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<blockquote data-quote="slsh" data-source="post: 25975" data-attributes="member: 8"><p>Sorry you're dealing with- this escalation. It's the pits.</p><p></p><p>Having called 911 more times than I can remember, I can tell you what our criteria was (but it is different for each family): Any behavior that was violent, to the point that it could not be contained. Even at 6, there were times when it was impossible to restrain thank you (you probably know how those raging kids can be 10 times stronger than you'd ever expect). Also, raging that I could restrain but that went on longer than an hour or so. Any time he ran, I called 911 - his response to the police who picked him up determined whether he'd be transported to hospital. *Any* suicidal/homocidal gesture, period.</p><p></p><p>Regardless of whether he was intentionally or unintentionally trying to hurt someone else or himself, the bottom line is he was unsafe and I couldn't protect any of us. Our situation was compounded by the fact that I have a nonambulatory kid who cannot protect himself from flying objects - more than a few episodes with- thank you where I had to call the police/EMTs because I couldn't catch him and he was completely trashing our house, putting all his sibs at risk but especially Boo.</p><p></p><p>*Always* when I called when he was younger, I requested assistance with- an unstable mentally ill child. While the police always show up with- the ambulance in our village, they knew they weren't there to arrest but to assist with- transport. By the time he was older and an arrest might possibly have been more appropriate (maybe, who knows), our village staff knew my family well enough that they would just contain and transport him. </p><p></p><p>I know the first dozen times or so I called 911, I felt like a complete *idiot*. I mean, what parent can't control their kid? :wink: But this is gfgland and truthfully, there are few of us who really can safely contain an over-the-top raging difficult child. You may still be able to do it now, I don't know. Unfortunately, if things continue to escalate as difficult child gets bigger... you may end up having to take this step. Hindsight being 20/20, I'm glad I called early and often - probably saved us a lot of physical pain and it certainly highlighted the fact that thank you was an incredibly unstable kiddo. </p><p></p><p>One other thought - we always had it documented in thank you's outpatient medical record that we were trained on a regular basis on how to safely restrain him (CYA). However, once he hit about 9, we were told that it was no longer safe to do a single-person hold and if he needed to be restained, I needed to call 911 and have him transported. It really boils down to safety - for you, the family, and difficult child.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="slsh, post: 25975, member: 8"] Sorry you're dealing with- this escalation. It's the pits. Having called 911 more times than I can remember, I can tell you what our criteria was (but it is different for each family): Any behavior that was violent, to the point that it could not be contained. Even at 6, there were times when it was impossible to restrain thank you (you probably know how those raging kids can be 10 times stronger than you'd ever expect). Also, raging that I could restrain but that went on longer than an hour or so. Any time he ran, I called 911 - his response to the police who picked him up determined whether he'd be transported to hospital. *Any* suicidal/homocidal gesture, period. Regardless of whether he was intentionally or unintentionally trying to hurt someone else or himself, the bottom line is he was unsafe and I couldn't protect any of us. Our situation was compounded by the fact that I have a nonambulatory kid who cannot protect himself from flying objects - more than a few episodes with- thank you where I had to call the police/EMTs because I couldn't catch him and he was completely trashing our house, putting all his sibs at risk but especially Boo. *Always* when I called when he was younger, I requested assistance with- an unstable mentally ill child. While the police always show up with- the ambulance in our village, they knew they weren't there to arrest but to assist with- transport. By the time he was older and an arrest might possibly have been more appropriate (maybe, who knows), our village staff knew my family well enough that they would just contain and transport him. I know the first dozen times or so I called 911, I felt like a complete *idiot*. I mean, what parent can't control their kid? [img]:wink:[/img] But this is gfgland and truthfully, there are few of us who really can safely contain an over-the-top raging difficult child. You may still be able to do it now, I don't know. Unfortunately, if things continue to escalate as difficult child gets bigger... you may end up having to take this step. Hindsight being 20/20, I'm glad I called early and often - probably saved us a lot of physical pain and it certainly highlighted the fact that thank you was an incredibly unstable kiddo. One other thought - we always had it documented in thank you's outpatient medical record that we were trained on a regular basis on how to safely restrain him (CYA). However, once he hit about 9, we were told that it was no longer safe to do a single-person hold and if he needed to be restained, I needed to call 911 and have him transported. It really boils down to safety - for you, the family, and difficult child. [/QUOTE]
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