Mom Shamed Online For Taking Her Daughter With Broken Bone To The Hospital

With our kids all at home and some of us trying to work at the same time, it's impossible to truly prevent accidents from happening. Sometimes, things happen and we have to deal with it accordingly.

Sharing her story on Facebook, the mom wrote that during the pandemic, her daughter ended up breaking her finger. Obviously this is something that required a trip to the hospital.

She wrote on her Facebook post:

"I’ve been relatively calm regarding corona. We’re young, we’re healthy. We’re taking precautions, we have faith. But as I sit here in the hospital, a place I’ve spent the majority of my career comfortably working in, I feel unnerved.⁣"

"It’s eerily empty. Everyone’s in masks or hazmat suits. If you walk down the hallway, people scatter out of your way. I miss faces, and smiles, and full deep breaths," she wrote.

"And then there’s the fear I feel as I wipe down every surface my child touches, or think about the fact that she can no longer ride her bike or run through the sprinkler — the things in quarantine that were pulling us through," she wrote on Facebook.

She told the website Love What Matters that some people were leaving nasty comments on her post.

The comments ranged from, "You’re a horrible mother for taking your child to a hospital during Corona," to, "I noticed she touched the wall in the video. She’s probably infected now."

Many shared stories of their own troubles when their child broke a bone or sprained something and had to be rushed to the hospital. It's something many parents go through regularly.

Bringing your child into the emergency room or doctor's office regularly can be a huge pain, but doing so when there's a global health crisis going on can definitely add extra stress.

No matter what happens, taking care of your family comes first. Letting the bone heal on its own could have left permanent damages and many people praised the mom for doing what is right.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with a mother taking her daughter to the hospital to ensure she has the proper care needed to repair her broken finger.

"It’s not a crime to take a child with a broken bone to the hospital. It is not a crime to be scared during so much uncertainty. But let us not forget that equally as contagious as a virus is kindness," she said.

With the entire world on pause and getting super nervous when around other individuals during this time, it's important to not let our fears project onto other people.

Giving advice is one thing, but shaming a mother for taking care of her child when she is in pain is something we should all avoid.

"I don’t pay much mind to people online, but this insensate need to tear a mother down for repairing her child’s broken bone really made me think about a lesser-known side effect of Corona: Fear," she said.

You never know the full story and reasoning behind things. And, if a mother is going to get her child help — there's nothing more to say.

h/t: Love What Matters