A few weeks ago, I showed off my new Oh Joy! First Aid Kit which is stocked with Band-Aid brand bandages, Neosporin and adhesive gauze pads. The funny thing is that ever since I started traveling with this thing, I have become the most useful person around.
I mean, I always carried around Band-Aid bandages, but they were far from organized in a kit. More like a couple loose bandages hanging out in a purse side pocket picking up crumbs and powdered blush residue. Not exactly anything you’d want near an open wound.
Now, not only can I answer Mazzy and Harlow’s multiple Band-Aid requests, I’ve been fielding requests from other people’s children as well. I’ve also helped out co-workers, friends and my very own husband on our way home from Chicago. Imagine his shock after gashing the back of his hand on the luggage compartment latch, when I not only pulled out a crumb-free Finding Dory Band-Aid, I whipped out antibiotic ointment too!
By the time I post this, my family will be in Copenhagen, but as of right now, I can only imagine the number of injuries my family will sustain on our full day of travel. They are NOTORIOUS for travel injuries. Remember Mike and the sea urchin in Turks & Caicos?
HERE IS SERIOUSLY HOW THE FLIGHT COULD GO DOWN:
Harlow wakes up the morning of our trip, demanding a Band-Aid for a huge blister on her big toe. (I guess I should have fought that sockless battle a little harder.)
While packing, Mazzy gets her finger caught in the zipper of her suitcase. (Now we know this is an imaginary story because Mazzy has never attempted to actually pack for herself, let alone close her own suitcase.)
Once at the airport, Mazzy rolls her suitcase over Harlow’s foot. Harlow screams that she needs a new Band-Aid on her big toe. “Harlow, you are wearing closed-toed shoes. Your Band-Aid is fine.” “No, it’s not. It hurts! I NEED ANOTHER ONE!!!” (This part of the story is based on actual events.)
Mazzy insists on holding both her and Harlow’s boarding passes, which Harlow pulls from her hand, giving Mazzy a legit paper cut on her finger.
Harlow suddenly needs a Band-Aid on her finger as well. Have I mentioned that Harlow has this new thing where she must pretend she has the same injuries as everybody else?
Mazzy gets mad that Harlow is trying to steal her injury thunder and runs off to sulk in a corner. Unfortunately, the top half of Mazzy’s body has more momentum than the bottom half, resulting in a skid on the floor, effectively skinning her entire knee. “OWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!”
I rush to Mazzy with Neosporin and a Band-Aid, when I hear a tiny voice from behind me, “Mommy, I hurt my knee too.”
I give Mazzy a Dory Band-Aid and Harlow gets a Nemo. A fight ensues. “I wanted the Dory!” screams Harlow. “Your cut isn’t even real!” screams Mazzy. I give them each two Band-Aid bandages.
Once on the plane, Mike reopens his same latch injury while once again trying to shove our carry-ons in the overhead bin. GOD FORBID WE ACTUALLY STORE A BAG UNDERNEATH THE PLANE WHERE THEY BELONG!
While climbing into her seat, Harlow knocks the Dory Band-Aid off her knee (which is covering the pretend sympathy injury.) I give her a Nemo. She demands that I give her exactly the same Dory Band-Aid, of which we are all out.
After take-off, Mazzy takes an iPad break to check out her snack options in the inflight-magazine. All is going swimmingly until she sustains THE SECOND PAPER CUT OF THE DAY.
There is actual blood so I take her to the bathroom to wash it off. On the way back to her seat, she nearly takes out the flight attendant so I throw a Band-Aid in her direction for good measure. I also begin to wonder if I can use the adhesive gauze pads to cover my eyes and make my children disappear.
Just as I am about to doze off myself, Harlow informs me that her Band-Aid fell off her finger and she needs another. “Your Band-Aid is still on your finger, Harlow. It’s perfectly fine.” I then watch as Harlow rips off the Band-Aid right in front of me and says, “No, it’s not.”
I check my kit and panic because I am now running low on Band-Aid bandages. Maybe the family behind us has some if we run out? Will they call my kids’ cuts out for being imaginary? Will I need to find some ketchup packets and stage something?
