Scene 1, a family’s home: The 7 year old girl starts complaining of abdominal pain followed by vomiting.
What did you eat? asked her Mother.
Nothing! Just a candy cane! Ahhhh! It hurts!
Are you sure? Are you telling the truth?
Yes! Ahhhh! It hurts! (vomits all over the place)
OK, well, I guess we better take you to the ER…..
So, asks the doctor, what did you eat today?
Just some candy canes!
Some? interjected the mother, You said you only ate one!
OK, maybe I ate some more.
Let me check something, says the mother (calls home on her cell)
What! How many are gone? THE ENTIRE TREE’S WORTH?!?!?
How many did you eat!!! Your dad says every single candy cane that was hanging on the Christmas Tree is gone (about 15+)!
Maybe I did eat a few more….. Ahhh! It hurts! (vomits all over the place).
Mmmmmmmm… delicious.
I’m guessing the kid won’t do that ever again!
I wonder if that’s enough peppermint oil to be toxic?
Sure, Doc. Blame it on Christmas. Now you’ve ruined this poor girl’s holidays for life.
I don’t know how in the world that the parents did not notice her eating all those candy canes!!! There is no friggen way that they could not have seen her eating 15!!!! I can notice when my daughter has eatin a whole bag of Hot cheetos !! for one, it takes some time, and you really don’t bite and chew candy canes, you’re supposed to lick them!! for two,, to eat 15 candy canes would definatley take some serious chompin!!! this girl is 7 years old, my daughter is 12 and I still know what she eats and how much! so I don’t see how the girl was able to eat them all at one time without the parents suspecting anything! oh well, I am glad she is okay! would if it had not have been candy canes though, and by eating too much of it like this case had made her body toxic, like whitecap nurse suggessted! I think the parents need to be more aware of their daughters eating habits, the only way to do that is to make them both eat 15 candy canes!!!
Mmm, minty fresh vomitus.
Stacy, I bet $1 dad gave her permission to do it. Dads are cool like that. Taking a kid to the ER because she vomited once or twice? Not so cool.
I bet that if there had not been that conversation, the vomit would have been diagnostic all by itself.
I did that once with peppermint schnapps and if she is anything like me, she won’t have another candy cane ever again! And minty vomitus? Priceless!
Geez, I probably outbulk this girl by a factor of 2-3 and I couldn’t even imagine eating 3 candy canes in a short period. Ew.
I think in this case, the vomiting is therepeutic. Get the offending sugar/mint syrup back out. Of course the parents would rather it lands on someone else’s floor besides their own.
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M – since it sounds like she was fussing quite a bit about being in pain, they might have thought it was appendicitis or something.
Or they’re just not too bright, I dunno.
None of us is as smart as all of us.
They have not been made out of plastic, have they ?
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