When we were new in Karlsruhe and it was a long holiday over the Easter in March 2018, T had sprained his neck in sleep and we had to take him to the Emergency clinic in Karlsruhe as everything else was closed during holidays. And what exactly happened and how things happened was documented by me in the post "Awwa". Cut to July 2019. Awwa - Part 2 happened when we had least expected something like this. How?
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I had gone to Stuttgart on Friday evening to support and encourage my painter friends Anagha and Anuradha for their exhibition of paintings. We reached quite late as Yasha, my partner in crime (we attend a lot of events together with our kids as our kids are of the same age) and I decided to go by car and Friday evenings are usually bad to go to Stuttgart from Karlsruhe. It's a very bad stretch and there was a lot of traffic jams in some parts of the highway. We reached after almost 3 hours and met up with Anagha, saw her paintings, gave her our best wishes, listened to the music jam there and after an hour or two, I went to meet my sister in Esslingen and stayed there overnight. Yasha dropped me to her place and went back to Karlsruhe that night
We talked till about 1:30 in the night and slept off some time at 2 am. Surprisingly, we all got up at around 8:30 am. Lazing around, we talked a little more, watching TV, listening to music and T was acting as a Spiderman by wearing his socks and trying to slip while walking on the wood floor. We didn't pay much attention to his activity and didn't realize when a small piece of wood cut through his socks and got into the sole of his left leg. It was a very thin piece and we tried to remove it with fingers and then with a safety pin. But that couldn't be removed. T took it bravely and didn't show any emotions or tears. He was little afraid of the prick of the safety pin, but he brushed off and started playing again. I asked him if he could walk and wait till we got to Karlsruhe and he readily agreed. It didn't stop him from walking or fooling around.
We got back to Karlsruhe at about 7:30 pm by train. T was his chirpy self, asking me questions about what will happen in the clinic and whether he will have to stay there overnight and all. We went to the Emergency clinic after having a dinner break. After waiting there for almost 45 minutes (there were many kids before us), the friendly doctor removed the wood splinter in 5 minutes and T didn't even realize that it is out of his sole. The doctor applied a band-aid and we came back home at about 10:30 pm. We were tired as we were roaming out and we also walked a lot. T didn't once complain about things though he was hurt though not literally. It wasn't a wound or a scar but the thought of a foreign body in his sole was not allowing me to rest mentally at all. Only after the removal, I was relieved and when the doctor said it's not a grave thing and that he could do all his chores tomorrow without any issues, the mother in me felt happy and tension free again.
There is so much to learn from kids in such incidents. Their resilience, their courage, and their mental strength put adults to shame. After coming back that day, he slept off quickly as usual and I was revisiting the events and was relieved that nothing serious happened and thanked God for giving me such a tolerant and strong boy!
Read on
I had gone to Stuttgart on Friday evening to support and encourage my painter friends Anagha and Anuradha for their exhibition of paintings. We reached quite late as Yasha, my partner in crime (we attend a lot of events together with our kids as our kids are of the same age) and I decided to go by car and Friday evenings are usually bad to go to Stuttgart from Karlsruhe. It's a very bad stretch and there was a lot of traffic jams in some parts of the highway. We reached after almost 3 hours and met up with Anagha, saw her paintings, gave her our best wishes, listened to the music jam there and after an hour or two, I went to meet my sister in Esslingen and stayed there overnight. Yasha dropped me to her place and went back to Karlsruhe that night
We talked till about 1:30 in the night and slept off some time at 2 am. Surprisingly, we all got up at around 8:30 am. Lazing around, we talked a little more, watching TV, listening to music and T was acting as a Spiderman by wearing his socks and trying to slip while walking on the wood floor. We didn't pay much attention to his activity and didn't realize when a small piece of wood cut through his socks and got into the sole of his left leg. It was a very thin piece and we tried to remove it with fingers and then with a safety pin. But that couldn't be removed. T took it bravely and didn't show any emotions or tears. He was little afraid of the prick of the safety pin, but he brushed off and started playing again. I asked him if he could walk and wait till we got to Karlsruhe and he readily agreed. It didn't stop him from walking or fooling around.
We got back to Karlsruhe at about 7:30 pm by train. T was his chirpy self, asking me questions about what will happen in the clinic and whether he will have to stay there overnight and all. We went to the Emergency clinic after having a dinner break. After waiting there for almost 45 minutes (there were many kids before us), the friendly doctor removed the wood splinter in 5 minutes and T didn't even realize that it is out of his sole. The doctor applied a band-aid and we came back home at about 10:30 pm. We were tired as we were roaming out and we also walked a lot. T didn't once complain about things though he was hurt though not literally. It wasn't a wound or a scar but the thought of a foreign body in his sole was not allowing me to rest mentally at all. Only after the removal, I was relieved and when the doctor said it's not a grave thing and that he could do all his chores tomorrow without any issues, the mother in me felt happy and tension free again.
There is so much to learn from kids in such incidents. Their resilience, their courage, and their mental strength put adults to shame. After coming back that day, he slept off quickly as usual and I was revisiting the events and was relieved that nothing serious happened and thanked God for giving me such a tolerant and strong boy!
Bravo tanay. ☺️👍
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