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iRend posted:

Paramedic called to his own home where his baby son had died

‘He never liked kisses and cuddles much but when he was dead we could give him as many as we wanted and he couldn’t squirm away from us.’
errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr^100

But it’s not all bad news as the couple have since had two healthy daughters and are now raising money for a SIDS charity by completing a bike ride.
It's OK, we made more! and we ride bikes now!

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Karma Monkey posted:

Jimmy Nsubuga, WTF is wrong with you?

iRend posted:

‘He never liked kisses and cuddles much but when he was dead we could give him as many as we wanted and he couldn’t squirm away from us.’

Antivehicular posted:

This is fake, right? I don't want to believe someone actually said that about their freshly-dead toddler.

quote:

They noticed that the exhausted father-to-be, now nicknamed Randy, had lost a little weight, but did not realise why until they discovered he was actually a male rodent being kept busy in the wrong pen.

Platystemon posted:

Guinea pig to become father to 400 after breaking into female enclosure


Shine on you crazy diamond.

Antivehicular posted:

This is fake, right? I don't want to believe someone actually said that about their freshly-dead toddler.

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Sam, who was almost two years old, had suffered Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) in June 2012.

Platystemon posted:

Guinea pig to become father to 400 after breaking into female enclosure


Shine on you crazy diamond.

pookel posted:

Either fake, or terrible journalism. There's no such thing as SIDS affecting toddlers. Either it's straight-up fake, the information is wrong, or someone smothered that kid.

pookel posted:

Either fake, or terrible journalism. There's no such thing as SIDS affecting toddlers. Either it's straight-up fake, the information is wrong, or someone smothered that kid.

SEX BURRITO posted:

It's SUDC - sudden unexplained death in childhood - if the kid is over the age of one. Much more rare. The journalist probably put SIDS because everyone knows what that means, and he couldn't be bothered explaining the difference.

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pookel posted:

Either fake, or terrible journalism. There's no such thing as SIDS affecting toddlers. Either it's straight-up fake, the information is wrong, or someone smothered that kid.

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PARAMEDIC Pete Keach was enjoying a typically uneventful evening with wife Georgie and baby son Sam after a busy day on duty in Rosebud.

After a day spent running, falling over, shedding a few tears and then getting up to run again, Sam went to bed at 7pm, but continued to play and giggle in his cot for 20 minutes before falling asleep.

Georgie heard Sam call out at about 8.30pm, around the same time Pete’s pager alerted him to an emergency at Safety Beach.

With his patient in a very serious condition and Frankston Hospital unable to accept more emergency patients, Pete was driving to Dandenong Hospital at the same time that Georgie popped into Sam’s room at 9.15pm while making her own way to bed.

“Nothing had been odd that day, so I didn’t expect I would find him like he was,” Georgie said.

“I found him face down and I know a lot of babies sleep like that, but he never did.

“I turned him straight away — I have never seen someone die before but I was pretty sure he was dead, but was hopeful that wasn’t the case.

“I called the ambulance straight away but I knew that Pete was working in the local ambulance (so it was out of town).”

Pete was racing along Frankston Freeway when the night’s second emergency call came over the radio: a 21-month-old infant was in cardiac arrest and in the most desperate need of help.

Pete knew if it wasn’t his own son it would be a friend from their mothers’ group.

When his calls to Georgie went unanswered he radioed the 000 dispatcher and was told to switch to the clinician’s channel where Pete was told the gut-wrenching news.

“There was a pause and he said ‘yes Pete, it is your address’,” he said.

“Forty-five minutes earlier I would have been home and able to respond to it.

“I would have been the closest ambulance, so they dispatched the next closest, which was coming from Mornington, 35-40km away.

“I got to hear the call, the initial situation report, so I knew what the rhythm of his heart was.

“Babies’ hearts usually stop for an unknown reason so my instant thoughts were for Georgie, because I knew there was not much that could happen for Sam and she was home alone. That was more distressing for me.”

Unable to respond, Pete was helpless as he listened to the terror unfold over the radio.

Another Ambulance Victoria crew was organised to meet his ambulance on the side of the freeway to help
his paramedic partner get their patient to Dandenong, while Pete was driven back
to Rye.

As he waited Pete called a neighbour skilled in first aid to run to his home and help Georgie with CPR until an ambulance arrived.

A local ambulance busy with a non-emergency patient also heard the drama unfolding, stopped what they were doing and made their way to Rye to cut the response time to about 20 minutes, while an air ambulance was en route.

But, even after three Ambulance Victoria crews arrived on scene and were trying to resuscitate Sam, little could be done and Pete made the heartbreaking decision to call time on his own son’s life over the phone.

“I don’t think anything could have been done,” Pete said. “When the first crew got there Sam’s heart was flatlined, there was no activity of life.

“I was still in clinical mode, which was surprising.

“I thought he had been dead for an unknown time until Georgie had found him, another 20 minutes before the ambulance got there, his chances of survival are literally zero.

“Once I heard he was in asystolic arrest I called the clinician up and said ‘I don’t think we should continue the resus any more’.

“That would have meant the helicopter would have taken him into the city, it would have been invasive (with) tubes in his throat, needles in his bones and, at the very least, you think of severe brain injury and those sorts of things.

“Whether that was the right move to make, I am not too sure; however, that is what happened and that is the clarity we had at the time.

“I am not bitter at myself or doubting anything, it is just what happened at the time.”

Despite fearing the worst from the moment she found Sam, the delay for paramedics and his lack of response during CPR, Georgie had been hoping for a miracle as she tried to cope alone. “When Pete was on the phone to the paramedics I could see they were uncomfortable in that Pete had made that call, and they felt they needed to be appearing to help for my sake because we hadn’t had that conversation in person together,” she said.

Almost four years after the horror night, Sam’s death is classified as a sudden and unexpected death in infancy, or SUDI.

In the wake of the tragedy Ambulance Victoria, SIDS & Kids and the Rye community rallied around the couple.

For Georgie meeting other families through SIDS for Kids made life easier in the initial stages, while the arrivals of Anna, 2, and Lucy, 1, has given her life a joyous new meaning.

Next Friday Pete will join 79 other riders in the Sydney2CAMberra event, cycling from Sydney to Canberra to raise money and awareness for SIDS and Kids and The Stillbirth Foundation.

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JesustheDarkLord posted:

I think you mean Chuck Tingle

Wheat Loaf posted:

Sorry, I didn't read the whole article - if I had, I would have known that the vegetable in question was shoved up his rear end by a gay vampire dinosaur his own rear end.

Magnus Praeda posted:

fixed

Wheat Loaf posted:

Sorry, I didn't read the whole article - if I had, I would have known that the vegetable in question was shoved up his rear end by the future newspaper article "Doctors remove 18-inch cassava from man who tried to use it as a sex toy."