Can I share today's emabarrassment?

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Can I share today's emabarrassment?
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Tue, 09-13-2005 - 10:17pm

I'm already laughing about this, but it was so humiliating at the time....

So....My brakes started making terrible screaching sounds today and I had to make a trip to the dealership to get the brake job I've been putting off. Because I couldn't let this go, and DH is out of town on business I had to take Kivrin with me. I thought I was really thinking ahead. I had puzzles, drawing paper, pens, stencils, snacks and even quarters so she could play with the vending machine (she loves getting water bottles). I also took my knitting. LOL. The only thing I forgot was the diaper bag.

Now. Kivrin isn't potty trained. She's not "great during the day, but still wets the bed at night" trained. She's not "getting it down, but still has accidents" trained. Not sometimes. Not even a little bit. She won't even tell me when she needs clean pants. Lately, she won't even admit she needs clean pants when everyone else in the room clearly knows she needs clean pants. I am in potty training hell.

So, just my luck, she had a MAJOR BM while the car is getting fixed. I don't have anything to change her with, so I just asked the woman at the desk how long until my car was done. Before she could answer Kivrin plopped down and squirted poo up her back and through the leg holes of her diaper. If any one of you has not seen this sight you are very, very lucky.

In a panic I forced her down the hall and into the women's bathroom where I cleaned her up as best I could with paper towels and tp and then washed her shorts in the sink and dried them with the hand dryer. The diaper was such a disaster I tossed it the trash and proceeded to clean the bathroom as best I could with paper towels and hand soap. I can't even imagine what it sounded like to people outside the room.

Then we emerged from the women's room; Kivrin in damp shorts and running in circles on her tip toes while chanting something incomprehensible (something that sounds a little too close to "oh sh*t my god" for my comfort...Ever been happy for a lack of clarity in speech?). Before I can find anyone to help me (1) get the trash can liner changed and give me cleaning fluid, and (2) get a diaper and wipes from my car which on a lift, two very unfortunate things happen. First, a fifty-ish, uptight woman hits the bathroom, and second Kivrin pees like a drunken race horse all over the floor, her puzzle and a magazine. By the time I get a mop and convince Kivrin that it is unnecessary to "make footprints" by stomping in her pee puddle and then walking all over the clean bits of floor, Miss Uptight has loudly lodged a formal complaint against me and my daughter for being slovenly and inconsiderate in the bathroom. At this point a sweet old man that had been sitting in the waiting room with us moved outside. I nearly bawled my eyes out right there.

On the up side I learned that a joint compression technique that an OT friend taught me does indeed calm Kivrin down when she's over the edge.

If you've read all this THANK YOU! I have no cookies or brownies, but have a good stiff Jack and Coke and raise it in toast to Kivrin...Queen of indescriminate elimination!

Mary

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Tue, 09-13-2005 - 11:51pm

Oh no, what a crappy experience! No pun intended :) That sounds like my worst nightmare. You handled it very well. So sorry you had a rotten day. You definately get your pick of the liquor store for that one.

May tomorrow be a better one, Valerie

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Wed, 09-14-2005 - 12:01am

OMG! That is funny! I mean, it's not funny. But it is. Oh, you know what I mean! LOL! How awful that must have been! I don't know what else to say but enjoy that Jack and Coke. ;)

Evelyn

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Wed, 09-14-2005 - 12:03am
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Wed, 09-14-2005 - 9:10am
I don't think I would have handled that nearly as well as you did. Hugs!!!

Pat


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Wed, 09-14-2005 - 10:15am

Mary,

Glad to see you working on that thick skin...

I remember when Peter was about 4 -non-vebal, non trained, I took him to see an audiologist to get his hearing tested. well, it was a DISASTER! Meltdown city, we had to leave without being tested.

Then I realised I had no money. Luckily there was a Citibank right there. Unluckily, it was packed to the rafters. Peter, who was on antibiotics at the time, made a big, runny BM in his diaper. We were in the middle of the line at that point, and he was fussing and stimming a lot, so I didn't want to lose my place to change him and prolong this lovely experience. So although he stunk, we stayed put. People were giving us a wide berth due to the behaviours anyway, so I figued I was the only one really suffering the odor.

It FINALLY got to my turn, Things may have been OK if I, unthinking, hadn't sat him on the counter...

"Thanks for banking at Citibank, Ms R. Have you heard of the deals they are offering at Chase?" (No. not really)

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Wed, 09-14-2005 - 10:40am

Mary,

What a nightmare! But you did handle it well and I am glad to see you have such a great sense of humor about it too. Also, as you can see, you are not alone. Eric is, fortunately for us, pretty well urine trained. But he is not bm trained either but I do keep him in underpants bc if I went back to pull-ups he'd lose the urine control, so when we have accidents they are doozies too.

My two most embarrassing incidents: similar situation to yours but with diarreah on a plane trip and trying to clean up a: the plane seat and b: clean Eric up in the tiny plane bathroom.

Our recurring problem: Eric "relaxes" in the pool. I keep little swimmers on him, but almost every time we go to the pool he has a bm there. It's not pretty or sanitary, but I can't exactly predict when it will happen.

We also had something like this happen once when we were riding bikes and Eric was on the seat the back of my DH seat. That was interesting too!

Someone should do a comedy routine about all our daily trial and tribulations. Who would be a good comedian to do it, I wonder?

Anyway, I hope you can do something nice for yourself tonight.

Sending hugs, pampers, and the cyber alcoholic beverage of your choice!
Katherine

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Wed, 09-14-2005 - 11:15am

Wow! Thank you everyone! It really helps to have people who can understand and sympathize. I'm really feeling much better today.

Mary

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Wed, 09-14-2005 - 11:38am

Mary - oh WOW! a toast to you!!!

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Wed, 09-14-2005 - 4:33pm

Thank you, thank you both.

OK, I reallize those are REALLY CRAPPY days (pun definitely intended). It goes down in the "ya gotta laugh or you would cry" category so I hope you don't mind if I had myself a nice laugh at your telling of both stories. I was rivited.

Here hoping for less crappy days, and no worries. Though it seems like it will NEVER happen, they eventually do toilet train and actually spend more of thier life trained than not. Though it feels like an eternity away now.

Renee

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