Two Boys, 5 & 7, Severely Burned By Sun Exposure During Daycare Trip. 2nd & 3rd Degree Burns.

[araisner]

GRAPHIC PHOTOS: 1, 2 (also in video at link)

http://www.newson6.com/story/29640390/mother-two-vinita-boys-severely-sunburned-during-daycare-trip

VINITA, Oklahoma -

An Oklahoma mother says her two young sons were severely sunburned while in the care of a Vinita daycare.

Shaunna Broadway says the 'Happiness Is A Learning Center' let her 5- and 7-year-old sons play outside Friday without shirts or sunscreen. When the boys got home their mother says they were crying and large, painful blisters had formed on their backs and shoulders.

"They didn't put no sunscreen on them and no shirt and when I asked them about it, they claimed they were out of sunscreen and that they told the kids to put on their shirts, but they didn't want to leave them on," Broadway said.

Broadway says her boys were sent home from two different hospitals with pain medication and cream, but says neither provided her sons with relief.

"Then things got worse, especially with my oldest one. He started to started to complain of chest pains and not being able to breathe and his chest started swelling," she said.

That's when Broadway took her boys to the Hillcrest Medical Center Burn Unit in Tulsa. Within 10 minutes, she says she was told her sons needed to be life-flighted to Shriner's Hospital in Texas, which has children's facility that specializes in burns.

Seven-year-old Conner Harvey and his 5-year-old brother, Tray Wells, are being treated for second and third-degree sunburns.​

It seems DHS and the Vinita Police Department are investigating, but no formal charges yet.

 

[misfirefly]

oh my freakin' god. I can't even imagine how i'd react to something like that. And how in the hell can a daycare center not be aware of the dangers of over-exposure to the sun in TEXAS of all places.

 

[Kittyskyfish]

OhhhEEEE that's a bad burn!!! They're lucky to go to the Shriner's Burn Center, but my GAWD I'd wish they never got burned at all! Crazy day care people better have insurance.

 

[SimplySpaztastic]

Omg. That is some HORRIBLE sunburn. They were life flighted to Shriners burn center!!!

I would totally flip shit. My mini has sunblock in his bag and knows to ask for help reapplying it. He is 8...

That daycare was NEGLEGENT. Period

 

[cubby]

Holy COW! I have never in my life seen a sunburn that bad and I live in Georgia and have all my life, never, ever, ever! I hope that daycare is closed, like immediaely cause they obviously don't understand the relationship between sun and sunburned. Somebody would be dead if that was my son. THE END, no ifs ands or buts about it, dead!

 

[thebooblady]

I feel even worse for the kids after reading their mother's fb. And someone responded as if they could read that mess of nonsense.
https://m.facebook.com/shaunna.broadway?tsid=0.29965963773429394&source=typeahead

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[araisner]

If I may.

Just because you take "married" off your fb doesn't change the fact you still are, it just means your trying to hide something. But remember god sees and knows all, including the fact that you have no grounds spiritually to divorce me and you know it. You'll have to answer to god for it, and so will those condoning you to do such when it's biblically wrong. You don't just throw your marriage away when crap hits the fan; it's a lifetime covenant made to me, our kids, and above all god. I've done nothing to deserve this and the fact of the matter is everyone knows the real reasoning why you're doing this.

Yeah, everyone else needs to know the truth, too. The man I've been with for years left over a stupid arguement and has been gone for over (?) months, and now wants a divorce because he decided he likes getting to hang with his friends and doing what he wants versus having a family to take care of. Also, he's got another woman that he's infatuated with too much to wake up and listen to god trying to tell him to make this right. Or the fact that he's got kids and a wife crying their self to sleep every night at home praying and hoping he'd wake up and do what's right.

Now don't get me wrong, I've had my fair share of imperfections in this marriage but nothing close to to the hell I've been through for this man and yet even after all this current pain he put me through, I've done nothing but try to make my wrongs and my situation right. (Which are no excuse for divorce, et cetera.) I've tried to show him what god has changed in me through all of this and I've tried to fight for this tooth and nail, to show him unconditional love and go above and beyond to show my love for him even when he's treating me like the scum of the earth. For what?! He knows as well as I do and has said as much that god put/ordained us together. Yet, he's choosing to let the enemy win in more way than one.

