Girl, sits through three-hours of class after first-aiders don't spot her arm was broken
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[QUOTE=Madman_Andre;25377843]Wow, just... wow.
Hod does someone trained in First Aid not know [I]what a broken fucking arm is?[/I][/QUOTE]
First aiders at schools are usually pretty stupid.
Breaking your arm doesn't hurt that bad, I broke my arm and I waited 6 hours to learn that I needed surgery for it. Never the less, pain free.
[QUOTE=Axiom :D;25465165]Breaking your arm doesn't hurt that bad, I broke my arm and I waited 6 hours to learn that I needed surgery for it. Never the less, pain free.[/QUOTE]
Depends how bad the break is.
My leg was broken in a fight once, and none of the teachers believed me even though I was hopping around on one leg all day. They wouldn't let me go to the nurses office, so I had to hop around all day with a cracked growth plate in my left leg. I tried to sue the school and the kid who did it but I lost.
I sat through two weeks of my life after the emergency room, after taking several x-rays, told me my collar bone wasn't broken, but instead sprained. I went to have a second opinion after two weeks and i actually got to see the x-ray, and it looked pretty much like this (This isn't my exact x-ray, but it looks almost identical).
[img]http://www.hanskellner.com/photos/2006/04/chad_collarbone/chad_collarbone_001.jpg[/img]
Now it's all fucked up because it didn't heal right.
The elementary school I went to had a phone in the office you could call your parents whenever you wanted to during recess or lunch, etc.
Something like this happened to me when I broke my wrist for the first time, I was told to sit down and shut up basically. I took it onto my own back to get my mum in, who instantly saw it was a break and took me to hospital. Britland here too.
first aid in schools pretty much suck.
"got a bruise? put some ice on it. broke an arm? put some ice on it. got shot? put some ice on it."
My little brother tripped and fell onto a plant potter and smashed it. It actually fractured his arm, but neither him nor my parents knew it was broken for at least a week until he moved it in a weird way and got some intense pain.
Small fractures can be missed easily, I think this is just sensationalizing, especially the thread title. It doesn't help that kids often do fake injuries and sickness, makes it very hard to tell when they are not faking, especially when the symptoms are hard to spot.
[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]
Not in California, where 3 days out of 5 our school nurse is our office manager with a box of bandages. Oh and our school doesn't have ice, we have paper towels soaked in water, then frozen.
I hope they sue the school for a shitload of money.
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