Girl, sits through three-hours of class after first-aiders don't spot her arm was broken
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Why didnt she speak up and say her arm hurt like a bitch?
Breaks my heart to see news like this. I hope those first-aiders are executed by a crack squad of mercenaries.
[QUOTE=InsanePyro;25383221]Why didnt she speak up and say her arm hurt like a bitch?[/QUOTE]
When were you last at a primary school? They're comparable to concentration camps now.
[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;25384347][b]Breaks my heart[/b] to see news like this. I hope those first-aiders are executed by a crack squad of mercenaries.[/QUOTE]
No it breaks ur arm
Goddamn. That had to have fucking hurt :frown:
Why didn't the kid say anything?
I've had some painful injuries, including slipping on a wet floor and jetting my knee right into a concrete stair, but have never broken anything ever
I cringed reading this.
She DID say something
[quote]Alison Raggatt was astonished to find her daughter Sophie, 7, had been left in agony with a broken arm in school
'She was crying for me, but the school never telephoned me', said Mrs Raggatt from Tewkesbury.[/quote]
[quote]Mark Rickard, schools programme manager at Gloucestershire County Council, said: 'There are dozens of minor bumps, cuts and bruises in schools every day. Any school that suspects a serious injury would be expected to call the child's parent or carer.'[/quote]
[QUOTE=Pretiacruento;25381971]I'm sure you weren't a 7 year old girl when that happened... right?[/QUOTE]
Does it matter? It was still broken.
I had to make a shitty face swap of the woman and the child.
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Yeesh they need to train the First Aiders better to diagnose fractures and broken bones.
HNNNG this makes my once-broken arm twitch in remembered pain.
I once was playing football with my two brothers(one throwing, me catching, the other tackling me), when I broke my elbow getting tackled. My older brother, the one who threw the ball, walked over to where I was laying crying my eyes out(I was a kid) and grabbed my wrist and jiggled my arm saying "see, it's not hurt". No, he did not later go on to a career in medicine.
Girl needed to speak up.
[QUOTE=Skelmech;25385379]Goddamn. That had to have fucking hurt :frown:[/QUOTE]
Your avatar fits.
One time in 7th grade a kid broke his finger and the teacher wouldn't let him go to the office. He wasn't faking it, he even raised his hand to show her (and the whole class) and it was swollen to twice it's normal size. Fucking bitch.
[QUOTE=binkow;25388239]I had to make a shitty face swap of the woman and the child.
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The child looks like a man now.
This happened to me, fucking sucked.
[QUOTE=DeveloperConsol;25378147]Aren't first-aiders supposed to easily spot the wound?[/QUOTE]
Implying a fracture means that the bone is exposed through the flesh.
This isn't that bad, sure it sucks but it could have been a hair line fracture which is easily missed without an x ray machine.
A couple of years ago I fell skateborading and couldn't move my arm. Went to A&E and was told that it was just bruised (After being x-ray'd). As I was getting back in the car to go home a doctor ran out of the hospital to stop us. He had rechecked the x-ray and discovered a fracture at the joint.
I don't think they ever get these things right first time.
To be honest have a bloody cry about it, I hate to relate it to a personal experience but when I broke my arm it was a 6 hour wait in the emergency ward for me
In my secondary school, my best friend at the time bumped shins with another girl during PE. He was crying, screaming in pain, and couldn't put any pressure on his right leg. He got taken to the First Aid room only to be told it's just bruised. They didn't phone his parents, and was picked up when school finished.
Phoned me up the next day and told me his leg was broken.
When I was in kindergarten I was standing over a railing in the hall from the stairs. A couple of 6th graders were throwing a football around and a guy missed to catch it and I got hit in the eye and fell the full flight to the ground. I now have to wear glasses, and the school didn't call my mom or anything. Apparently I could have gotten it helped had they told my mom :(
If you're saying she should have spoke up, you haven no idea what primary schools in the UK are like. I've seen this sort of thing happen far too many times. No matter how much any child displays any signs of pain and distress, nine times out of ten they'll be told to shut up or to stop being silly.
Fractures can be very easy to miss or mistake for something else. I fractured my first metatarsal (Big bone in foot) playing rugby, and it hurt like hell whenever you put pressure on it. But there was no swelling and only slight bruising, and the doctor thought it was a crushed tendon until I had it x-rayed. It's also hard to tell if some kids are in real pain, at primary school I remember people (especially girls) burst into tears at the slightest pain.
Not too bad, my little brother walked around for days with a broken wrist because my mother insisted that it was "[i]nothing"[/i]. Then we finally went to the doctor after we all decided (including her) that her diagnosis was faulty. My little bro is a tough kid. And yes this was during school.
[QUOTE=BANNED USER;25382971]If you so much as scrape a knee in America you get that shit sterilized immediately and bandaged up, then your parents get a call to let them know.[/QUOTE]
My brother's story proves that you are wrong.
A similar thing happened to my friend in 3rd grade.
He fell off the playset, which was around 30 ft tall.
He went into shock and walked into class because he though it was a dream, luckily a teacher caught it and called an ambluance.
Fuck, you guys are hardcore. My worst event was when I cut my knee down to the fat on a traffic-filled dirty bridge in Costa Rica. As it turns out, colds don't take initiative when given a wound to eat the shit out of.
This reminded me of my childhood years.
I remember when I had to sit through an hour of school with a broken arm after about 5 of my (mostly fat) classmates fell on me after someone pushed them. I told the teacher that my arm was broken but she thought I was kidding. I didn't cry or scream when I broke it neither - even the doctors didn't think it was broken until they did the x-rays which showed that my left arm and a finger were broken.
This happened when I was in the 2nd grade.
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