He wants to put off the facade of a doting husband and father but truth is that he's proven to be anything but. He's broken every vow, promise and word he ever made. You may think you have people fooled, but there are those that know the truth, including myself and above all, god. I pray god gets a hold of you soon and wakes you up before it's too late!!

Beyond hurt and broken. I don't understand. All of the promise, lies... I don't know the man you are anymore. You're not the man I knew, that god put with me, that I married. He would have never done any of this. How do I lett go of something that god gave me? How do I accept an end to a god-given promise? How am I supposed to wrap my head around this when I still love you, despite everything and knowing what god intended for us? The kids, who don't understand why daddy promised things to them and lied? How that person that once made me feel so loved, can cause so much hurt and pain and not even care. You've made every fear I stood on, every reason I had walls up when we first met proven evident. To know the pain I've been through in my life and promise to never make me feel that way again, only to do that ten times worse.

Okay, my brain hurts a bit from roughly translating all of that hot mess.

 

[rita]

If I may.



Okay, my brain hurts a bit from roughly translating all of that hot mess.

Thank you, lol. You should have your own app .

 

[cubby]

I tried reading it and got about a third of the way thru and my brain gave up. Why do folks write like this? Seems to be it takes more energy to capitalize random letters and throw in 3s and such than it would be to just write it correctly.

Going by what I did read, I think the person that wrote this is intellegent and could spell if they wanted to, it sounds very well written and not all random like some things we read. Just why? Writing it like this makes no sense to me unless you don't want anyone to actually read it.

 

[Keepalowprofile]

H01y c0w.
Internet piglatin.

 

[thebooblady]

If I may.



Okay, my brain hurts a bit from roughly translating all of that hot mess.

You did a great job! I couldn't even begin. She should have written it like that. Seems like all that gibberish would have been much easier to type the way you did it. Is there an app that capitalizes random letters and adds numbers? Why would one purposely type like that? I feel like I need answers! Lol

 

[araisner]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/carolinekee/graphic-sunburns

“I dropped them off at Happiness Is a Learning Center at 9 a.m., and that day they were going to Splash Pad, a local water park,” Broadway told BuzzFeed Life.

“I got off work at 5 p.m. and went to pick them up, and they were clearly burned. [The employees] were actually making fun of my older son, because both boys got sunburns but he was being a ‘baby’ and crying about it,” she said.

“It was common sense that they shouldn’t have been out in the sun all day, even if they wore their clothes,” Broadway said. “The heat index was 118 degrees in Vinita that day. The news was telling us not to be outside.”

Both boys had second-degree burns, but her oldest suffered third-degree burns as well. “My oldest is a redhead so he’s more fair-skinned and his burn was much worse,” his mom said.

Broadway said. “They’re getting better but it’s definitely taking time and it’s been really hard seeing them in so much pain and not sleeping…it’s a lot for a mom right now.”

“My kids need a voice — I’m that voice, and I just want justice for them,” their mom added. “And I don’t want this to ever happen to anyone else.”​

I gotta hand it to her, it sounds like her boys are her life and that's a lot more than could be said for many of the parents we see featured here.

 

[araisner]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...n-two-sons-flown-hospital-Texas-blisters.html

• Mother Shaunna Broadway of Vinita, Oklahoma, saw that her two sons were burned after Happiness Is a Learning Center took them to water park
• Pain continued despite creams and medication, and Conner, 7, and Tray, 5, had to be flown to hospital in Galveston, Texas, for treatment
• Children's grandfather says that skin grafts have been discussed
• Center, which has been cited 19 times by the Department of Human Services in the last 10 months, said they had run out of sunscreen
• Daycare now under investigation by DHS and the Vinita police

The children's grandfather Wayne Broadway told Daily Mail Online that the burnt skin had been removed from both the boys and that they were now in wraps that were being changed regularly.

Skin grafts have been discussed as a possibility if the condition of the burns does not improve, he said.

The elder Broadway is heading down to Galveston Tuesday morning to be with his daughter, who has faced the challenge alone with her boys.

'Apparently the swelling and pain on his back was so bad that he was having pressure on his chest,' she told Buzzfeed.

Broadway is seen trying to comfort her children as they yell in pain and complain that their burns itch.

In one graphic photo Conner is seen with a very large blister on his back, surrounded by anti-burn Silvadene cream that has become cracked as blisters form beneath it.