The flight finally ends and my family disembarks from the plane. When it’s our turn at immigration, the officer eyes us all suspiciously. I realize we are all covered in Band-Aid bandages.
“Don’t mind us, sir. More than half of these wounds are imaginary.”
The officer understands. “Any chance you have another Band-Aid? I got a paper cut stamping a passport earlier today,” he says.
“Sure, no problem.” I hand him one.
“This is Dory. Any chance you have a Nemo instead?”
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Just describe an injury you could see one of your kids getting on a plane in the comments below.
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My daughter is so clumsy she gets hurt every 5 seconds! She usually trips over her own two feet or bumps into something!
My daughter will most definately bump her head on the tray table in front of us? Oh you don’t think a bump on the head needs a bandaid? It most definately does (according to her)!
My daughter would surely bump her head on something, at 2, her head is the perfect height to run into sharp ledge or table corner.
My son (3.5) usually pinches his hand in the armrest (because he’s playing with it, of course).
I then watch as Harlow rips off the Band-Aid right in front of me and says, “No, it’s not.”
OMG… this is EXACTLY what Elie would do!!! I can also see her closing her finger in the seat tray or would trip on the gangplank (or jetway or whatever it’s called).
My child would be the one to head injury from falling out of the seat!
My son would definitely pinch his hand/arm somehow either with the opening and closing of the tray or the lifting and placing back down of his arm rest)!
Hmmm…which injury should I mention?
1- Tripping over his feet while walking down the runway to the plane.
2- Tripping over his feet while walking down the aisle on the plane.
3- Falling off the plane seat while standing on it.
4- Falling off the plane seat while sitting on it.
5- Bumping his head on the tray table while putting it up and down.
6- Bumping his head into mine while diving between my lap and his Daddy’s.
Oh so many bruises over his whole body…it’s embarrassing!! haha
My daughter is 20 months, and she has also apparently inherited my clumsy gene (poor kid). Likely in flight injury: while running away from me down the aisle, she trips (over nothing), doesn’t use her hands to catch herself, and ends up with two scraped knees and a boo boo on her cheek.
Flying at 10,000 feet calls for unannounced sprints down the aisle of the plane, which will surely result in my 3.5 year old son tripping on something (or nothing!) and requiring any number of bandages. Lord, have mercy!
Pinching your finger on the arm rest as she constantly puts it up and then down.
My daughter would probably get a paper cut from playing with the in flight magazine.
My 7 year old, who has the window seat, will try and get up to use the bathroom and trip over me and his step dad and fall to the floor and “scrape” his knees. Or my 10 and 14 year olds, who are sitting behind us, will be fighting over some magazine and somehow both end up with paper cuts. These may or may not have happened on our flight to Disney last year….
My 2.5 year old will pinch his finger in the seatbelt, because he loves the power of being able to snap it shut. Screaming will ensue. When we finally get him calmed down, he will loudly “encourage” us to get up so he can run up and down the aisle, when he will hit both his head and knee on the beverage cart as he tries to run past the air attendant. Just guessing…
We’re going on a plane on Saturday so I hope nothing happens. That being said, my darling toddler will probably trip on her own feet while running and scrape up her knees for the billionth time this month.
My daughter would probably pinch herself while opening and closing the window.
My 17 mo old has-no-fear daughter would climb on top of the tray table and then probably lose her balance and bop her head on the arm rest on her way down. She’d scream until I kissed her head and then abruptly stop crying as if it never happened. She just likes to have her bops acknowledged 🙂 And then she’d do it all over again…
My kids never drink from cans…so when they are handed apple juice in a can, I freak. I know we will end up with cuts on lips and tongues. I’m so shocked it hasn’t happened yet!
It’s been long time since I’ve flown with kids. Do they still give out the junior captain wing pins? I’m sure my son would stab his finger with one of those!
My 11 year old daughter will absolutely spill her drink, which will cause her to react crazily, causing some sort of injury. Our daily motto is, “It’s not a meal without a spill!”
