Reply to What to do when you get call from camp “I want to come home”

Forum Index » General Parenting Discussion

Reply to "What to do when you get call from camp “I want to come home”"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some of the things that happened to my DD at expensive sleep away camps ...
If my DD, a strong and level headed kid, called me in hysterics I would pick her up.

Actually it happened 3 times. (different DDs) In one instance DD developed Fifth Disease, which is characterized by fluctuations in temperature and hives that appear and disappear. She developed a temp of 102 the first day but the camp kept saying it would go away and there was no nurse. On the morning of the 3rd day she called while I was at doctors appointment in hysterics. DH left right away a 5 hour drive to pick her up. Very very sick for the next 10 days. The camp was completely nonchalant about it and in their judgment she should have stayed.

In another incident camp counselors did not manage heat protection correctly and she suffered heat stroke. When I got there she was pale and listless lying in the ground. Counselor very busy elsewhere at the time. Yes counselor was fired.

In a third incident DD suffered a deep gash on the foot. It happened the night before the last day. The counselors bound it up and told her it was fine and anyway she was going home. When we took the bandage off it revealed a deep long gash in need of many stitches. However a deep gash that sat for over 24 hours cannot be stitched.

These were expensive camps with high ratings. Things happen. I trust my DDs when they say something is wrong.

They are in college now managing just fine. They would call if it was an emergency but it’s important to support their judgement at times. [/quote]

This is horrible! I will never send my kid to an overnight camp![/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics