It's That Crazy Mom Again

[coquillagement]

I am learning that I am not an ideal travel hockey mom, mostly because I ask too many questions. For example, I ask for explanations of crazy things that happen during games, such as some players being tossed and others not being tossed. Or the impact this will have on future games. Or exactly what the midseason rule changes on fighting are.

Comments

[kit_the_brave]

Woah, that is seriously messed up. I wonder if they thought they couldn't call paramedics without the kid's parents' permission? What did the permission slip look like to be on the team?

Ours, I have to admit, look like closing on a house - three separate places to sign, two boxes to initial, and we make people give their child's doctor's name and contact info, their insurance info, permission to transport their kids if necessary, they have to sign to say that they will provide us with any necessary medication to hold for their kids in the original prescription bottles...

When we had a kid with an Epipen who was allergic to peanuts I made sure that every adult in the program understood that the procedure is CALL EMS FIRST NO MATTER WHAT. If they get called out and it turns out to be nothing, that's fine with me.

And we don't even have body-checking in our programs.

[coquillagement]

And we don't even have body-checking in our programs.
But at the speed with which you are inventing programs, I'm sure it's only a matter of time. :D

Ed filled out all the contracts and contacts, so I'm not sure, but this seemed all sorts of crazy wrong to me. Maybe I'll have to put a rider on Luke's paperwork.

[kit_the_brave]

I just asked HtB to cast his mind back to his EMT coursework, and he said if they didn't have the parents' permission the EMTs probably couldn't have done much. He says the proper course of action would be to call the parents and say, "Here's what happened; we're going to call the ambulance."

I don't want body checking in my programs! My life is complicated enough already. Also I promised the city attorney that there would not be a repeat of the Swordfighting Insurance Rider Purchase of '10. :D

[leapin_jot]

I agree! This was really irresponsible of the coaches and the parents. Kids that age always take the attitude that no damage is serious, but adults should be smarter than that.

I talked to a lady recently who told me that when her boys were teens, she once walked into the garage and found her husband cutting off her son's cast so that the kid could keep playing for the team. The dad said the kid was already cutting the cast off and he figured it was better if he did it than let the kid. Of course, the arm never healed right, and compounded with a later injury, fifteen to twenty years later he has difficulty using that arm.

One of my library aides got hurt in football practice a month or two ago. I made sure to tell him that story, and then every week or two I made some reference to it. I keep reminding him that football isn't even his favorite sport, and he needs to heal up for soccer.

Ugh, course I'm not very understanding because I'm not in to sports at all.

[coquillagement]

The good news is I spoke to lots of people in charge today, including the father of the boy, who never, never misses a game but missed last night's - and we're all in agreement that a protocol needs to be drawn up, so that's good. The boy in question is well, altho I was unhappy to hear that the family taking him home last night decided it was Ok to stop for dinner out. Sometimes people just don't understand the risk. I'd like to find a program to educate the kids about it.

That dad-with-the-cast story is insane!

[leapin_jot]

"That dad-with-the-cast story is insane!"

And yet, as soon as she told me about it, I could totally see something like that happening.

[leapin_jot]

And I'm really glad that they're updating the protocol. Some future parent is going to be really thankful for your input and insistence on this matter.

[nundu_art]

My Dauther #2 got knocked unconcious by a hockey player (she was a figure skater that didn't hear the whistle ending private practice). She woke up in the ambulance on the way to the ER, because the rink called the EMTs immediately. (this was 20 years ago) She was kept for several hours and Xrays and finally allowed to go home, armed with instructions on observing for worsening symptoms. The pupils were the scary thing. She never recalled the memory of that day or the three days preceeding, which included a birthday party for a good friend. Head injuries are nothing to blow off!

[coquillagement]

Thank goodness she was OK and was taken care of appropriately. Spoke to lots of in charge people today, and I think definitive protocol will be drawn up and implemented. Yay.