It’s every parent’s worst nightmare to see their child in danger or in pain, which is why one horrified UK mom is warning others of the one thing to do to keep their child safe in their home.
42-year-old mom Karen Shelley was home watching her son Riley play with her 1-year-old son, Louis, when she noticed her playful 2-year-old climb up onto a windowsill. “He was sitting on the windowsill as I went out into the kitchen. I was only out there a little while when I noticed he had stood up,” Shelley remembers.
“I told him to get down as it was dangerous, but as he went to step down on to the settee, he grabbed the blind cord that was hanging down behind the curtain.” However, as he jumped down, the cord accidentally wrapped around his neck and pulled him back up so he was hanging in mid air.
“It was literally a few seconds but the color went out of his face immediately and his eyes were bulging,” said Shelley, who collapsed when she saw Riley’s limp body. “It’s just something you never want to see – you’re child just hanging there lifeless. It was awful. I honestly thought he had died.” Shelley rushed Riley to the hospital where doctors thankfully determined that he had not been seriously injured.
Now, Shelley is sharing the nightmare incident to warn parents about how dangerous loose blind cords are. “If something like this could happen while he was being supervised, it’s scary to think of what could happen to a child when they’re in their bedrooms or playing alone… If anyone has cords hanging and has children please just cut it…so what if it don’t look nice!! You don’t want to see what I did.”
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Mom Warns Parents After Toddler Was Almost Choked By A Blind Cord is an article from: LifeDaily