My four year old has my grace and poise (aka very little of both), so we would probably both trip and fall on our way down the isle getting to our seats. We go through a LOT of Band-Aids, and a first aid kit is something I need pronto!
I could see my son tripping while getting on the plane. I can also see him saying that he would need a band aid afterwards or he is constantly “hurting” his fingers so he can have new paw patrol band aids applied.
Well, my son is only 5 months, so if we did have to fly, I seriously hope no injuries would be sustained! That being said, he is incredibly curious. I can imagine that he’d try to grab something, like a boarding pass or Dad’s Esquire magazine (I’d say my book, but I can’t imagine I’d be doing any reading with a 5 month old on a plane), and get a cut on his teeny little fingers.
I’m scared this might become a self-fulfilling prophecy. We’re taking our 4 yr old on her first flight a week from today. I can imagine her pinching her finger in the seat belt as she demands that she click it herself ending in a painful blood blister. Or it could be more simple like what happens almost every time she wheels her own suitcase…trips herself resulting in a painful bloody rugburn scrapped knee thanks to the polyester carpet at the airport. But it is also likely that her baby doll Emma will be the one with the mishaps and desperate need of (fake) first aid. That Emma is forever needing cream and band-aids.
both of my kids are constantly needing band aids too. the most recent injury of my 7 yr olds is a cut on her toe. she has no idea where she got said cut, but she literally screams (while sitting in the car, nothing touching her foot) that her cut is KILLING HER! So obviously she would bump it on something (real or imaginary) and we would have to douse it in antibiotic cream and a few band aids. My baby would probably run into something with her exceptionally large head. and me? Well, I’m just as clumsy as them, so who knows what I would do if I ever tried to fly with my kids ha ha
Tripping in the airport because you are running, is guaranteed. Why do they have to run everywhere?
Also guaranteed once on the plane – paper cuts and nosebleeds.
My daughter likes to buckle herself so I could see her finger getting snapped in the seatbelt buckle or running and tripping because we run everywhere.
My 20 month old nephew would face plant as he runs up and down the aisle for the 100th time. This face plant would probably include a lot of tears and a cut/scrape on the side of his forehead.
Our boo boos aren’t usually cuts but some mystery bug bite! I swear a mosquito or ant can find my child in 10 seconds flat. Itching is bad enough but then there’s that pesky itchy healing time!
I could see my kid tripping over his own feet while walking down the aisle to his sit and scraping his arm/face/knee/hand on something, all because he seems incapable of facing forward while walking!
Funny aside – when I read about your daughters’ band aid obsession, I was like “weird” but now I get it because my daughter is the same way! She wouldn’t let me give her a new band aid for a week & she got this nasty rash when I finally ripped it off. She also wants band aids for the littlest things and is lucky about which one. Anyways, an accident that she might have on a flight is getting her finger caught in the tray table.
Finger smashed in the portable DVD player-I’ve seen it happen and there was blood. There is always the possibility that my 3 year old will make one of his brothers bleed 😉
Mine will undoubtably pinch her finger in the window shade from lifting up and closing it down constantly!
An imaginary one…one of them pinching their finger while playing with the seatback tray and needing a bandaid because it hurts.
I have a three year old boy, who loves to run so i could easily see him with at least one if not two or three head injuries.
I have a one year old, so most of our injuries these days are from hitting his head on everything!
My child is the king of headbutting everything (including me) accidentally, then saying, “I have a boo-boo on my head! I need a Band-Aid!”
We argued about putting a Band-Aid over his hair. He was insisting that it would NOT hurt to plaster one on his hair. Try explaining that to a kid; “Well, it won’t hurt putting it ON, but….”
Oh, and paper cuts. He’s gotten unfortunately efficient at giving himself paper cuts.
My daughter would trip going up the isle and get rug burn. She’s clumsy.
My 18 month old has whatever oldest sister have. So let’s say big sister were to trip in aisle, my littlest would be crying over hurt knees. Of course she would still be sitting in seat but who’s to stop the show from going on?
