Some parents amaze me

Nurses General Nursing

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Some parents absoulutely amaze me. Not really, just how stupid and petty and vindictive can they be. Case in point.

Parents of a 3 yo child. Bring that cute little child in for swallowing a quarter. Xray shows the quarter in the stomach. GI and the Endo lab come in. Off to endo lab. Sedated child, scoped and removed quarter. No big deal ehh. All is well. They put the quarter in a specimen jar and give it back to the parents. A souvenir I guess.

The parents in their alledged wisdom discuss with the child about swallowing foriegn objects. Wasnt foriegn though, it was an American Quarter.

The parents show the child the quarter, and let the child handle it. Yes it happened. The child immediately put it back in the mouth and promptly swallowed it.

Moral of the story

some people should not be parents.

I kind of wonder to myself when parents are congratulated on a pregnancy or birth. I myself would prefer to offer congrats later in the child's life, since ongoing parenting is the real challenge and achievement.

Once had a mother who wanted her 3 year old to have an IV so she wouldn't feel hungry anymore. No matter how I tried to tell mother that wouldn't fix the hungry thing, she just couldn't get it. Stormed out of the ER yelling and screaming.

Too bad you didn't have a list of local food pantries, churches, and other organizations that might have been able to help, or have access to a social worker referral.

Specializes in PeriOp, ICU, PICU, NICU.
Maybe when they get the 5000 dollar endo fee X 2 they will then decide that at some point to STOP being so irresponsible. Money makes people have some semblance of a reality check, since the child swallowing the quarter the FIRST time didn't seem to do the trick...

That's the problem. Chances are (highly) is that Medicaid will get the bill. No worries ;)

Specializes in ER.
- my daughter got to the point of carving and has permanent scars that will never ever go away because they let it get so bad before notifying anyone.

"They" let it go? No one but schoolteachers had any responsibility to supervise her, and check on her wellbeing. Poor kid.

Specializes in Geriatrics, Home Health.
:I also love the folks who bring the 7 yr old to an "R" rated movie...what could they possibly be thinking...*sigh*

A few years ago, I was in line to buy tickets to the 9:30 pm showing of Superbad. It's a teen sex comedy, rated R, and clearly not meant for kids. I noticed a woman in line with a stroller and a 3-year-old. I hoped they weren't going to see Superbad, but they were. The kids were loud, and Mom showed no interest in keeping them quiet. I left and found an usher, who found a manager. Ten minutes later, the manager came in and talked to the woman. She loaded up her stroller and left.

My local paper had an interview with a theatre manager who had to deal with a woman who refused to take her screaming child out of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. He finally siad "Fine. I'm giving a refund to everyone in this theatre, except you."

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