| That's exactly how I feel, Spockey. The more I think about it, the more I think it's a case of carelessness and negligence. As Carang said, many of us have burned ourselves (and in my previous post I also admitted to accidentally turning on the hot tap water on my 3 year old) but ending up with a second degree burn? If the helper's hand was under the tap too, she could've pulled my baby's hand away after a few seconds, but the fact that her own hand was not under the tap meant that my daughter's hand was there for quite some time for it to result in a second degree burn even though she was screaming and crying. She is a 13 month old, not like my 3 year old who can tell me the water is hot.
I feel so sad that my baby cannot enjoy all the things we have planned like going to the water park, playing at the water table in the backyard, even bathing is a struggle now because I have to wrap her bandaged hand with saran wrap and then plastic bag every time and I need another person to help hold her hand up so as not to get water anywhere near the hand (doctor's advise).
Thanks for all the advise.  |