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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Heartbreaking, may this dear child Rest In Peace.I hope his bullies are tormented by guilt. I don’t underwhelmed the mom didn’t take him to an ear or free clinic to get checked out. I understand fear or inability to pay, but I would jump in front of a moving train for my child.[/quote]

I agree.  If they showed up at an emergency room, they would not have been turned away (if you come to this country, you should at least have the basic understanding of how things work.  Also, why are we letting people into this country sho go directly to shelters?).[/quote]

If you show up in an emergency room, they have to treat you until you're stabilized.

And then they send you an enormous bill.

If you live in this country, you should at least have the basic understanding of how things work.[/quote]

So your options are a) take kid to hospital, he lives, and you have a huge bill or b) don’t take your kid, he dies, but yay!  No bills![/quote]

Every time your child tells you they don't feel well, you assume that this is a medical emergency and your child will certainly die without medical treatment?

It doesn't take any additional effort to be a kind person, PP. You might try it.[/quote]

You’re right. [b]When my kid complains of chest/throat pain for a month, I assume it’s nothing[/b]. [/quote]

My kids often get colds that linger where they complain of throat pain for weeks on end.  I have good insurance and paid leave so I usually take them to the doctor, who will run a strep test (and now a covid test), and then tell me it's a cold and they should gargle with salt water, drink lots of fluids and take ibuprofen as needed.  This is every parent's nightmare -- that the time you say "eh, it's just another thing like kid's get" that is the time it is something serious.  I assume this kid did not look like he was about to die, or someone at the school would have sent him to the health tech room or the ER.  My own sibling had a tumor that was missed for a long time because it was in a location where kids often get bumps and my parents didn't realize that my sibling kept mentioning the same bump until it was pretty large--and my parents are educated, with one of them working in the health field.  I have a kid that complains of chronic headaches -- I've mentioned it to the doctor, and they talk about stress, screen usage, allergies, etc., and then send me home.  But of course as a parent there's that paranoid voice in the back of my head thinking it's possibly something worse -- but that doesn't mean I rush to the doctor every time they complain.  Parenting is full of these mundane little decisions that can have really awful enormous consequences if you make the wrong call -- that's why it's so enormously stressful to be a parent.[/quote]

Well said![/quote]

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