Hey…that’s my reaction when kidlet hurts herself…if she can walk its probably ok, if not then I look closer.
And I do use “I’ll give you something to cry abt” - if you want to snivel and whine about inconsequential things I sure as heck ain’t gonna put up with it and you punishment WILL be something that is worth crying about.
You’re fucking stupid.
First off, you’re not paying for the ride. You’re paying for the people with expertise to know if your child is okay. And the chance of her not being okay is much higher than one in a million.
Any parent that values money more than their kid is a shitty parent. If you* are doing a cost benefit analysis of that rather doing your best to help your kid out, then I hope a stray fragment of lead winds up in your skull.
*Rhetorical you [sub](I hope)[/sub]
No, you’re fucking stupid. Everything is a cost benefit analysis. Does your child have a fever? It could be the first sign of meningitis. Sure, the odds are a million to one against, but you’d better get a lumbar puncture just to be sure. No point waiting for other symptoms.
Are the risks of meningitis worth the costs of performing thousands of needless tests? Is that a headache or a brain tumor? Just think how bad you would feel if you guessed wrong. Better warm up the cat scan.
Of course, you’ve increased her chances for cancer with every scan, but it’s better to be safe, right? But are you safe? What if the ambulance had an accident on the way to the hospital? Better to have the kid locked up at home and buy your own cat scanner. Sure, it costs a lot, but when it comes to safety you can’t value money more than your child’s life.
Look at the case in the OP. A kid slides down a slide, drops a few inches onto soft mulch, and gets the wind knocked out of her. The kid does that gasping thing they do when they prepare to let aout a loud scream, some meddlesome bint from halfway across the swimming pool diagnoses a concussion and all of you pinheads jump on the bandwagon. That’s why we have the most expensive and least effective medical care, because idiots think every damn bump or bruise requires a trip to the emergency room. For Christ’s sake, it’s not like she had condiments or anything.
Thread win!
Funny thing is, if the Mom was a doper, she could write an OP like this:
“So my girl’s going down the slide and she bumps her head on the mulch. My sister scoops her up and brings her over to me so I can comfort her a little bit, when this nosy bitch comes thrashing through the water from 200 yards away and starts screaming at me to take her to the hospital! Thanks, nosy bitch, but I know my kid better than you do. She’s fine.”
I personally love “stupid parent” threads because I like the surprise of whether the OP is the overreactor or the underreactor. Turns out, she’s the overreactor in this one. See how much fun that was!
I would think the “Then the child went board straight and flat in her Mothers arms and stopped breathing” line was what piqued the OP’s ire.
Do you think that actually happened? And then without setting her down the mother blew in her mouth twice and she suddenly started crying? So she hit the ground, got a concussion to the point that she convulsed and quit breathing within seconds, but two breaths from her mom and she starts to cry? Nothing about that seems like an over reaction to you? Does anything in that story make sense other than people ignoring some hysterical person screaming medical advice to perfect strangers based on an across the pool diagnosis?
What it’s nothing short of is the threat of spanking. But I guess that’s child abuse these days.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but a head injury that severe, that causes someone to stop breathing does require SOME form of medical attention – maybe not at an ER, but she should definitely see a freaking doctor.
I’m not denying that. What I’m saying is that there never was a head injury severe enough to stop someone’s breathing that could be resolved by the mother blowing in the injured person’s mouth twice. I’m saying the injured person in this story never had a severe head injury. I’m saying that the person who
misread the entire situation. Remember, TruCeltwas moving as fast as she could through the water and shouting even before the child allegedly stopped breathing. Have none of you had children? None of you have ever seen that 5 seconds of apparent tetany that precedes a tantrum? The child was fine. The people who were within arm’s reach of the child were more informed than some hysterical woman, and without knowing the gender of the OP I state that if it’s not a woman, I’ll kiss your ass on the White House lawn.
I have never met a parent who cares more about money than their kids.
What I have met is the parent who has to decide if its more important to send kid to doc for hit on head or buy bread to make sandwiches for the family tomorrow.
Some people genuinely don’t have money to do both you know, and a $300 ride in an ambulance + emergency room fees means that the rents not going to get paid.
SO get off your high horse.
And the EMTs who were apparently pleading with the caretakers are more informed than either them or YOU.
Yeah, and the EMTs don’t have a vested interest in erring on the side of caution at all do they now? Especially in the litigious environment you have in the US
Still, if she DID have a head injury, and she was probably knocked out, I do hope her mother took her to a doctor. Even if it wasn’t as bad as the OP seems to think, I’d still get it checked out. She could have had a concussion, which isn’t anything to mess around with.
Without having read through the thread (only the first three posts), I’d like to address an earnest question to TruCelt or anyone else knowledgeable:
Nine years ago, I went to a water park with friends and their children. I was tending to the children in the toddler section of the park – a few built-in kiddie pools and some kind of odd slip-n-slide “hill” (maybe 2 feet high). I was standing near the slip-n-slide hill, in the smooth, wet area the kids were supposed to slide into.
Where I was standing was on slight incline, smooth as glass, and wet. The surface felt like hard rubber, like a hockey puck.
Anyway, I took a bad step or something, and I slipped backwards, going from standing to prone instantaneously. It was so quick, I didn’t get my hands under me or anything – nothing whatsoever broke my fall. The back of the head was the first thing that hit the ground, and presumably the back of my skull bore the brunt of the fall.
I remember something I can only describe as a “flash blackout” – I couldn’t see anything for maybe a second or two. I stayed on my back for a few seconds, then stood right up … somewhat woozy, but apparently OK to any onlookers. After a minute or so, I felt no worse for the wear except for a headache. I didn’t stop my activities or go sit down and rest or anything. The rest of my friends were hanging out in another area of the park – I had no one to hand the kids off to – so I stood off to the side on concrete and continued watching the kids play. The headache wore off in a few hours.
Now then – I didn’t feel anywhere near bad enough to seek medical treatment. And nine years later, I’m apparently OK. But at the time … was that the kind of thing you’re supposed to go get looked at? How you feel after the blow doesn’t matter – a blow to the head is a blow to the head is a blow to the head?
A fall from that height is certainly enough to fracture a skull. Even if there is no fracture, the brain gets bounced around and can be bruised against the skull. The rubber flooring might have been enough to cushion the fall and lessen the injury potential.
First aid guidelines do say that any loss of consciousness should be seen by a doctor.
I would guess you did suffer a concussion.
Just to reiterate/correct a few misconceptions that seem to be building here:
Unconscious and limp is far less scary than unconscious and board flat/stiff.
I was never hysterical. I am always preternaturally calm during an emergency. I only get hysterical when it’s over.
The water I was moving through was the kiddie pool, about up to my kness, but I was also carrying Celtling so couldn’t sprint. The point of this information is that I had to yell because I couldn’t get there in time to speak quietly.
I screamed for help when the child convulsed, or seized, or whatever the proper name is for whatever happened at that point. I screamed because the nearest lifeguard was halfway down an Olympic sized pool from us.
Whatever it was that happened, I agree that it would probably have ended when it did regardless of the Mother’s breathing into the mouth. In fact, I think I said somewhere that she was just as likely to inflate the child’s stomach as her lungs the way she did it. It was another example in the long string of idotic actions I witnessed that day.