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Post by fullmahina on Aug 25, 2018 14:19:37 GMT
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Post by gramma15 on Aug 25, 2018 18:54:44 GMT
Thank you for posting. I've seen this and it's certainly a worthy cause. Shaken babies is a huge problem. I live in a small town and we've had probably many more cases than I've even heard of. I was a nurse in the local hospital ...not on pediatrics or ER but still heard of and met a set of twins that both had been shaken and suffered all the bad effects of it except for death.One of the nurses I worked with had her baby shaken by the sitter.
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Post by fullmahina on Aug 26, 2018 1:28:52 GMT
Thank you for posting. I've seen this and it's certainly a worthy cause. Shaken babies is a huge problem. I live in a small town and we've had probably many more cases than I've even heard of. I was a nurse in the local hospital ...not on pediatrics or ER but still heard of and met a set of twins that both had been shaken and suffered all the bad effects of it except for death.One of the nurses I worked with had her baby shaken by the sitter. Old ICU RN here and a CCU I once worked in was right next to the pediatric ICU. Once in a while we floated over there (during times of extreme shortage---I was NOT a pediatric ICU nurse by any stretch of the imagination!!) and I saw babies that were victims of shaken baby syndrome. It was a big NY county hospital and we got the patients that the "good" hospitals didn't want. Those babies often had only the nurses and our volunteers to hold and comfort them. So very sad. |
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Post by gramma15 on Aug 26, 2018 1:52:46 GMT
Yes you must have seen a LOT! I worked in Buffalo at the county hospital there and there were interesting cases but probably not anywhere near what you've seen. I wasn't an ICU nurse but I did float to ICU a few times.I've lived out west for almost 30 years now. Never saw or heard of shaken babies before I moved here.I'm sure there are many now that they've indentified it and have mri's and ct scans to detect the damage. For the last few years I worked in Buffalo we didn't have pediatrics at all anymore. It was closed. in the old building there were actually two floors of pediatrics and LOTS of patients and sometimes police had to be sent to the child's home to make a parent come and pick up a child. When there still was a small pediatric dept at the hospital where I worked I was floated there one night as the nurse that was to work there called in sick.There weren't many patients and almost all of them were there to have lead chealation.I, of course didn't know a thing about pediatrics but adm didn't care. Luckily all went well but I fell in love with all those children esp one little girl. I can't remember her story but when I went to work the next night I took some of my dd's outgrown toys to her.
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Post by fullmahina on Aug 26, 2018 14:00:36 GMT
gramma15, no matter where any nurse has worked, we all have interesting stories to tell! And isn't retirement wonderful?
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Post by gramma15 on Aug 26, 2018 16:18:05 GMT
Yes it sure is!!!  |
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Post by choney2 on Aug 26, 2018 19:52:46 GMT
will check this out....sounds like a great way to use up smaller quantities of yarn and for a darned good cause.
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