Monkey Bars

23 hours ago, OldDude said:

Our playground doesn't get mulch (engineered wood fiber) added to it until we hear Chinese music playing from underground.

Best line I've heard EVER! ?

5 minutes ago, OldDude said:

That's a scary story...I'm glad there was a happy ending!

Welcome to the club!!

Thank you! I'm so excited to share stuff now!!

Yes it was a happy ending! He's almost 30 and has had no issues since.. by the time they had reached Texas Children's, it had miraculously (doctor's word per my mom) popped back into its correct position. We all still believe there was angel intervention because he should have been paralyzed and somehow came out of it with only a neck brace he wore for 6 months.

1 hour ago, OldDude said:

Hmmm...I recall seeing an xray that was being circulated around the ERs in Texas about 20 years ago...kid walked into an ER who ended up with a high cervical step off...quite impressive to look at. I wonder if that was your brother?

We're from Houston, so I would guess that it's very possible..

20 hours ago, meloyello234 said:

Like I said, his only symptom was that his neck was sore. I cringe now thinking about it because the PE teacher at the time told him to just roll his neck around.. eek!

Eeek. Indeed. Depending on what I was told and the child's presentation, I would have felt for swelling or step off and then told him to rub it when it hurts. I hate knowing that we can't catch everything.

Not a school nurse, just a mother/nurse. But geeze...should we keep the kids indoors sitting at their desks all recess? I have fond memories of twirling round and round on the monkey bars.

I know Bill Crosby has unfortunately become a bad name to bring up, but I remember one of his lines....when he was a kid all the neighborhood kids played in an empty lot, almost junk yard, full of left over concrete slabs and wood scraps, nails sticking out, etc. very few injuries. The city put in a playground and kids were breaking bones every week!

Our school has some type of 'glider' that is supposed to allow the kids to hang onto as they 'fly' about 10 feet. One day they stacked milk crates they found beside the kitchen door and stood up on them, flinging the handles to each other. One fifth-grader ended up with it impaled in her forehead. My question was 'Where was the supervision?" She had about 4 staples in her head. I wish they would take that down.

Most of our kids play on the turf football field. I've had everything from dislocated kneecaps to concussions from that thing. The track around it is concrete/asphalt, so I hate recess now.

On 3/27/2019 at 11:54 AM, SaltineQueen said:

Do you guys know about GaGa ball? I'm ready to rip that pit out. SO many mangled, meaty knuckles from that game.

We had never heard of this game in Illinois. The kids at our summer camp (in Pennsylvania) play it and it's ripped knuckles left and right!

On 3/28/2019 at 8:01 AM, OldDude said:

When I first came on with school nursing there was an old fashioned steel merry-go-round on the playground. Those kids would load that thing up and get it spinning at the speed of sound and see who could hang on the longest as it spit kids out who gave up their grip. I worried and fretted over that thing until I finally got it removed after a couple years but when I think back about it...I don't recall one serious injury from the "wheel of torture." ?

I loved going on that as a kid! There was one at a playground not far from where we used to live and I would bring my kids there and try to get them up to the speed of sound!