Upset

[Crystal]

Thank you Chrystal, for getting it! I was a peds nurse some time ago and if there had been a similar "accident" on my watch I don't think providers like Jen would dismiss that so easily. He had his shoes on when dropped and when picked up, thus mom didn't know until she got him home. Mom called me in tears and by the way, she is not my daughter. He is her and my son's first child. He was screaming and the only way it could have happened is from the pavement. A fifteen month old doesn't scream for no reason. His feet were blistered and I have a difficult time with the fact that the provider did not know. He is 15 months old and he has only been walking for about a month. The bottoms of a baby’s feet are not like yours and mine. They don't have to be walking on pavement for long for them to burn. He is a blond haired, blue eyed baby and precautions could have been made. The provider was neglectful and she did not make out any kind of report. I'm not out to see her lose her license but I do think another daycare might do a better job of protecting my grandson. There have been a couple of other incidents that caused mom and dad to question things with the daycare.

You're welcome. Just because I am a provider doesn't mean that I don't understand things from a parent's/grandparents perspective and that I will automatically side with the provider. I tend to side with the CHILD and the child's rights, and in this case, he clearly was not adequately protected and was injured.
I hope your grandson's feet heal quickly and that there are no permanent issues.

[MarinaVanessa]

Sorry Ladies and Chicken (and Michael!)....the WHOLE POST sounds suspicious to me. I believe it's just one of those posts to get every one going.

On the other hand, its good to read every one's reply in case such a situation does ever occur.

However like all unregistered posts here, I take this one with a grain of salt.

I don't usually respond to threads or posts created by "unregistered guests" but I do want to say that I kind of have to agree here. It seems a lot like a Troll. I did also notice that the "grandma" didn't respond directly to this comment insinuating that it was a false incident.

If, on the other hand, it were true and the child did get burns she did said they were "borderline 3rd degree burns". I would question how a child could have 1st or 2nd degree burns and still be able to keep his shoes on for the rest of the day without feeling pain until the parent took the shoes off to discover the blistering. I'm just saying that this seems suspicious because third degree burns themselves are not painful because the nerves have burned which decreases the sensation but they are all also surrounded by 1st and 2nd degree burns. Meaning, if the child had actual 3rd degree burns then I would understand why the child had little pain or discomfort in the area of the 3rd degree burns but then agian 3rd degree burns are always surrounded by 1st and 2nd degree burns which are painful, especially 2nd degree burns (borderline 3rd degree burns) which are extremely painful.

[tmcp2001]

I realize this post is a little old but I saw this news article this morning and had to share. This little guy suffered 2nd degree burns on his feet in a matter of seconds:

http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=860552&catid=391

Perhaps that will lend some perspective to all of us!