*** Warning *** This story contains graphic content that childless people should not read.
Dateline - July 10th, 2009, Tukwila, WA, 2:30 AM PDT: I awoke from a sound sleep for no particular reason that I could detect. I prepared to roll over and fall back to sleep when I heard it in the next room - SPLATTER, "gasp!" I lept out of bed, scrambled for a robe, and ran to my son's room. I opened the door and - ewwwww. He was standing a few feet from the door, stupefied. In front of him was a small lake of barf and I had stepped right in it with my bare feet. It's been so long since I have had to get up in the night with him that I thought that my parental radar was no longer functioning. Apparently, I was mistaken.
I told him to stand still a minute and got some towels so I could make a bridge for him to use to cross the lake of barf (LOB) and get to the bathroom. When I got the towels his brain ground back into action and he was able to get to the bathroom where nothing else happened. All better now! Thanks.
I set about cleaning up the LOB, and boy was it a good one. By "a good one" I of course mean horrifying, but a small part of my guy brain could not help but be impressed. We had been out for seafood the evening before and Alex had tried mussels, calamari, crab cakes, clam chowder, chicken alfredo (I realize that is not seafood), a Shirley Temple, and wild berry cheesecake for dessert. Apparently, this was all too much for him, but it made for fairly spectacular puke. He had tried to make it to the bathroom, but he only got about 3 feet away from his door. Still, from this position my 9 year old son was able to hit the door and wall at doorknob level so it was a projectile event. Like a crime sceen investigator I tracked down high velocity ricochet splatter that had flown onto the floor, book cases, and the side wall. He had filled the little crevices in all of the corners of the door frame, too. All in all, it was a pretty thorough job. I worked and worked, thankful that I had wood floors which clean up easily, even as the pile of disgusting towels grew ever larger. When I was done, I had a complete load of dirty towels for my extra capacity, front loading washer. I cleaned, recleaned, disinfected, cleaned again, disinfected again, and by 3 AM it was finally OK to let the boy back into his room. He was feeling perfectly fine at that point and fell right to sleep. I laid awake for quite a while - a combination of adrenalin and disgust kept me awake along with the cat who decided that, because I was out of bed, it must mean that I wanted to pet her. With a cat on my head, and flashbacks of the LOB running through my mind, I finally drifted off to sleep.
Dateline - July 10th, 2009, Tukwila, WA, 2:30 AM PDT: I awoke from a sound sleep for no particular reason that I could detect. I prepared to roll over and fall back to sleep when I heard it in the next room - SPLATTER, "gasp!" I lept out of bed, scrambled for a robe, and ran to my son's room. I opened the door and - ewwwww. He was standing a few feet from the door, stupefied. In front of him was a small lake of barf and I had stepped right in it with my bare feet. It's been so long since I have had to get up in the night with him that I thought that my parental radar was no longer functioning. Apparently, I was mistaken.
I told him to stand still a minute and got some towels so I could make a bridge for him to use to cross the lake of barf (LOB) and get to the bathroom. When I got the towels his brain ground back into action and he was able to get to the bathroom where nothing else happened. All better now! Thanks.
I set about cleaning up the LOB, and boy was it a good one. By "a good one" I of course mean horrifying, but a small part of my guy brain could not help but be impressed. We had been out for seafood the evening before and Alex had tried mussels, calamari, crab cakes, clam chowder, chicken alfredo (I realize that is not seafood), a Shirley Temple, and wild berry cheesecake for dessert. Apparently, this was all too much for him, but it made for fairly spectacular puke. He had tried to make it to the bathroom, but he only got about 3 feet away from his door. Still, from this position my 9 year old son was able to hit the door and wall at doorknob level so it was a projectile event. Like a crime sceen investigator I tracked down high velocity ricochet splatter that had flown onto the floor, book cases, and the side wall. He had filled the little crevices in all of the corners of the door frame, too. All in all, it was a pretty thorough job. I worked and worked, thankful that I had wood floors which clean up easily, even as the pile of disgusting towels grew ever larger. When I was done, I had a complete load of dirty towels for my extra capacity, front loading washer. I cleaned, recleaned, disinfected, cleaned again, disinfected again, and by 3 AM it was finally OK to let the boy back into his room. He was feeling perfectly fine at that point and fell right to sleep. I laid awake for quite a while - a combination of adrenalin and disgust kept me awake along with the cat who decided that, because I was out of bed, it must mean that I wanted to pet her. With a cat on my head, and flashbacks of the LOB running through my mind, I finally drifted off to sleep.
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