and gave me step by step instructions between bouts of nausea.

Well, I was standing on a kitchen chair pouring boiling water into a supposedly breakproof fireking pitcher when it exploded and the boiling water bathed the entire front of me. My mom staggered out of bed and stripped my clothes off and covered me with udder balm which is used in the dairy industry for cows with mastitis.

I went off to the hospital with the neighbour to be treated for the blistering that took place but they wouldn’t admit me without parental signature so home we came again. For weeks my mom applied udder balm and then lanolin to my blisters. Luckily I did not scar.

However, 3 months later our house burned to the ground. We lived in the bush and my dad was away working. My mom and my brother and I survived. But the child that my mom was carrying was stillborn and I was her midwife for the delivery. I am terrified of fire and very cautious around boiling water.

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