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Deanna You're not a bad mother we all do it. Sent eldest to a birthday party even though she had a sore arm. The night before she took the dog for a walk with hubby and fell over on the beach. Waited till the next night to take her to the hospital and she had a broken collarbone. When she fell out of bed and broke both bones in her arm she ended up in hospital in theatre to have it pulled into position. The second night in hospital she woke up wanted the loo and she tried to wake me and apparently I wasn't very nice to her, she had to call a nurse who woke me up.

I had my BCG, didn't react to the dasiy that I know of, but then they didn't chech anyway. my brother had his and I don't think he even had the daisy done. One of my friends had to have a TB test last year before she could get a visa to travel to the US for 10 weeks dispited having having a scar from the BCG she had in school. Deanna, your not a bad mother at all. I recently heared of a Doctor that left his son working arounf on a broken leg for a week or two because the kid was such a wingger, poor Dr thought it was just a sprain as the kid could still walk but with pain, he was amaised to see the xray. So don't beat yourself up.

I have but not till I was grown up and went to work in a hospital, never suffered any ill effects, all my kids have been immunised.. Barbara..xx

Yes OC.... the shouting at them and telling them to stop being silly... that is really the worst bit isn't it? That stays with you forever. Never mind.... all we have to look forwrd to is THEM having their own children and making all the same mistakes as well did!! :-0) Deanna X

You're not a bad mother Deanna!!! I sent my son to school with 'insect bites' only to have the school tell me he had chickenpox and my mum nearly killed me by thinking that I was just going down with measles when I had meningitis! I didn't have the BCG because my skin test went weird - I had to go have a chest x-ray instead, but it showed nothing abnormal. Bev x

I've just read all the other BAD MOTHER letters on here. I feel much better now..... wonder where my youngest is?? Could go and break somerthing for him !!! I'M KIDDING!!! lol He is 34 now and he can do his own breaking.... God forbid! Deanna X

I had it done in 1970 because the little boy next door had TB and me and both kids had to have it, daughter was only a year old . Ann :-0)

To continue the BAD MOTHER threads My mum sent my brother to school with pneumonia!!!!!!! Our GP was very consoling and said she wasn't to know. Son's teacher sent her child to school every morning for a week while he moaned that his tummy hurt. At the end of the week, in the middle of the night, he was rushed to hospital for an emergency operation as his appendix had burst. I however am a very good mummy and always take care of my children. OK, I watched as elder son shoved younger son into the corner of a radiator, but I calmly screamed at my husband to rush younger child, clutching hand to bleeding eyebrow, to hospital and wondered about how I'd get the bloodstains out of the carpet. nell

I got it, so did my husband. Marion

I had the first one but not the follow up

NELL..... I'm didgusted with you!!! I took my baby's finger of with a gateleg table.... He was munching on a piece of toast as I put the table side up For the childrens brekfast. I looked and thought.. 'no, I did not do that. Put the table back down ans SCREAMED.. Baby did NOT CRY until the surgeon took the toast from him, and then he brought th eroof down. He stiched it back on, bless his amazing skills. Deanna X Do you all hate me yet??

Deanna Don't hate you did same with eldest but it was a metal safe door. She pulled it down on her finger still feel sick talking about it needed 10 stitchs round her finger. Have come over all hot and sick now just typing this.

Right Dawnie, after abusing your original thread, and finding out that we are all *good enough mothers*, which is all anyone can be. If they all get the amount of love we give ours , they will be very lucky little children. I am now going to bed.... with no reading time left!! ;-0( I've enjoyed this tonight... Good night all. Deanna X

i havent hd it but my daughter has

I did. AL

I had it done not long after I was born as my Mother contracted TB - in the Hospital! I did have the test when I was at Secondary School, but I was still immune - yeah!!! Kaye x

Yep I had it - daisy didn't react so had to have the injection 1962. ouch it still hurts when I think about it. LOL Dorothy

I am the mother who wondered idly where her toddler had gone and decided she had put herself to seepie-byes in the afternoon. Going upstairs some time later to check, I found the wardrobe face down on the floor......believe me, I lifted that wardrobe so high in the air it nearly went through the ceiling. She was totally unharmed and fast asleep. I did not stop shaking and crying for days... OC

Got it done when I was a baby. Got the test in high school but did not need the BCG again. By the way did you all do what we did afterwards. We used to go around punching each other in the arm afterwards. We thought it was great fun( and that included the girls as well). I thought that it was great anyway as I didn't get it. f Spud

A couple of years ago when I was drying my son after his bath he said ''it hurts when I do this'' and poked his privates. So says I - ''don't do it then''. Next day after work he jumps up to greet me and wraps his legs around me - and says OW. He was sore there, so I had a look and it was all red and swollen. Ended up having to have one of his testicles removed - it had too much space in there and had become twisted. When the doctor cut the covering open it uncoiled itself three full rotations!! They are usually greyish in colour - his was black...... He sutured the other one in place so the same thing won't happen to it. Because he was young, the other one will compensate and he will function at about 95%. But I am forever on his case about wanting grandchildren whenever he does anything boisterous that could injure himself there!!