Heart Beat Faster

[liralen]

Sometimes I think kids are around just to give their parents a much, much harder cardio-vascular workout. Today Jet decided, while Joan was checking out an alarm in another part of the house for just a minute, to travel across their living room and study their wood stove. Up close. And personal. He reached up and touched the fire glass and all Joan heard was two coughs. Jet didn't scream, didn't cry and when she got there, she saw him leaning his weight on his right palm on the ash catcher in front of the stove.

So she ran his palm under cold water, thinking that that was what he'd burned, but fifteen minutes later, his other hand started showing red on the fingertips of that hand. So he just got first degree burns on the tips of his fingers. Joan felt so bad, but given that I've been burned by leaving Jet alone for just a 'few minutes' I couldn't blame her.

I watched Jet pretty carefully when I got him home and he was using his hand indiscriminantly, so it wasn't like he was hurting too badly. He was, however, yelping a bit when he grabbed things really hard. Still, that is relatively minor and he'll heal. He may even have figured out that 'hot' really is bad... still, a ten-month-old does have problems with memory, so Joan's going to put up a barrier to keep Jet from the heat. That should be good, too.

Comments

Gods watch over small children...

[tryptophan.livejournal.com]

They say that the powers above watch over small children; you can understand why at times like these. Turn your back for an instant and they're into something. I'm glad to hear Jet is alright; this is one of those times where you just count your blessings that the injury was as small as it was and do what you can to try and keep it from happening again.

Dear god.

[kathrynt.livejournal.com]

How weird that he didn't cry out. He must have really, *really* wanted to know what was going on in the wood stove, and borne the pain to find out.

I'm glad he's OK. And, I'm glad he has such a responsible caregiver. That's an injury that could have happened anywhere any time, but the fact that she did the right thing IMMEDIATELY is a good bonus.

Re: Gods watch over small children...

[liralen.livejournal.com]

I'll certainly agree with that. Joan was feeling really bad about it but we both would probably have felt a whole lot worse if Jet had leaned his weight on a palm against the fire box. So, yes, it could have been very much worse. I am very glad it was much better.

Re: Dear god.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Me too! It just helped me feel even better about leaving Jet with Joan. Mistakes happen, and that she did the right thing as quickly as possible the instant she discovered things made me much more secure about leaving him with her, also having a full disclosure of what happened without sparing herself in the least for the benefit of Jet was a very, very good thing. I am very glad she takes care of Jet when I really can't.

Yeah. Jet's discovery drive is extremely strong, and, just like his mom and dad he has an extraordinarily high pain threshold, where sometimes it just doesn't matter. It's pretty scary sometimes, at least for me. I think I'm going to have to be very careful about 'safe' boundaries for Jet with the whole discipline thing.