If your child were about to go on a fishing trip/camping trip and he was having seizures, would you not feel you needed to alert the people in whose care he would be?
Would you just blow off something that alarmed you so much that you made a Dr's appt and NOT tell people taking him into unfamiliar campsites, near water, on a houseboat...that something was wrong, the child was blanking out....acting strange.
Why, when Kyron was leaving THAT day...did Teri not relay her fears about Kyron's seizures to the very people who would be caring for him?
What loving parent would NOT do THAT?
BBM: I don't know what this means. Had Kyron been camping with someone? Was he going camping? I only knew about the older son going camping.:waitasec:
Honestly I think the whole seizure thing has been blown WAY out of proportion. My guess would be that Kyron had had one or two episodes where he seemed "blank." After the second time or so, she may have called the doctor, as I have a billion and one times, and asked for a nurse to call her back. The nurse, upon hearing the description of this random thing (not an emergency by anyone's standards) probably said, "Well, let's get him in here. It could be anything from a middle ear infection to fatigue to even a petit mal seizure where he just zones out for a minute. What day would work for you?"
Or Terri could have been, again like me, one of those moms who reads just a little too much online and she could have asked the nurse, "Could it be a seizure?" And the nurse would say, "Well, it could. But he could also be overtired or ADD or just a forgetful kid." Trying to calm her down.
If he was having the seizures very randomly, like one or two a month, I certainly wouldn't race him to the emergency room. I also know that when one of my kids was having random stomachaches a few years ago, the dr. didn't even want to see me for a week, during which I was supposed to track every bit of food. It was so frustrating to me, but after talking on the phone there was no clear evidence that he was actually "sick" but more likely that something else was going on. The dr or nurse may have had her wait and keep track of if it happened on a certain day or time first. OR asked for the teacher to fill out a form so they could see if there were any indications of a problem at school.
But I also think it's one of those things that seems to be possibly more important in hindsight. Before June 4 Terri may have been a little concerned, and just unsure enough about what she had seen that she didn't even tell Kaine yet. Maybe she wanted to see if he noticed it too, or if she was just imagining it. But on June 5, grasping at straws, it might have seemed like a logical explanation for why a normally compliant child might have wandered away. Think of it: if she is innocent, she had to be hoping against hope that he was lost just behind the school and would be found, wet and tired and cold and hungry, at any moment.
In the same way, I think a lot is being made out of Baby K being "sick." I don't recall anyone saying she was sick; she was fussy and acting like her ear hurt, and was most likely teething. Hence the search for Infant Tylenol or Motrin (which has been off the shelves randomly over the past year due to a recall), the desire to leave the school sooner than planned, possibly the drive, and the willingness to bring her to the gym. Teething isn't contagious, and distraction is often the best solution.
Terri has given us plenty of ammunition against her. She has made herself a fabulous suspect with the sexting and the secret landscaper, regardless of what actually happened between them. I'm certainly not defending her, I just don't think it's necessary to find evil in some of these truly mundane things.
