[blparent] Parenting and blindness

[Gabe Vega]

I got this same statement from my doctor.

On Aug 14, 2012, at 12:08 PM, "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at msn.com> wrote:

> One time when we took my daughter to the pediatrician, she had a rug burn all down one side of her face from just below her eye to her chin.  I was terrified of what the doctor was going to think.  I told him she got the rug burn because she was trying to stand up on a rocking chair for the hundredth time after we'd reminded her that chairs are for sitting in, and she fell face first on the carpet.  The doctor said if he saw a child who came in with no bumps or bruises, he would worry that the kid wasn't active enough, and maybe that he or she sat on the couch and watched too much TV at a young age.
> 
> Jo Elizabeth
> 
> I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.--Stephen Jay Gould
> -----Original Message----- From: Sheila Leigland
> Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 12:20 PM
> To: Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Parenting and blindness
> 
> Jo Elizabeth I agree with you completely on this one. When mark was four or five the kids were playing outside with there uncle and he swung mark around and his elbow popped out of position. We took him to the emergency room and at least six people wanted to know what happened. We were questioned mnark was questioned and my sister that took us to the hospital was also questioned. I hafvve no idea what would have happened if my husband and I had taken him in alone.Sometimes you have no idea where a bruise on a young child comes from.
> When mark was around eight I took him in to get checked for strep throat and we had a coctor that we didn't know and her main concern was a tiny bruise aboove his right eye that I didn't even know he had.
> 
> sheila Leigland
> 
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