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<blockquote data-quote="Danny Tanner" data-source="post: 1782773" data-attributes="member: 10619"><p>At most I can understand, if the kid appears to be OK, for the mom to say "ok, I'm going to run my groceries home and then be by to pick him up, but please let me know if his condition changes."</p><p></p><p>But as mentioned above, good for you for saving that little boy. I'm sure he doesn't have the world's worst mom by any means, but it's nice to know he's in good hands even when he's away from home. To be honest, I was expecting a story to end with something similar to "now the parents are suing me/the school for blah blah blah...".</p><p></p><p>We had a scary situation in our house 2 weeks ago. The 6 year old has never had an issue with putting things in her mouth, nose, or ear until recently. 2 Sundays ago she's sitting at the desk in the kitchen watching Netflix while I'm preparing dinner. I go outside to pre-heat the grill and come back in and I hear her in the bathroom throwing up and crying. Being a 6 year old that doesn't always wait for her food to settle before she decides to play, it's common for her to throw up once a month or so, but she'll throw up and skip away saying "I threw up!" like it's no big deal. For her to be crying, something was different. I find puke all over the hallway carpet and the bathroom. She's saying she's scared. I say "you always throw up, why's it scary this time?" and she says "I don't know". So I go to the kitchen to get a wet paper towel and a bottle of water and see a huge puddle of puke behind the desk chair. Which is the second clue piquing my curiosity, as she can usually tell when she's about to throw up and make it to the bathroom with no problem.</p><p></p><p>I go back to the bathroom and she's on the ground saying "Owie! Owie!". I ask her what's wrong and if her stomach hurts. She says no and points to her throat. Well I figure maybe it's burning from stomach acid, so I ask if it's burning like she's eaten spicy food and she says no, that it feels like a penny is stuck in her throat. I ask, "did you swallow a penny?" and she says "I did when I was 3", so I assure her it wouldn't be that. I ask her again if she's sure it's not burning like she's eaten spicy food and she says it's not that. I ask if she swallowed a chip without chewing it properly, she says no. I ask her if she swallowed anything else besides food and she says "I can't remember". Then the light bulb goes off, and I remember her being curious and playing with my pocket change earlier, so I ask her if she swallowed any of my money and she said no. So I tell her that in order for me to help her the right way, I need to know the truth, and assure her she won't be in trouble for telling the truth. She says "OK", so I ask, "did you swallow my money?" and she says "no, I swallowed one of my dollars." My dad gave her six Sacajawea gold $1 coins for her 6th birthday. These things are huge (well, bigger than a quarter, still way too big for a 6 year old to have stuck in her throat).</p><p></p><p>So I rush her to Mercy with the trash can in her lap, as the coin is tripping her gag reflex and causing her to throw up every 2-10 minutes. They see her immediately, do an xray, and sure enough there's a round medallion stuck square center in her throat. Mercy tells me "we're not equipped to handle situations like this.." (all while I'm thinking, "you're a fully functional emergency room and hospital, how are you not equipped to handle this?!) "...so we need to transport via EMSA her to Children's Hospital." All I see are dollar signs, but I'll argue about money and what they are and aren't equipped to handle later. Children's does an xray when she arrives there, the coin hasn't shifted. It's stuck in her esophagus rather than her trachea, so there's little concern for choking and she becomes a low priority unless she pukes it up and inhales it. So they keep her overnight, all while she's continuing to puke every 2-10 minutes (despite the anti-nausea medicine they injected her with three times that didn't do a single bit of good (which I objected to, because she wasn't sick to her stomach, it was a physical gag reflex)), and they finally get her into surgery a bit after noon the next day. The procedure literally took less than 2 minutes, as they could see the coin through her mouth and all they had to do was reach in and fetch it using forceps. Something they probably could have done in the ER (though I don't understand the proper process for handling such situations). So from 6:45 PM Sunday to noonish Monday, she couldn't eat or drink and was throwing up every few minutes for something they corrected in a matter of 120 seconds. I wished so hard that it could be me on that hospital bed throwing up, hungry, thirsty, and in pain. It broke my heart to see her feeling so pathetic, even though I knew everything would be alright. I can't imagine how parents with legitimately ill children handle it. If that's any of you here, you have my deepest and sincere sympathy and respect.