I can see it now….while waiting in line to get our tickets scanned and to board, Zeke will trip over the elastic boundary line thingy that separates the boarding classes. When he trips, he will roll down the tunnel to board the plane and scrape his cheek and shin. While he is ok, he will be screaming and require an entire pack of band aids PLUS a sucker to calm down. Might even demand to see the pilots and cockpit. After all is said and done, once we are seated he will say “mama I’m ok, I don’t need these anymore”
My 3 year old twins will race down the strip to the plane, trip and get rug burn on all four knees, requiring band-aids.
On the plane Kieran will hit his head opening and closing the window shade too many times, and Thoryn will hit himself in the head with the tray from opening and closing it too many times before takeoff.
Let’s see…
It could be when my three year old decides he no longer wants to hold my hand and pulls away only to land on his butt, scraping hands as he catches himself
Or when my 9 year old, the clumsy girl she is, trips on her own two feet and scrapes her knees
Or myself trying to be cute but failing to break in new shoes and getting blissters.
Or possibly when my 5 and 3 year olds, the fighting boys they are, decide the airport/plane is the perfect opportunity to show the world how stressed out and crazy their mom can get in 3.5 seconds flat and claw at each other because the other dared to breath.
An injury on a plane? Since we’ve not taken a flight long enough for the seat belt sign to be off for longer than a trip to the potty, the kid is most likely to bang her head on the tray table or seat-back in front of her. You know, a nice forehead injury for optimal bandage display.
We just got back from a flight and it was my husband that got injured (thankfully). We still don’t know how it happened, but one minute he was sitting there and the next minute his leg was dripping blood. Of course I had no bandaids with me (why has it never occurred to me to put them in my carry on??), so we shoved one of those cocktail napkins on it and just let it stick there until we landed. He survived, but I could have used the kit for sure. As for my child, the most likely injury for him would be stabbing himself with the straw that he always requests with his in flight beverage.
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My children haven’t flown yet, but at ages 3 and 1 I can imagine my daughter would smash her fingers in the fold down tray and my one year old son would easily flop and wiggle out of his seat onto the floor!
Pinching a finger while trying to close the tray. Or bumping an arm as he ran up or down the aisle.
My two year old would already be covered in bruises before we get to the airport from trying to keep up with her three year old brother. Just thinking about riding on a plane with them makes me think injuries could occur from the window, floor, escalator, luggage pick-up, arm rest, each other, and…bugs. For some reason my little girl always gets a big bite and reacts horribly! Band-AIDS would also be used for some extra lovin, we are in the being held all the time stage. We kiss pretend boo boos all the time <3
This pretty much sums up my dailyblife! You are so funnny! I love the fake injury phas though it does go away. I could see my kids hitting their heads on the seat in front of them, and needing a band aid…and my son would likely fall..because he does
My daughter is constantly covered in bruises from who knows where! I could see her pinching her hand in the seat belt
Always a blister on the foot from insisting on wearing flip flops all the time!
My daughter will most definitely bump her head on either side of the arm rest or any part by the window while I breastfeed her. And since she walks now and will definitely want to walk. She will most definitely scratch her arms or legs somewhere after stumbling down or hitting something since her skin is super sensitive. Her skin flares up from tiny scratches. We definitely need a first aid kit with us!
Mine would probably trip over on her feet walking through the aisle to our seat. Or someone elses bag ?
My son is the most fearless kid ever and injures himself minimum twice a day. He already has 2 teeth missing from an accident involving falling face first into a shelf (trooper). He would likely just trip over his own feet, but on the way down he would manage to injure all the body parts possible. Of course, no tears from this kid. He’d just keep on running and do it all over again!
We are accident prone and of course can’t get through an outing without at least one blister, scrape, cut or some other various boo boo. We would likely have broken something on the plane and mommy would be diligently “MacGyver”ing some sort of repair out of band aids. Just hope for our sake that I’m not fashioning a replacement rope for the air masks or taping up a broken window with band aids. I could see either happening!!!
