I posted a comment on Dottie ’s post. Her son may or may not have eaten ladybugs. It’s still a huge mystery. But I know this for a fact. Avasha ATE A BABY LIZARD.
It was 2003. I only had the girls and we were in Singapore. I was working in the doctor’s office at that time. Ashwina would go to preschool and Avasha stayed home with my mom. She was 9 months old.
A typical morning, I was getting ready, Ashwina was in the living room and Avasha was at my feet playing. The girls used to sleep on a mattress and I bent down to pick it up. Plop, a baby lizard fell off from the side of the mattress. I just shrugged my leg and left the room. Avasha was still playing on the floor.
I then came back into the room to say bye. And saw this black mushy stuff around her face.(I am getting a yucky feeling this very minute) I squatted down on the floor and then saw the most horrifying sight ever.
A WRIGGLING BABY LIZARD’S TAIL AND THE SQUISHED UP REMAINS OF THE BODY ON AVASHA’S MOUTH AND THE FLOORS. I can never ever forget the sight of the tail wriggling. (Another shudder)
I screamed for my mom to come, she didn’t even want to enter the room. My dad I think wasn’t home or something. I washed her hands, and mouth out. My mom asked me to give Avasha salt water. Is it poisonous. All those Hindi movies, where they try to kill someone by dropping a lizard into a glass of milk came to my mind.
My mum insisted that I bring her to the doctor. I said no, I will just call the office where I work and ask the doctor there.
And you know what was the answer the GP gave me when I told him my child ate a lizard,
IT’S ONLY PROTEIN DON’T WORRY ABOUT IT.
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oh my god. oh my god. oh my god. i am speechless. every bug story any mom ever has pales in comparison to this. but look at all the fun you are gonna have telling Avasha’s kdis what their mommy did. Truth is indeed stranger than fiction!
Me:You started this post.:)I am going to blame you when she gets upset with me.
EWW EWW EWWW…OK, there goes lunch. But yeah, doc was right – lived in a (usual) grungy hostel during college, and finding lizards (or even worse, parts of lizards) wasn’t unusual by the end of 4 years….on the plus side, built up fantastic immunity from such a diet.
But still…eww!
My cousin ate a cockroach (the huge Indian variety) as a baby – and that was bad enough….
FANTASTIC diet idea. BTW…I am trying to lose a little weight in a short time – all I have to do is think of this!
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Me:I wonder which is worse, a cockroach or a lizard. good luck with the weight loss.
OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG asaan i can’t believe i just read that!!!!!! hehe gross. i am honestly burping madly …. wanting to puke
i swallowed a fly once … omg it was NASTY! gosh, i gotta go puke. bad memories. byeeeee.
Me: A fly is just as bad.
yuck yuck yuck yuck. eeeeeks
i am still cringing at the thought
OMG!!!
I would have freaked out royally had I witnessed that scene!
ewwwww… OMG, you’ve got one he!! of a story to tell your grandkids. I often wonder what we did for entertainment before we had kids
LOL – this story made my day. Got to love kids – they totally put things in perspective.
Priya.
looks like bringing up kids is kinda incomplete without them swallowing something manifestly inappropriate…
i hate all children in all shapes and size but only because kids smell funky.
ANYWAY you know that thing you posted about the hamburgers on my blog? YOUR FAV BUAH DID THE SAME THING when we were kids. THEN she starts banging on about how we were *so* poor she couldnt afford chicken burgers.
but i still lol’ed at what you did. my mum cracked up to, which is what sparked the confession.
Me:Like Bhua,like niece.
oh and also, with regards to your story, i can emphatise because once a fly died in my eye. not a housefly as my eyes are not that big but one of those sad little flies that fly around lakes in england and it died in my eye. i know because i was out running and had to stop because it was in my eye and when i was rubbing my eye i rubbed some goo out of it and the fly was in it DEAD. i felt like a venus fly trap, only more attractive.
Me:A Venus Flytrap..rofl
Eeewwwwwwwwww!
oh my god. she is so suing you for this post. thank you !! ! now when my kids complain i shall show them this post. and when my neighbours complain that my kids are eating mud – i shall still show them this post!!
Me:I am going to blame Dottie. She started this.
eeewwwww
oh well I did go ewww when i read the comment previously and reading the post added shudders first to the ewww and then a big smile!
its was onl protein afterall! :p
cheers!
Me:I’m glad this post made you smile.
Ewwwww! I once , as an adult, took a swig of water from a bottle kept on the dining table. And then saw a big fat lizard inside it. Big Scream time. Phoned doc, he was most nonchalant. But I grossed myself out totally. Avasha’s story is several degrees worse!!!!
Me:Did you think of the hindi movies as well, where they show dipping the lizard in milk will kill the person. I swear thats was my first thought.
jesus…but nothing beats my brother playing with his shit! heh, wonder if he ate any….hmmmmmmm…….
Me:Stop it!Dont talk about that story. YUCK
Ohmigod!!!
i’m sure you were cringing every second of writing about this!!
yes, Deepu…don’t even dare to tell us about that story!!
speechless!
btw the header is utterly cute
Me:Thanks.They had so much fun with the pretend makeup and brushes
I shuddered just reading it. I would have literally fainted if I was to see it with my own eyes!!
ewww, ewww, ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! I think I would have hurled right there on the spot.
EWWW! Ew ew ewww! And I don’t squeal in disgust easily, but EWWWW! YUCK!
Rrright. So all that stuff about lizards being poisonous is bullcrap?! Whew, whattarelief.
As for insect stories, I don’t think I have any, but this from my friend’s stable is one of my favourites.
Me:That friend’s story was quiet gross too. I guess the lizards were all made up then.
My ex boss’s son did put some of the stuff from his diaper in his mouth. Or I think he licked his fingers after touching that stuff. So another colleague remarked that when he grows up and says ‘This tastes like shit!”, you better take him seriously. He will know what he is talking about