To Help a Friend
I am posting this information on behalf of a wonderful friend, and her loving son. If you know of anyway that you can help also, it would be most appreciated. She has been trying to get a recall on the below mentioned product for years now with no success. PLEASE help if you can:
I am writing this blog with the hopes that someone can help me make sense of all this drama I am going through. My son has been suffering for over EIGHT years. He is short of breath and extremely fatigued. He used to be very lively playing basketball, skate boarding, roller skating, bike riding... all the activities children do as they grow. But ever since his accident on a loft bed ladder, all I hear from him now is " Mom, when am I going to get better?" It hurts me to my heart to see my son like this.
Many children dream of owning a bunkbed and it's every parents' nightmare when a child seriously injures him/herself in an accident. As a parent you have to weigh in the balance whether you made the right decision in behalf of your child. I purchased a loft bed for my son at the age of nine. He was climbing the ladder to go to bed and fractured his leg in two places. Now, he needs alot of IV fluids to help balance his body and to help him breathe. His thymus gland is huge with a mass. The thymus gland usually shrinks as you get older but I guess due to his accident, his body went into reverse. I know all of this sounds far-fetched but we're living it.
One doctor alone is trying to help him, the other professionals made him feel like his problem is all in his head. It is horrible enough when you are sick and the doctors have no answers but to make him feel like it is all in his mind is completely lacking in compassion. The test that helps the doctor to know what is really going on inside his body, the manufacture all of a sudden stopped making the test available. How convenient on their part to make the consumer in want of heart. The test is called plasma vascular volume which measures your total blood volume. My son had it done twice and since he has been getting the IV fluids now it is not available to him so the doctor can determine if his treatments are helping him. It could be that the fluids are shrinking the thymus the more the body corrects its balance. I don't know. We are lost and my son continues to suffer.
I believe that my son is suffering the way he is due to him fracturing his bones years ago. I believe that the loftbed I brought is the culprit and the CPSC (US CONSUMERS PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION) that came into my home to inquire regarding the report, should bear some of the responsibility by investigating whether that ladder is actually safe. I bear my responsibility for making a bad decision on purchasing it. Now a minor is suffering behind adults making bad decisions, and because, as I was told, its just one child so they won't recall it or do anything about rectifying the manufacturing. To me they are sending the message to let a few more children get injured first, then its worth recalling the product!
I am reminded of a Bible text, "What do you think? If a certain man comes to have a hundred sheep and one of them gets strayed, will he not leave the ninety-nine upon the mountains and set out on a search for the one that is straying." (Matthew 18:12)
One child is too many.
Please pay special attention to the step rungs. These are what allegedly caused the young man mentioned in this entry to be severly injured. As per her lawyer, "he was injured while using a ladder attached to his bunk bed that was defective, unsafe and inadequately designed." Please help if you can. They are like FAMILY to me and my family. The mentality of 'it's just one child' must be stopped. Whether it is her child or someone else's, the feeling is the same. She is a loving parent who needs our help. THANK YOU.
I am writing this blog with the hopes that someone can help me make sense of all this drama I am going through. My son has been suffering for over EIGHT years. He is short of breath and extremely fatigued. He used to be very lively playing basketball, skate boarding, roller skating, bike riding... all the activities children do as they grow. But ever since his accident on a loft bed ladder, all I hear from him now is " Mom, when am I going to get better?" It hurts me to my heart to see my son like this.
Many children dream of owning a bunkbed and it's every parents' nightmare when a child seriously injures him/herself in an accident. As a parent you have to weigh in the balance whether you made the right decision in behalf of your child. I purchased a loft bed for my son at the age of nine. He was climbing the ladder to go to bed and fractured his leg in two places. Now, he needs alot of IV fluids to help balance his body and to help him breathe. His thymus gland is huge with a mass. The thymus gland usually shrinks as you get older but I guess due to his accident, his body went into reverse. I know all of this sounds far-fetched but we're living it.
One doctor alone is trying to help him, the other professionals made him feel like his problem is all in his head. It is horrible enough when you are sick and the doctors have no answers but to make him feel like it is all in his mind is completely lacking in compassion. The test that helps the doctor to know what is really going on inside his body, the manufacture all of a sudden stopped making the test available. How convenient on their part to make the consumer in want of heart. The test is called plasma vascular volume which measures your total blood volume. My son had it done twice and since he has been getting the IV fluids now it is not available to him so the doctor can determine if his treatments are helping him. It could be that the fluids are shrinking the thymus the more the body corrects its balance. I don't know. We are lost and my son continues to suffer.
I believe that my son is suffering the way he is due to him fracturing his bones years ago. I believe that the loftbed I brought is the culprit and the CPSC (US CONSUMERS PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION) that came into my home to inquire regarding the report, should bear some of the responsibility by investigating whether that ladder is actually safe. I bear my responsibility for making a bad decision on purchasing it. Now a minor is suffering behind adults making bad decisions, and because, as I was told, its just one child so they won't recall it or do anything about rectifying the manufacturing. To me they are sending the message to let a few more children get injured first, then its worth recalling the product!
I am reminded of a Bible text, "What do you think? If a certain man comes to have a hundred sheep and one of them gets strayed, will he not leave the ninety-nine upon the mountains and set out on a search for the one that is straying." (Matthew 18:12)
One child is too many.
Please pay special attention to the step rungs. These are what allegedly caused the young man mentioned in this entry to be severly injured. As per her lawyer, "he was injured while using a ladder attached to his bunk bed that was defective, unsafe and inadequately designed." Please help if you can. They are like FAMILY to me and my family. The mentality of 'it's just one child' must be stopped. Whether it is her child or someone else's, the feeling is the same. She is a loving parent who needs our help. THANK YOU.