Reply #24: When my oldest was about 3 he ran into the kitchen [View All]

[SoCalDem]

and said.. "Mom, buy me a handi-cat"..

He saw on on tv and HAD to have one.. Of course I never saw the commercial, so I had NO idea what he was talking about.,. About a week later we were watching a show, and a commercial came on for a local rehab center and there was a little kid in a wheel chair.. He ran over to the tv and pointed at it and said.. Please get me a handi-cat... The ad talked about handicapped people..:eyes:..

We explained to him that the LAST thing on earth he ever wanted was a wheelchair..

He got the last laugh though.. He was in and out of the hospital a lot in his young life and of course whenever we left for the night, he and his little friends would high-tail it to the storage room and have wheelchair races down the hall.. We came back from dinner once to see his chair TIED to the nurse's station..with him in it for a "time out"..they apparently crashed into a meds-cart and the nurses had had it with them..

Those nurses were angels.. they knew kids had to play..even when they were in the hospital..and sometimes (on a slow night) the nurses let them "run amok"..:)