Anything can happen to my youngest…
Went on a cruise and he cut his eye (needing dermabond) on the POOL.
Flew to Oregon and rented a car to drive the coast and he had an epic vomit incident that resulted in finding a car wash to power wash the car seat… And attempting to “freshen” up the car wth a roll of paper towel and Method multipurpose cleaner.
Going out to dinner and busted his chin in the parking lot on the way in, which resulted in a quick trip to the drug store for butterfly bandages so that we could finally eat after a long day.
Needless to say, I probably should have done something like this a long time ago.
Our little one might pinch her finger in the pull down tray table.
Oh my word. Our 18 month old could likely take down the whole plane… We better postpone flying until he’s a little less rambunctious. So, you know, when he’s 40…
I could definitely see my three year old pinching ho finger in the seat belt!!
My daughter is as clumsy as I am so hurts herself constantly. She’s hit her head trying to put the tray on the seat down. Fell back and hit her head in the small bathroom. I’m sure there are many more I’m blocking out.
These are only the injuries she has caused to herself. She accidentally causes injuries to others, too. Luckily she’s cute and they accept my profuse apologizes.
Well, we are at the lake for the 4th, and my 6yo had rubbed blisters on his feet, fell and scraped his knee, and somehow jumped into the lake just right as to burst a blood vessel in his nose, so he has sustained multiple nosebleeds, all before I even got here. (He and his dad came up a day earlier than my daughter and I.) Today, along with the multiple nosebleeds he has every time he forgets and dives in the lake, he also zipped his belly up in his life jacket this morning.
Mine would chew her nails and need a pretty band aid.
My children would probably get injured by falling out of their seats, because God forbid we sit still for more than five seconds, bonking their beaners on the arm rests then insisting they need bandaids although no abrasions are present!!
My child would find a way to ingure herself opening a snack!
My DD would probably trip and fall walking down the isle to her seat and immediately need 2 band-aids on each knee, one on each elbow and one on each of her hands! None of which are actually bleeding! And will also insist on being carried the rest of the day because her legs are “broken”!! (If you can’t tell I’m a pro at band-aids now! I can even predict how many she will need on each imaginary boo boo!)
Children running straight into those rogue pieces of furniture or walls is a daily occurrence in my house. I’m sure this would extend to seats, arm rests, tray tables and beverage carts on a plane.
My son will most definitely bump his head on the food tray or trip on someone else’s leg and hurt himself.
My daughter would probably jump off a seat and injure herself somehow, or just bump her elbow as we were walking down the aisle. Imaginary boo boos requiring ice are her favorites.
Definitely head bumps seem to be my almost 3yr olds most common injury these days. Mostly because she’s not looking where she’s walking or she’s just moving around not paying attention.
just a little scratch on his finger and my son swears that he needs a bandaid, even if it is not bleeding.
Pinching a finger in the pull down tray!
My daughter has the grace and coordination of a hippo on a tightrope. She trips and falls all the time. And because of her lack of coordination (inherited from her parents), we are no longer going to be investing in gymnastic lessons. 🙂
I don’t think my children can go a day with bumping, scratching or knocking themselves. Even if the bruise is bleeding or not the MUST have a bandaid. We go through a number of band aids in our house. It’s most fun for them to show off the characters on the band aids ?
My son would get a paper cut from trying to snatch the newspaper from the woman sleeping next to us. (He really likes to “read” newspapers.)
this accually happened the last time we went on a plane. My boy pinched his finger with the seat belt.
I don’t know if I’ll ever travel with my kids on planes but I’m sure it would be something with their toes – it’s always the toes!
My daughter would probably get a paper cut from reading books and magazines.
I needed this 2 weeks ago!! We were on a flight to Montreal and my daughter (her first flight) decided she wanted to investigate how the seat belt worked by smashing her finger under the half that you lift up, to release the belt. Swollen and bloody finger and our Band-Aids were in our check in luggage.
Ditto on all bandaid related stories. Our 2 little girls are in love with all things bandaid related. Quick question. I love Mazzy’s rolling suitcase! Who makes it? 🙂