Jun
12
I read this today in our local newspaper. On the front page no less- it must have been a slow news day!
Eric Lammers wondered if he was just a wimp when he felt the occasional shot of pain in his foot when he played soccer in his bare feet.
Now, the London high school teacher knows he wasn’t.
Lammers recently injured his foot while coaching at London District Christian secondary school and went to Victoria Hospital for X-rays.
“Sure enough, my toe was broken but they also found a little something else,” he said.
The needle, which appears to be broken, is wedged between his big and second toe. Lammers, 35, thinks it has been there for 13 years.
His mother, Nellie, had shag carpeting in their house.
“I remember stepping on something and feeling some pain. There was a little red dot, but I didn’t think much about it. That’s probably when it happened,” he said.
Lammers estimates the needle is about an inch and a half long, but cautions he’s a fisher and it could be less.
He has an appointment with a surgeon June 27 to see if the needle should be removed.
Want to bet that….
A. His mother sews!
B. I will be hiding this section of the paper from my family!!
C. I will be doing a better job keeping track of my sewing needles/pins from now on!
D. If they find needles laying around on the floor (head hanging in shame because yes they will!) I will not be allowed to live it down.
Thank goodnes we don’t have shag carpet!
Darn you Eric Lammers mom -whoever you are!
Monday was Baby Girl # 5’s 19th birthday. Boy do I feel old. I am much too young for my youngest child to be that mature! She traipsed into Toronto with a car load of girlfriends to celebrate at a Blue Jays game, and within a few minutes of being seated the group found themselves featured on the Jumbotron. Apparently they can die happy and fullfilled now!
Here is my beautiful girl then and now…
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Your daughter is beautiful! I love that picture of her in the wheat (?) field.
Awww, what great pictures of your baby! You’re right, you are too young!
Wow!! Happy Birthday beautiful 19-years old!!
Soft hug,
Rhonda in Montreal (PR)
Too funny. I especially liked “he’s a fisher and it could be less.”
Beautiful DD. My youngest DS isn’t far behind her in years so I know all about feeling the years zoom by and yet I’m still only 25.
I once read about a lady who after suffering from knee pain for years was found to have a needle embedded into a space within her knee cap. She had vague memories of feeling something sharp one time after kneeling down on her sewing room floor. My sewing room floor is a virtual mine field of pins etc… and I take my chances everytime I walk in there. What an adorable picture of your baby! I have many similar ones of my kids and my Baby Girl will be 20 in August.
This happened to me when I was about 20! Pain in my foot for approx. 3 months, and in the end a needle came out, and it was probably my own fault, not my mothers. But must confess there still are always pins on the floor in my sewing space (27 years later).
Beautiful pictures of your daughter. Belated congratulations to her.
heyy I wear my hair like that now!
Hey, the needle thing is real. I stepped on the carpet in our dining room cum sewing room one fine Friday night when i was a teenager and found myself in the hospital the next day having half a sewing machine needle extracted from the ball of my left foot. I guess i was lucky because as soon as I stepped onto the floor on the Saturday morning, I just knew that something was lodged in there. Might have been because of the excrutiating pain of having a needle tear the insides of my foot. And, yes, I still sew but my sewing room has no carpet.
Marie