Today’s blog is going to piggy back on the “Silent Drowning”
blog I posted a couple of days ago and will focus on safety…and then I will go
back to happy entries. I decided to talk
about three issues because two of my friends recently brought them up. The third is one that has always freaked me
out.
First: Secondary
drowning. After I posted about Isabella
almost drowning, my friend Desiree added this additional information that is
very valuable. Here is the blog post http://www.delightedmomma.com/2014/05/secondary-drowning-my-recent-experience.html. Secondary drowning is basically when a child
(or adult) consumes too much water in a period of time. I remember reading
about it a few years ago and am psycho about my kids not drinking pool water on
purpose. If a small child is in a pool
all day and drinks and drinks the water, they could die. If your child goes under for a short amount
of time, seems better, they could die.
It is very scary.
Second: Leaving your
baby in the car on accident. My friend
Jenny brought this up at lunch the other day.
Every year babies die strapped in their car seats, left in the heat
because their loving parents changed their routine and forgot they had the
baby. It is one of those horrible freak
accidents that could happen to any of us.
I remember it happened to an assistant principal in the Houston/Katy area. How many times have you had the same routine over
and over and accidently do it when you are supposed to do something else. We are creatures of habit. The Parents magazine
suggested putting something you need next to the baby if you are not normally
the person to drop the baby off, something to make you go to the back of your car. Sadly, this is something that could happen to
any of us, but people are ostracized and treated horribly. Same thing for accidently running over your
child that you do not know is in the drive way.
Finally: Never go
with an abductor, even if they have a gun to your head. I taught high school seniors for fourteen
years. Every once and a while when I
remembered I would include this in my end of year advice.
I was always amazed that 99% of the time, these young adults had never
heard this. I think Generation X and older
people remember watching Oprah and watching episodes about this type of
topic. Here is the bottom line. The second you get taken to the second
location, you are basically dead…and what they do to you before they kill you
is probably going to be bad. I hate to
be so blunt, but this is the reality. If
a predator puts a gun to your head and demands you get into a car, you have a
better chance of surviving being shot in that location (remember to run away in
a zig zag direction) than getting in that car.
Ok…and on a slightly lighter note, but still kind of morbid/
weird. I have made no effort to hide the fact that I am obsessed with the ID
channel. It amazes me the number of
stories I have watched where the wife has told someone (neighbor, child,
friend) that if something happens to them, make sure and have the husband
investigated….Here is my question…How do you stay married to a person that you
think may or may not kill you at any time???? In one case a woman had a feeling. She found a list her husband wrote of ways to
kill someone. She took a picture of it
and then wrote a letter saying if she dies, to check out the husband. She sealed this in an envelope along with the
pictures of the list. She gave it to the
neighbor and asked the neighbor to keep it and give it to the police if
something happens to her…Ok…this story is so screwed up on many levels. First, the neighbor never opened the sealed
letter and gave it to the police when she died.
Second, the husband’s attorney fought to have it inadmissible in court
because “people have the right to face their accuser”. He won in the first round, but lost in the
second round because the judge ruled he made it impossible for her to be
present. Finally, a recent federal judge
has overturned the ruling saying that the letter should not be admissible. So people, the lesson of the story, if you
have any inkling your spouse wants to knock you off, leave…..fast….
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