</p><p></p><p>Sorry for the hijack story/rant.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Danny Tanner, post: 1782773, member: 10619"] At most I can understand, if the kid appears to be OK, for the mom to say "ok, I'm going to run my groceries home and then be by to pick him up, but please let me know if his condition changes." But as mentioned above, good for you for saving that little boy. I'm sure he doesn't have the world's worst mom by any means, but it's nice to know he's in good hands even when he's away from home. To be honest, I was expecting a story to end with something similar to "now the parents are suing me/the school for blah blah blah...". We had a scary situation in our house 2 weeks ago. The 6 year old has never had an issue with putting things in her mouth, nose, or ear until recently. 2 Sundays ago she's sitting at the desk in the kitchen watching Netflix while I'm preparing dinner. I go outside to pre-heat the grill and come back in and I hear her in the bathroom throwing up and crying. Being a 6 year old that doesn't always wait for her food to settle before she decides to play, it's common for her to throw up once a month or so, but she'll throw up and skip away saying "I threw up!" like it's no big deal. For her to be crying, something was different. I find puke all over the hallway carpet and the bathroom. She's saying she's scared. I say "you always throw up, why's it scary this time?" and she says "I don't know". So I go to the kitchen to get a wet paper towel and a bottle of water and see a huge puddle of puke behind the desk chair. Which is the second clue piquing my curiosity, as she can usually tell when she's about to throw up and make it to the bathroom with no problem. I go back to the bathroom and she's on the ground saying "Owie! Owie!". I ask her what's wrong and if her stomach hurts. She says no and points to her throat. Well I figure maybe it's burning from stomach acid, so I ask if it's burning like she's eaten spicy food and she says no, that it feels like a penny is stuck in her throat. I ask, "did you swallow a penny?" and she says "I did when I was 3", so I assure her it wouldn't be that. I ask her again if she's sure it's not burning like she's eaten spicy food and she says it's not that. I ask if she swallowed a chip without chewing it properly, she says no. I ask her if she swallowed anything else besides food and she says "I can't remember". Then the light bulb goes off, and I remember her being curious and playing with my pocket change earlier, so I ask her if she swallowed any of my money and she said no. So I tell her that in order for me to help her the right way, I need to know the truth, and assure her she won't be in trouble for telling the truth. She says "OK", so I ask, "did you swallow my money?" and she says "no, I swallowed one of my dollars." My dad gave her six Sacajawea gold $1 coins for her 6th birthday. These things are huge (well, bigger than a quarter, still way too big for a 6 year old to have stuck in her throat). So I rush her to Mercy with the trash can in her lap, as the coin is tripping her gag reflex and causing her to throw up every 2-10 minutes. They see her immediately, do an xray, and sure enough there's a round medallion stuck square center in her throat. Mercy tells me "we're not equipped to handle situations like this.." (all while I'm thinking, "you're a fully functional emergency room and hospital, how are you not equipped to handle this?!) "...so we need to transport via EMSA her to Children's Hospital." All I see are dollar signs, but I'll argue about money and what they are and aren't equipped to handle later. Children's does an xray when she arrives there, the coin hasn't shifted. It's stuck in her esophagus rather than her trachea, so there's little concern for choking and she becomes a low priority unless she pukes it up and inhales it. So they keep her overnight, all while she's continuing to puke every 2-10 minutes (despite the anti-nausea medicine they injected her with three times that didn't do a single bit of good (which I objected to, because she wasn't sick to her stomach, it was a physical gag reflex)), and they finally get her into surgery a bit after noon the next day. The procedure literally took less than 2 minutes, as they could see the coin through her mouth and all they had to do was reach in and fetch it using forceps. Something they probably could have done in the ER (though I don't understand the proper process for handling such situations). So from 6:45 PM Sunday to noonish Monday, she couldn't eat or drink and was throwing up every few minutes for something they corrected in a matter of 120 seconds. I wished so hard that it could be me on that hospital bed throwing up, hungry, thirsty, and in pain. It broke my heart to see her feeling so pathetic, even though I knew everything would be alright. I can't imagine how parents with legitimately ill children handle it. If that's any of you here, you have my deepest and sincere sympathy and respect. Sorry for the hijack story/rant. [/QUOTE]
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