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Topic: Oil fin heaters are dangerous!

Posted By: mamanee
Subject: Oil fin heaters are dangerous!
Date Posted: 17 September 2008 at 1:49pm

so, yesterday at home Sam was playing nicely in the lounge. All of a sudden, he pulled an oil fin heater over on top of himself. (The heater wasn't on)

He was upset and I thought it fell on his hand, so I gave him to his dad for comfort and went back out to pick up the heater.

Little did we know..

The heater didn't get his hand, it got his big toe.

After pulling off his (red) sock and finding the blood to be pouring out of a great big gash where his toenail used to be, we realised that the heater had crushed his toe between the carpet and the sharp edge of the fin.

We rushed him to the emergency room to be told that the bone was completely shattered and his toenail had been cut right through and the open wound had gone right down to the bone!

He is now bandaged up and recovering but he's doing better than we expected. His toe should heal fine and the doctor said he will probably even get the nail back.

Guess who was jumping on the bed and laughing today!

You can watch them as closely as you can, but kids are always going to give you heart attacks!

The offending heater is now OUT of there and narrowly escaped a one way trip to the dump!

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Posted By: arohanui
Date Posted: 17 September 2008 at 1:54pm

Ouch, poor Sam, that sounds soooo sore!!! Must have been scary for you guys too.

Glad he's back to his normal self... reminds me of that pamol ad lol.

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Posted By: MrsMojo
Date Posted: 17 September 2008 at 1:56pm

Oh, poor wee Sam. I'm pleased he's ok though.

I couldn't agree more about oil fin heaters. I'd never buy one with exposed fins, especially the larger/heavy ones.

My nephew when he was a wee bit older than Sam did something similar he had his arms around the heater and was leaning on it and it fell over with him on top and one of the fins (with the weight of the heater and his weight combined) cut the top of his finger off (from just above the top joint). My sister took him and the finger top to A & E and he had surgery to have it reattached and is fine now. I don't trust them - kids+oil heaters are IMO a bad combo.

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Posted By: hooper
Date Posted: 17 September 2008 at 2:14pm

wow poor sam, glad to hear that he is on the mend.

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Posted By: emz
Date Posted: 17 September 2008 at 2:19pm

Ouch! Poor wee thing. You guys must have been petrified as well. Glad he is feeling better now and hope the recovery goes smoothly for his toe.

Posted By: Bobbie
Date Posted: 17 September 2008 at 2:20pm

poor wee Sam! that must have been horrible for you

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Posted By: Roksana
Date Posted: 17 September 2008 at 3:14pm

Oooooouuuuuccchhhhyyyyy...Poor Sam!!

I hope the wound heals quickly ...give him big hugs from us!

I have a 3fin Hearter in Z's Room and she never had accident with them, but I can see hw that could happen...funnily enough I cut my tow on her heater yesterday......

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Posted By: NeoshasMummy
Date Posted: 17 September 2008 at 3:28pm

Owies!!! Hope it all heals up quickly!

I myself have had a accident with a oil fin heater

But yeah dangerous for kiddies!

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Posted By: MelanieAndBree
Date Posted: 17 September 2008 at 4:51pm

EEEK that sounds sore!

Poor lil man, hope he is feeling better!!

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Posted By: Candkids
Date Posted: 17 September 2008 at 5:15pm

OMG poor little guy, hope the toe heals up fast

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Posted By: BugTeeny
Date Posted: 17 September 2008 at 5:31pm

Ouch!!
Poor wee Sam! (even if he is jumping on the bed with glee today)
And poor Mum!! I hope your heart rate has slowed down now!

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Posted By: Natalie_G
Date Posted: 17 September 2008 at 6:10pm

Your poor little man, hope he gets better soon.

We have a 3 fin heater for the bedroom, which will go to bubs room (when she has her own room). We use a gas heater in the lounge, will have to get a grill so bubs wont go close to it.

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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 17 September 2008 at 7:05pm

ouchies!!! We have never actually got ourselves a heater guard and we have an LFG heater

I think you just upped my determination for next winter.

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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 17 September 2008 at 7:31pm

oooh, Teresa if you want one I am selling one for $30!

Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 17 September 2008 at 8:28pm

OMG scary! Glad Sam is OK!

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Posted By: BaAsKa
Date Posted: 17 September 2008 at 8:34pm

OMG! that brought tears to my eyes!!!

poor wee Sam!! and poor you and DP Renee!!!

Im glad to hear he is doing better.

Posted By: DJ
Date Posted: 17 September 2008 at 9:19pm

Oh no! Glad to hear he will be fine.

Thanks for the warning - I have a big oil heater in our bedroom which we aren't using, so will move out to the garage - I thought since it wasn't hot it wouldn't be a hazard!

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