Child Injured at Daycare
Location: Louisiana
My child attends a summer care program at a small daycare. On Monday I received a frantic call to come get my child because there is a rock in his ear. Yes - a rock. I was told another child “spit a rock into his ear”. The story my 8 year old says is he was laying on the ground and the boy walked up and pretended to play telephone and spit a rock into his ear.
5 hour ER visit later, the rock is stuck to his ear drum. We are referred to an ENT. The ENT cannot remove it without surgery. Now - we have surgery Thursday.
I have contacted the daycare to help pay for the medical expenses. I have missed 3 days of work. I’m out an ER co pay, an ENT visit, and next the cost of surgery. If the daycare refuses to pay, do I have a leg to stand on?
Other facts:
• no incident report was provided to me at any time.
• the facility has cameras, the daycare manager states she didn’t see the incident. I asked her to look again. I never heard back.