I should have read more about this before I spoke about it. The stiffness definitely should have been seen as a sign that something was seriously wrong. The source I read that reported on the trial downplayed the seriousness of the stiffness. Somehow they thought it wasn’t a big deal :-( So horrible and tragic for…

Yeah when I saw that other stuff (being too stiff to put in a car seat) I thought the same. I hadn’t realized that at first. Also stiffness is a classic sign of meningitis... So sad that they didn’t think this was a big deal. I think they really thought it was just a minor thing. :-( Meningitis = always a big deal!

Flu can kill kids. Totally. But is it really weird or negligent to not call a doctor if your kid doesn’t even have a fever? When I read this article I just assumed the kid must have had a fever, but according to the article, he only had a low grade fever for a day. Like, my mom definitely didn’t call the doctor when I…

I’m not a parent so I could be just missing something. But what I read was that he had mild flu like symptoms (his low fever only lasted for a day or two) that abated and then came back (not the fever though). Again, not a parent, but it just doesn’t seem that strange to me to not call a doctor. I feel like most…

“Aside from his first day of illness, Ezekiel’s fever never returned, and his temperature never measured above 37.8 degrees, according to the report.”

I dunno. I had flus that lasted 2 weeks as a kid. My parents didn’t go to a doctor. I think probably a lot of parents aren’t going to call a doctor if their kid only has an intermittent low-grade fever, a cough, and muscle stiffness. (They know what the doc is going to say: if the fever gets worse, or any alarming…

“In the closing arguments the crown prosecutor stated: ‘This trial is not about murder. It is not about manslaughter. It is not about any offence concerning death. The Crown does not need to prove the accused contributed in any way or had a hand in a death.’”

I disagree. They lost a child. They have to live the rest of their lives knowing they might have saved him. They have hundreds of thousands in debt and their other kids have been taken away from them.

All this even though the parents say, and the evidence supports (e.g. the testimony of their nurse friend who saw them…

Actually, the kid mostly had mild flu-like symptoms during those 2 weeks—even the day before he died (when the parents called their friend, a registered nurse, who reassured them that their son’s symptoms were not severe + that if they went to the hospital they would be told to just go home so the boy could rest).

Without thoroughly examining the facts of the case, is not fair to assume, that the parents refused to take their child to a hospital when he was on the brink of death because they thought they could do a better job treating him than an MD. The parents called their friend, an ER Registered Nurse, the day before their…

Without thoroughly examining the facts of the case, is not fair to assume, as this article clearly does (and after briefly reading about the court proceedings, I think this is especially true), that the parents refused to take their child to a hospital when he was on the brink of death because they thought they could…

Please don’t include spoilers in titles! Nothing against writing articles with spoilers, obviously, but a warning in the title is a courtesy to those readers of yours who haven’t watched the latest episode of a show for whatever reason (e.g., too busy during the week and have to catch up on TV on the weekend). I’m…

ME TOO! He was my favorite Top Chef ever! I was literally googling him yesterday because I wanted to see if his restaurant was near me.

There’s Hell Toupee didn’t say anything outlandish or particularly offensive; s/he simply made the (perfectly plausible) argument that in certain period pieces, like Outlander or Vikings, adding roles for black actors for the sake of diversity might detract from the historical authenticity or believability of the…

OK yeah just re-read that bit in my last post about white girls having to work a lot harder to prove they are edgy/interesting and realized that was a big stretch and also made me sound like an asshole. I do, however, think that a pale, pretty, blonde girl with a soft voice, like Taylor Swift, is more likely to be…

Have you listened to Red? I wasn’t a T-Swift fan till I heard it. I thought her lyrics were so thoughtful and insightful—I seriously have a hard time not crying listening to some of those songs (knowing they’re about Jake Gyllenhaal makes them even sadder-who wouldn’t want to write a whole album about him?) If you ask…

“Vanilla white girl we all roll our eyes over”?