Quote Originally Posted by joycenalex
this happens a lot. listen up people of columbus!!!!!
this is an XRAY DEPARTMENT, NOT A BABYSITTING SERVICE! you cannot bring an infant, toddler or small child into the xray room while you have films done.

Maybe it is an Ohio thing...but, a similar vent, with an opposite view (Of course, right? I am nothing if not oppositional )

Jonah and I have an emergency trip to Children's hospital (note- Children's Hospital, emphasis on the word -Children). We are stuck in an exam room that looks like a toddler's DREAM! Chock full of things to climb, drawers UNLOCKED, just begging to be opened and shut a million times, cords to plug and unplug, an exam table to climb on, a sink to get into, buttons to push, get my point? The lady says to me (not a nurse, or medical person, but, the person that is in charge of stocking the drawers) when I point out to her that someone left the drawers of medical supplies OPENED, "well, YOU are responsible for your child". Hello? Do you think I don't know that? BUT, I am in your facility, your CHILD friendly facility, waiting in an exam room for OVER ONE HOUR (with a toddler, that translates into about 4 hours and 13 minutes)
and when I point out your staff's forgetfullness in locking the drawers up, you get pissy with me? (Note to medical community, when a new mom has a bloodied faced child in the ER at 730 am, back off, she isn't in the mood).

So, after a few terse paragraphs with this woman, we waited about another two minutes, and I took Jones and walked down the hall. Someone said, "where are you going"? I said, "to the waiting room, I can't wait in that type of room with a toddler". She immediately said, "oh, no, you should wait over here..." and put us in a nice, child friendly exam room, with books, little toys, etc. We were in a dental exam room I coulda given that other lady a little bloody nose.....


So...while I do agree that taking kids to an adult appointment is usually a 'no no', I have to ask for some understanding with toddlers. Something I never really recognized pre-Jones. Life with a toddler can be a little bit challenging, and often, the parent is doing the best he/she can. Can't leave them at home, can't bring them with us....