I'm pretty sure the girl's parents could do a better job. Either that, or having an alcoholic father and overworking mother is the best setup in the world.
I have terrible vision, but I needed glasses, and I kept taking off my glasses and rubbing my eyes (...that's bad). So, my dad put socks on my hands so I couldn't take off the glasses.
I'm sure those parents could devise a very similar solution to some of their problems, if they're not complete morons. I could understand if their kid clawed out her eyes, fell down the stairs, chewed on her hands and stood infront of a radiator all in the span of a day...but I doubt that's how it happened. All of those are serious injuries, and obviously they noticed them.
I can understand letting one of them happen, maybe the kid falls down the stairs (but that just looks like inept parenting to be...where's the [censored] gate on the stairs? - not to complain, I fell down my basement stairs when I was 18 months old, I actually didn't cry either...but I don't know why).
Well, that's okay...maybe she didn't feel it (like me)...well say you see her chewing on her arms to bloody stumps; if it would hurt you if you do it, it's fair to assume that it <i>should</i> be hurting her. It's common sense, "If it hurts me, it should hurt you too." You should immediately notice something wrong. It's incredibly hard for people to cause hemorrhaging - to themselves - without them noticing it.
Then, I'd like to know where they live that their house is so out of date that there is a giant radiator - in their childs room, no less.
And well, the eye is acceptable, as there's not much they can do about it...as that can happen pretty quick (...never rub your eyes). Although, if she's clawing at them, she should be crying.
So, it's understandable to have one or two of these happen and not realzing a problem...but if all four of these things (and probably more) happen then it's fairly bad parenting (or maybe only inept, if you don't want to be harsh).
As for the child, last time I heard about a child like this, they died when they were around 12. Pain is a very important detector of danger and a cause of fear...Maybe she should become a soldier if she lives that long. As it is now, the parents seem to be spoiling her, once they realized she has a genetic disorder. If my child, or anyone's I'm looking after disobeys a rule, you don't let them mouth back to you like that, you discipline them (I'm not necessarily talking physical discipline either..time outs or whatever fits your style - although grounding and timeouts never worked on me...heh).
I feel fairly sorry for the child - in that she's going to have a dangerous, hard (especially if she can't sense heat or pressure like other nerves) life. Made harder by the initially inept acts of her parents. I can pretty much guarantee they weren't paying enough attention to their kid at first...if your kids not crying (at least a little) when it's a newborn there's probably something wrong.
I also could have sworn there were tests to make sure your nerves and spine functioned properly, maybe when you're around 2 or something.
Gah... <i>read</i>, people, <i>read the article</i>. The parents came up with the idea of putting goggles on their child so she would stop scratching her eyes. There was no mention of where humidifier that the kid stood in front of was, so there's no point in claiming it was in the kid's room. Why on earth are you going after these parents when <i>you would probably do just a bad a job or worse yourself</i>! Honestly.
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Okay, my corrections...it's even worse: Why the hell would you have a hot steam humidifier (or a humidifier at all) if you have a three year old in the house?
That's worse than a radiator...a radiator is pretty much required in a house, a humidifier is not.
Who are you to say that a humidifier isn't required? You know nothing about this situation. Maybe one of the parents is asthmatic, or maybe they wanted to make sure that their child had warm moist air to breathe in so they could take care of her. There are countless reasons to have a humidifier, and it is simply impossible to remove everything that could possibly harm your child from your house. Besides, who expects a three year old to go sneaking out of bed to <i>stand in front of a humidifier</i>? It's a miracle that this child isn't dead, blind, deaf or crippled already, I can't imagine the stress these parents are under every day to keep this child safe.
Isn't there some sort of way to lock mitts on to her hands so that she doesn't cause damage like that?
Back in elementary school, my teacher's wife had a baby which was born with fingernails. As a gift, one person gave them baby mitts specially designed for the danger of scratching.
It doesn't state when she started scratching, since I guess by the age of three, she could of easily bitten off the mitts, (or if they were impenetrable, she would of lost her teeth). Still, they could of helped a lot.
What will be especially scary is if the parents really need to teach their child discipline, (in the meantime, they're promoting her attituide, yikes). Spanks and slaps on the wrist won't mean anything. If they confined her to her room, she could happily punch the walls until she had no fists left. I don't think there's anything they could do short of tying her up, which would just be child abuse.
Hopefully. they can manage to keep her from going ape **** with kind words and reasoning, even though she'll probably see no negative side effects if she refuses to abide by them.
Uhhh....this is very bad...thank god this deisease is rare....
What would you do if your kid chewed away his fingers without realizing any pain? I know I would go to see the doctor immediately.
But in the case of this child....I think it's too late now....because the damage has ben done.
Children learn through their mistakes. Pain is one thing that warns you that you are doing something wrong. Without it, you wo't know if your hands have been chopped off, you limbs crushed by 3 tonnes of steel, or whatever that is fatal.
I as an uncle who has to babysit his nephew for the past 4 years know how hard it is to look after a child 24/7, it simply isn't easy. I remember back when he fell on the ground from his crib and landed head first.....thankfully, there was no major injury. Now, if he had the same disease as this girl would I be a bad uncle? You decide.
