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I don't know why I didn't remember this before in this thread, but the Eagle bruises very, very easily. We like to wrestle which often results in him trying to pin down me to tickle me and me grabbing his arms to ward off him. This results in fingertip bruises all up and down his arms. I wonder what people thought...
Quote from: Mental Magpie on February 20, 2013, 07:58:17 PMI don't know why I didn't remember this before in this thread, but the Eagle bruises very, very easily. We like to wrestle which often results in him trying to pin down me to tickle me and me grabbing his arms to ward off him. This results in fingertip bruises all up and down his arms. I wonder what people thought...Who is eagle? Your son? I know when my kid got stitches on her forehead at age 3, I got funny looks at the store. I felt like putting a sign around her neck, "She really did run into the corner of the wall!" lol
Our DS5 is constantly hurting himself and getting little bruises. So much so that I was nervous last year when taking him to the pediatrician for his checkup that they'd think it was suspicious.I love our ped.. he just looked at DS's shins (which probably had about 10 bruises on them at the time) and said, "Yep. You're a 5 year old boy, all right."I guess they can tell when bruises are a cause for concern.
We go into intake. He sits in the corner while I talk to the very nice male nurse, who took my information and asked me about my bruises. He glanced at DH a couple of times, then leaned closer to me and quietly asked if I needed a safe place to spend the night. Unfortunately for me, I cracked up! Laughing when you have two broken ribs is... painful. But I've never forgotten how careful he was to ask me that in a way that wouldn't have alerted DH, if he had been an abuser. (He's still "Mr. Right" after 18 years. )
My responsibility to medical professionals is to tell them my medical history, including explaining that my inability to walk more than a few steps unassisted is what leads to my falling and the bruises. While I understand and respect their need to ask me about possible abuse, they also need to respect my answer.
I had an interesting 4th year. Within the time span of one year I was in the hospital 4 times, three of which were in the ER for a broken leg, dislocated arm and stitches across my nose and eyebrow (or just under, it's been 30 years and I have trouble finding that scar though the nose one is still visible). I also ended up having surgery to have my adenoids removed. Only good thing I (vaguely) remember from that year is getting my ears pierced. It's one of those things I am not sure if it's an actual memory or based on what I was told. I do remember being strapped to a papoose board as they sewed up my nose and eyebrow, screaming my lungs out. Got that from falling down the stairs. My mother told me that a nurse warned her during one of those incidents that if I ended up in the ER again, CPS might get called. AFAIK, CPS was never called.
Quote from: Figgie on January 27, 2013, 10:17:37 PMMy responsibility to medical professionals is to tell them my medical history, including explaining that my inability to walk more than a few steps unassisted is what leads to my falling and the bruises. While I understand and respect their need to ask me about possible abuse, they also need to respect my answer.A friend of mine ended up switching clinics because so many of the staff at her old one wouldn't accept her answers. She and her SO boxed, and also were involved in an alternative lifestyle. Yes, she was bruised, yes, he'd left the bruises, no, she wasn't abused was just impossible for the staff to wrap their minds around.
