Sunday Child Bite

I saw a child hitting and kicking his mother the other day, totally out of control. I couldn't stand it any longer and called the police for backup. I held the child in a restraint method until the police arrived. When the police arrived, they called for a mental health officer for backup.

The mental health officer tried to snap the child out of it, and was able to eventually able do so through taking the child to his vehicle (as if he was going to take the six year old child to the detention center) and talking to him. It took the police officer, the mental health officer, and myself to calm the child down before they the police and mental health officers left the place.

This was all due to the lack of medications which had been lost on bus transportation from one city to another. Unfortunately, because it was Sunday, the access for the found language was still unavailable. The mother had the rest of the day to wait out until the child could even go to the mental health facility to get his temporary amount of medications.

A few hours later the child had another outburst. The Mom and I were able to get him to calm down though and, eventually, the child went to sleep. The next day the child went to the mental health facility to get his temporary dose of meds until the luggage was able to be retrieved. Another person reported that the child is doing better today.

Thank goodness! It is just a shame that the child had to go through all that just because he was unable to gain access to his meds. Oh, well... Alls well that ends well -- right????

Note: Because I had not had a tetnus shot since 1986, I got one on Monday. You are really supposed to get one every 10 years, but people aren't reminded about it until they are bit by an animal, usually. If you haven't had your tetnus shot lately, let this serve also as a reminder for you to get your tetnus today, if you haven't had one in 10 years or more!! :)