Unfortunately, 'disease' is one of those things nature does with this weird 'balance' in the world....I wonder how things got so balanced in the first place though....
I doubt she'd have any trouble knowing when to go to the lil girl's room... it's specifically the nerves responsible for pain that are busted according to that =3
ocular jelly isn't particularly good at withstanding sharp things like scratching nails but outside of that it's pretty resilient stuff. You can actually stand on an eyeball with your full weight without breaking the membrane =o
It's like she's stuck with a life-long case of leprosy minus the ulcers, gangrene and deformation =s
I can't even imagine the horror of such a disease. I can clearly see myself stepping on a nail or some such thing, and not realising it until I was in the shower.
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I have terrible vision, but I needed glasses, and I kept taking off my glasses and rubbing my eyes (...that's bad). So, my dad put socks on my hands so I couldn't take off the glasses.
I'm sure those parents could devise a very similar solution to some of their problems, if they're not complete morons. I could understand if their kid clawed out her eyes, fell down the stairs, chewed on her hands and stood infront of a radiator all in the span of a day...but I doubt that's how it happened. All of those are serious injuries, and obviously they noticed them.
I can understand letting one of them happen, maybe the kid falls down the stairs (but that just looks like inept parenting to be...where's the [censored] gate on the stairs? - not to complain, I fell down my basement stairs when I was 18 months old, I actually didn't cry either...but I don't know why).
Well, that's okay...maybe she didn't feel it (like me)...well say you see her chewing on her arms to bloody stumps; if it would hurt you if you do it, it's fair to assume that it <i>should</i> be hurting her. It's common sense, "If it hurts me, it should hurt you too." You should immediately notice something wrong. It's incredibly hard for people to cause hemorrhaging - to themselves - without them noticing it.
Then, I'd like to know where they live that their house is so out of date that there is a giant radiator - in their childs room, no less.
And well, the eye is acceptable, as there's not much they can do about it...as that can happen pretty quick (...never rub your eyes). Although, if she's clawing at them, she should be crying.
So, it's understandable to have one or two of these happen and not realzing a problem...but if all four of these things (and probably more) happen then it's fairly bad parenting (or maybe only inept, if you don't want to be harsh).
As for the child, last time I heard about a child like this, they died when they were around 12. Pain is a very important detector of danger and a cause of fear...Maybe she should become a soldier if she lives that long. As it is now, the parents seem to be spoiling her, once they realized she has a genetic disorder. If my child, or anyone's I'm looking after disobeys a rule, you don't let them mouth back to you like that, you discipline them (I'm not necessarily talking physical discipline either..time outs or whatever fits your style - although grounding and timeouts never worked on me...heh).
I feel fairly sorry for the child - in that she's going to have a dangerous, hard (especially if she can't sense heat or pressure like other nerves) life. Made harder by the initially inept acts of her parents. I can pretty much guarantee they weren't paying enough attention to their kid at first...if your kids not crying (at least a little) when it's a newborn there's probably something wrong.
I also could have sworn there were tests to make sure your nerves and spine functioned properly, maybe when you're around 2 or something.
Okay, my corrections...it's even worse: Why the hell would you have a hot steam humidifier (or a humidifier at all) if you have a three year old in the house?
That's worse than a radiator...a radiator is pretty much required in a house, a humidifier is not.
Back in elementary school, my teacher's wife had a baby which was born with fingernails. As a gift, one person gave them baby mitts specially designed for the danger of scratching.
It doesn't state when she started scratching, since I guess by the age of three, she could of easily bitten off the mitts, (or if they were impenetrable, she would of lost her teeth). Still, they could of helped a lot.
What will be especially scary is if the parents really need to teach their child discipline, (in the meantime, they're promoting her attituide, yikes). Spanks and slaps on the wrist won't mean anything. If they confined her to her room, she could happily punch the walls until she had no fists left. I don't think there's anything they could do short of tying her up, which would just be child abuse.
Hopefully. they can manage to keep her from going ape **** with kind words and reasoning, even though she'll probably see no negative side effects if she refuses to abide by them.
What would you do if your kid chewed away his fingers without realizing any pain? I know I would go to see the doctor immediately.
But in the case of this child....I think it's too late now....because the damage has ben done.
Children learn through their mistakes. Pain is one thing that warns you that you are doing something wrong. Without it, you wo't know if your hands have been chopped off, you limbs crushed by 3 tonnes of steel, or whatever that is fatal.
I as an uncle who has to babysit his nephew for the past 4 years know how hard it is to look after a child 24/7, it simply isn't easy. I remember back when he fell on the ground from his crib and landed head first.....thankfully, there was no major injury. Now, if he had the same disease as this girl would I be a bad uncle? You decide.
Unfortunately, 'disease' is one of those things nature does with this weird 'balance' in the world....I wonder how things got so balanced in the first place though....
ocular jelly isn't particularly good at withstanding sharp things like scratching nails but outside of that it's pretty resilient stuff. You can actually stand on an eyeball with your full weight without breaking the membrane =o
It's like she's stuck with a life-long case of leprosy minus the ulcers, gangrene and deformation =s
Are they sure that the kid isent a bit retarded or something? I mean it is the nervcells in the brain that is damaged.
I dub thee 'inappropriate'.