Comments on: I Would’ve Scored A Lot More Candy

By: ERRN

ERRN — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 07:22:44 +0000

I love it when the mom tells me that the 2 year old told her “Mommy take me to the hospital.”
My theory is that the kid wanted some cheetos, they know we always have them in the vending machine in the waiting room.

By: Rogue Medic

Rogue Medic — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:33:35 +0000

CB,

There is a big difference between a head ache with vomiting and “they told me they wanted to go.”

The point you are missing is that the wrong person is making the decision. The parent should be the one making the decision to go or to stay home.

By: CB

CB — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 02:07:15 +0000

I wish my friend had gone to the ER last weekend when she started getting a headache and vomiting, and I wish the adults who were with her had MADE her go to the hospital instead of bending to a 16-year-old’s begging of “I don’t want to go to the hospital, just rub my head and make it stop hurting.”

Maybe the hospital would have been able to treat her subdural hematoma and she’d still be alive today.

I’d rather a parent brought a child “who said they wanted to go” and it turned out to be nothing, rather than a parent didn’t bring a child “who didn’t want to go” and it turned out to be fatal.

By: CR

CR — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:32:14 +0000

If my fever hit 102 or higher my mom tossed me in a tub of ice water. I never had to go to the ER as a kid though, even when I was knocked unconscious and knocked out a (baby) tooth. Mom just shoved the tooth back in. Oddly enough, the tooth stayed in another year until my permanent tooth came in. I think the gum grew around it to hold it in.

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 12:50:35 +0000

I’m pretty sure I had to have a body part in a baggie to end up in an ER.

By: A girl running

A girl running — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:03:51 +0000

Your hospitals must be more exciting over there, my 6 year old would cry if she thought she had to go to hospital

By: Erica

Erica — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:47:51 +0000

Wow. My folks only ever asked me two things: 1) Is there bone showing? and 2) Are you going to die?

Needless to say, I only went to the ER once as a child, and had no say in the matter either way.

By: lalitha

lalitha — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:47:46 +0000

20 is super high. Twice the normal. Well,human body is a complex machine.

By: tori

tori — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:41:53 +0000

Kate-my kids and I get the McDonalds happy meal toys specifically to give them to the hospital. When my son was there years ago for his asthma, it was wonderful to have something to make the trip at least somewhat good for him. Since then, my kids save their toy (unopened in the plastic wrap) and when we collect enough, we go drop them off.

I would never think to ask my kids if they needed to go to the ER though. If they said yes, they probably don’t need to go and if they were sick enough I think they would say no knowing yucky things would happen.

By: Sines

Sines — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:09:24 +0000

never heard that before.