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My moms a bitch. I cut the end of my finger off with the door, blood everywhere, fingertip gone, just hanging on by skin. She just wants to put peroxide and a bandaid on it and send me back out. She's washing it off in the sink I'm starting to feel woozy and fall over, my dads yelling at her to take me to the dr. She still thinks Im fine.
We finally went. Bitch.

Treehorn wrote:Tell me something I don't know.

Look, getting treatment sooner is always preferable to later, but it wouldn't have made much difference to her treatment/ outcome whether the accident happened right there in the waiting room of the ED, or if she showed up an hour later.

She endangered lives over a non-life threatening situation. I maintain that she got off light in more ways than one.

See the problem with that is, she may not have known if it was life threatening or not. If your a parent and your child is hurt you want to get your child medical attention ASAP especially if you dont know whether the injury is life threatening or not. I would rather find out my child was just fine and that I rushed for nothing then to be at her funeral because I didn't act fast enough figuring "its no big deal".

Hmm I'd like to think I'd probably keep driving with my hazard lights on and wail my horn at people in my way... and deal with the cop later, but realisticly I'd pull over and not even wait for the cop to take 5 mins in his car before coming to my window, I'd get out of the car, grab my baby and take him to the police car and ask him to take us faster to the hospital. She probably lived in an area where the EMS is notoriously late for everything so she took it upon herself. It's hard to imagine what you'd be thinking in a moment like that, but my motherly instincts would tell me to get medical attention asap.

Gidan wrote:

Treehorn wrote:Tell me something I don't know.

Look, getting treatment sooner is always preferable to later, but it wouldn't have made much difference to her treatment/ outcome whether the accident happened right there in the waiting room of the ED, or if she showed up an hour later.

She endangered lives over a non-life threatening situation. I maintain that she got off light in more ways than one.

See the problem with that is, she may not have known if it was life threatening or not. If your a parent and your child is hurt you want to get your child medical attention ASAP especially if you dont know whether the injury is life threatening or not. I would rather find out my child was just fine and that I rushed for nothing then to be at her funeral because I didn't act fast enough figuring "its no big deal".

Exactly. Not to many parents out there have a medical degree hanging on the den wall. If I were a parent I'd do the same. Fuck the cops. They can write me up once I am there.

However, on a side note I WOULD use my cell phone and call 911 while en route. Think back a moment to that chase we all saw on the news... 10 cops cars chasing this motorist who they *thought* was running from them... but, after she called 911 and told them what was going on (her brakes gave out) - the cops changed course from chasing her to helping her.

Gidan wrote:See the problem with that is, she may not have known if it was life threatening or not. If your a parent and your child is hurt you want to get your child medical attention ASAP especially if you dont know whether the injury is life threatening or not. I would rather find out my child was just fine and that I rushed for nothing then to be at her funeral because I didn't act fast enough figuring "its no big deal".

Quite frankly, if you're a parent, you should be at least conversant in First Aid. You don't need a doctorate degree, but most injuries that are actually life-threatening are immediately recognizable with a modicum of training.

Unfortunately, that's asking too much of most people these days. They really can't be bothered.

And why should they? They're just going to come to the ED anyway, because that is the closest thing they have to a primary care provider.


Most parents are woefully ignorant. They either overreact horribly (which is not so bad, because at least if you're seeing them the one time something is wrong, you can do something about it, except they are totally freaked out and impossible to deal with), or they are disgustingly negligent (which is always worse for the kids, and these parents tend to be irredeemable slimebags).

Treehorn wrote:Unfortunately, that's asking too much of most people these days. They really can't be bothered.

And why should they? They're just going to come to the ED anyway, because that is the closest thing they have to a primary care provider.


Most parents are woefully ignorant. They either overreact horribly (which is not so bad, because at least if you're seeing them the one time something is wrong, you can do something about it, except they are totally freaked out and impossible to deal with), or they are disgustingly negligent (which is always worse for the kids, and these parents tend to be irredeemable slimebags).

Oh, I'm under no delusions as to the general competence of humanity. As a judge, I wouldn't accept their ignorance as an excuse for reckless behavior though. They really should know better.

Aryylas's brother had his back burned badly when his shirt caught fire. First second and third degree burns, he is almost 18 and I can say that it was hard as hell not to tell his aunt to STEP ON THE GAS AND SPEED UP A BIT, as she drove him to the ER with me in the back seat of her SUV holding a damp towel over his back which was bleeding, pussing, and smelled to high hell. I can't imagine being calm in that kind of situation with an infant, let alone my own infant.

First off, Treehorn is assuming she endangered anyone besides herself and the baby. Nowhere did it say she was driving erratically or driving people off the sidewalk. It just said she was speeding.

Secondly, you can bet your ass I wouldn't stop if I deemed that my child had to be at the hospital instantly. I would hope I would be sensible enough to only react in such a manner in only the most dire situations, however. And I definitely would call or have someone call for me.

Until you're a parent you can't understand how a scream of pain and terror from your child can almost stop your heart. My daughter at one point managed to spray my hub's gel shaving lotion into her eye socket. It immediately foamed up and surrounded her eyeball. You wanna talk about screaming? OMG I thought she was dying. Flushing her eye with cups of water followed by a nap (keeping the eye closed) worked wonders.

Martrae wrote:My daughter at one point managed to spray my hub's gel shaving lotion into her eye socket. It immediately foamed up and surrounded her eyeball.

Solution: Don't raise stupid kids.

































Before you freak it out that was a joke. I'm sure your daughter is a genius who stuffed shaving cream in her face.

Yea, till you hear the death rattle of your offspring, you'll never understand.