is this true

nieghbor claims a 6yr old drowned at hays swimming pool on the lazy river.......due the powersbe in hays have the power they think they do to block news like this getting out?

wow when did this supposedly happen?

I never heard or read a thing.......then again I read the HDN. So I don't get a lot of local news.

There was a firetruck and an ambulance there recently. But there are many reasons to be there.

They are doing a good job of keeping it out of the obits, also.

There was a rather bizarre report the other day, but I don't know the outcome or reality of what was reported. No one was reported as dead, or died that I know of.

maybe nothing happened, by the time I heard it , it has passed through many a mouth so maybe someone said they took their kid swimming and by the time it got to me it turned into a kid drowned.

There was a peculiar ambulance call to the water park about a kid "nearly" drowning. But I don't know all the details so won't guess. I'd think there'd be enough witnesses at that place for the story to be widely known.

the near drowning was a friend of mines child...3 yr old..life watched him to wichita...he is home and doing fine now... guess there is a thing called dry drowning that i had never heard of..but they took him to wichita in case he needed to be intubated (sp).

Link to info shown below.

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Definition:

Dry drowning is a common concern for parents since the reports in the summer of 2008 of a ten-year-old boy who was reported to have died of dry drowning more than an hour after he had gone swimming.

In dry drowning, there is a spasm of the larynx (breathing tube) that keeps inhaled water from going to the lungs. Unfortunately, this spasm can lead to high pressure and fluid leaking in the lungs. Although the lungs don't fill up with pool water, they still fill up with fluid and cause breathing problems.

It is important to note that dry drowning likely follows some kind of submersion in the water where the child felt like he was drowning. It is probably not going to happen in a child who is simply swimming and doesn't have any kind of incident.

Parents should also keep in mind that the episode that was reported to be dry drowning in 2008 was actually a case of delayed drowning, as the child had inhaled some water while swimming.

Either way, the takeaway message is to watch your child for any symptoms, such as persistent coughing, difficulty breathing, or decreased activity, if he briefly chokes in the water or has an episode where he almost chokes but doesn't actually inhale any water.
Examples:
A child may die of dry drowning after one to twenty-four hours after getting out of the water.

I learned something new today too, Thanks.
Glad the kid is doing better.

Just who doesn't get air lifted to Wichita?Seems like the staff at our regional medical center either won't or can't handle any thing too major.And they wanna do my heart surgery...nononono

My daughter calls Hays Medical Center - Hays Murder Center.

Mom contracted a very bad case of MRSA at HMC. She did not come in with it. Almost killed her. All they did was throw guesses at it and released her early. My guess is because if she died later, it would be tougher to pin on them. When it flared back up, thank God HMC ICU was full and they took her to Wichita. The care was %2000 better and she is still with us.

Go to Wichita, Denver, KC, anyplace else, blackie..

Wesley has some of the highest approval ratings in KS. I have heard some say they liked the heart treatment center at HMC. And some have done well with joint replacements at Hays. But I can reccommend Wesley for sure. Wesley got my sister up and going when HMC had written her off as hopeless.

Mom was at St. Josephs in Wichita, I had a surgery at Wesley in 1995 and they were horribly understaffed.

I been talking to folks at Galichia

I've never thought too highly of HMC, but they did recently save the hubby's life...

Blackie Kuhn wrote:

I been talking to folks at Galichia

That's who my father dr'd with. Emergency quad bypass in '86 and many follow-ups, still breathin.

My brother had a valve replaced at HMC a year ago and his surgery/ recovery/ and follow up care has gone just fine.

Good to hear that....I'm still goin to Wichita

Saved my Dad twice out here,....just sayin.

So far respiratory issues at HMC have been what I've seen the least experience in. They think banning smoking on the property is a cure all. Why can't the PC idiots understand completely taking smokes away from a seriously hooked patient hinders recovery? No, I don't expect someone on a ventilator to be allowed smokes, but there ought to be one friggin spot outdoors on all that ground where they could permit it for mobile patients.

When my sis was at Wesley she said they were well staffed and that anyone who came in the room no matter how high and mighty their title would perform lowly tasks for her instead of just calling in an aide. One of her respiratory specialists even emptied her bedpan. But that was in more recent years.

I know an 89 year old man who just had shoulder replacement in Hays and his son said he's doing ok. His son has had both hips replaced at HMC and had no complaints. And I know of several successful bypass surgeries done there. But I've also heard of several misdiagnosis issues, and infection problems.

Garden City has dissappointed me more than any so far. One of my family was basically allowed to starve, they lost her walker, and someone on hospital staff stole her necklace.

suzyr wrote:

Blackie Kuhn wrote:

I been talking to folks at Galichia

That's who my father dr'd with. Emergency quad bypass in '86 and many follow-ups, still breathin.

I know of a few people had bypasses at HMC, came out with flying colors.
I'm about to have surgery, gullbladder out at HMC I do not want no dam skin disease from there.