Let me say right off the bat that my heart goes out to these parents and their child.  As those of you who read my blog know, I have grown kids of my own and am expecting two new grandbabies this summer.

At the same time, this is an opportunity to remind parents, grandparents and others who have children under their protection to please, please never use items that are not specifically intended for children.  Unless an item specifically states that it is for the use of children don’t buy it—no matter how cute it would look in “little Sally’s room.”

As a Nurse Life Care Planner, these types of cases are especially heartbreaking, because without even putting pen to paper, I have a good idea of the millions of dollars in future medical costs and sacrifices this family will have to make over the course of this little girl’s lifetime.  That misery will be heaped onto the guilt the parents must surely feel as well as the devastation of what might have been this little girl’s life.