The children are expected to be in Galveston for up to five days.​

Video of the two little ones at the hospital at link. Poor things.

 

[disgusted4sho]

Holy shit. I didn't even know the sun could cause blisters like that. Those were huge. Those poor boys. Good thing they have a good mom.

 

[badfish76]

Yeah, this is in my neck of the woods. Happened in NE Oklahoma (I am in SE Kansas) and it has been WAY TOO HOT to have small kids outside. We live 3 blocks from the pool here and have a pass, but we don't go more than 2-3 hours and use SPF 50 sunscreen and are Native American and less likely to burn.

I am NOT NOT NOT blaming the mom, but I know in the Spring when my girl has outside activities at school they send a note asking us to send sunscreen and apply it at home before she leaves. This "daycare" (more like Child Torture Center) is a fucking POS! "Running out" of sunscreen when you KNEW there was a trip to a water park coming up??? Not asking for parents to send some from home? What if the SPF wasn't high enough if the center provided it? What if it caused a rash if the day care provided it??

There is no excuse and it makes me want to make the 47 miles trip to Vinita and kick somebody's ass!

 

[VLGRDSPLY]

this makes my heart break - so not ok, I saw this on FB this morning and my stomach flipped when I saw the pics... UGH

 

[Mata Hari]

This is soooo fucked up. The day care needs to be shut down. I got blistered sun burn on my nose once, just my nose and that shit was awful. These poor boys. For once, I hope mom sues the daycare!

 

[Satanica]

Center, which has been cited 19 times by the Department of Human Services in the last 10 months, said they had run out of sunscreen

Why was this fucking place still open then. If they were waiting until something really serious happened, they succeeded.

I had an older cousin who fell asleep on the beach and burned so badly he had blisters all over. We had gone to Georgia to visit them and he was lying in the bed with just underwear on and a fan blowing on him. He couldn't do anything else.

 

[Kittyskyfish]

WATER. That explains why they were so burned! It amplifies the sun's rays and increases burning. That daycare had no business letting children swim unprotected in the sun all day long! This happened to my dad's feet when we went to Myrtle Beach. He wore sunscreen and shirts but forgot to do the tops of his feet and burned them as he walked up and down the beach. His feet were so swollen and blistered that he had to go home in the back seat with his feet propped up.

@DIAFplease , have you seen UV protection swim wear for children? I wear the adult equivalent when I'm on vacation as it's extremely protective and durable in the water. This boy's suit is by Coolibar and has built-in SPF50+ protection. You'll still need to get their face, ears, and arms but it protects the back and shoulders, where bad burns often happen.

http://www.coolibar.com/product/UV-...-Surf-Shirt/pc/2223/c/2284/sc/2292/156343.uts

 

[Alf]

The heat index was 118 degrees in Vinita that day.

Doesn't matter. It's the ultraviolet light that does the burning.

--Al

 

[Abroad]

Broadway says her boys were sent home from two different hospitals with pain medication and cream, but says neither provided her sons with relief.

"Then things got worse, especially with my oldest one. He started to started to complain of chest pains and not being able to breathe and his chest started swelling," she said.

That's when Broadway took her boys to the Hillcrest Medical Center Burn Unit in Tulsa. Within 10 minutes, she says she was told her sons needed to be life-flighted to Shriner's Hospital in Texas, which has children's facility that specializes in burns.

What sort of hospitals were these first two places that they didn't realise how serious this was?

 

[JackBurton]

Okay, my brain hurts a bit from roughly translating all of that hot mess.

Your translation didn't make it any less pathetic and dumb. If anything it's worse, cuz now i can actually understand just how dumb this person is.

Anyways, hopefully this was a financially successful daycare and not just some podunk hick type of deal, unless they had solid insurance, so she can get a decent payday out of it.

The kids will heal and be fine, ginger one likely would have gotten hideous moles and freckles and sunspots and some form of skin cancer at some point anyways, so this doesn't change much for him in the grand scheme of things. Terrible they're hurtin now though.

The sun is deadly. Blows my mind how people continue to tan, either outside or via abooth, or simply don't wear sunscreen. And yes, i too wear a shirt to go swimming, mindblowing how peoples vanity outweighs their concern for their physical well being(and future vanity, which they'd be smart to take into account). Gotta show off my body in my skimpy bikini and whatnot, fucking impractical, obscene, and dangerous. People are fuckin idiots.