In article ,
(Mary Gordon) wrote:

Yeah, I'd complain, and in writing to .

I'm kind of dumbfounded at the way the ER treated you. My middle kid
has no medical conditions that make high risk like your child. He's a
pretty healthy kid. When he was in Grade 1 he got wonked twice on the
head in the school yard and got a concussion - and I should mention,
he never lost consciousness, but he did throw up and was dizzy, drowsy
and very pale (he looked really awful). We took him to Sick Kids
hospital here in Toronto, where there usually is really long wait in
the ER (if what's wrong is not immediately life threatening, you can
be there for a loooooong time, even with broken bones). Because it was
a head injury and poor Con was looking so green-grey, they took him in
immediately - we jumped the queue, they examined him immediately and
sent us off for a scan right away.

In the case of your child, who has a known medical problem that makes
this kind of injury particularly dangerous AND a specialist called
ahead, whoever did the triage when you came in should be fired. Just
plain inexcusable.

Mary G.



you might also want to refer to this condition as 'hemophilia' next time
-- VW is a mild form of this illness and people might respond more
quickly to something they recognize