A Very Important PSA and Other Info

I am posting the following information from one of my on-line friends. I have had people laugh at me for my "over-protectiveness" in regards to harnessing heavy furniture. Laugh all you want; these kinds of accidents (and much, much worse!) happen. Please read and learn!!

"Please, please, please, even if you have children "old enough to know better," anchor your tall/heavy furniture to the wall. Do it ASAP. It was on our list of things for DH to do before he left in May for 5 months, but he didn't get to it. As a result, my almost 8 year old has a fractured skull. I truly believe that had the situation only been very slightly different, he wouldn't be here today. (I can explain more later, but it just could have been much worse) Even with the injuries he did have, he narrowly escaped having surgery, as he was leaking blood and brain fluid from his ears. He has some hearing loss which may or may not be permanent. He can't walk alone yet, but is getting there. This all happened Wednesday evening. He's doing great now (as great as a kid with 2 skull fractures can be), and has improved a ton in the last few days, and will hopefully be coming home on Sunday. I'm at home for the night for the first time since it happened. DH is home on emergency leave, and is spending the night with him tonight.

Please don't let this happen to you. I never would have thought that A would climb up on a dresser, but he did. He's about as tall as the dresser, and can reach the buttons on the TV on top of it, but climbed so that he could see how the TV looked up close. Nevermind that across the hall, there's a TV on a table 2 feet off the floor - he climbed the dresser instead. Kids who know better still do stupid things. So, please, anchor your furniture. I don't want anyone to go through the absolute terror that I felt that night."

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