Kitty Hawk – EMS was activated this past Wednesday to an area restaurant in response to a child suffering a panic attack due to soda withdraw. The child, 8, had been on vacation, for the first time to the Outer Banks, from Ohio. Thanks to a quick injection of Fructocan the child’s life was saved.
“Thank god we had those Fructocan injectables on hand. I thought I was going to have to perform an onsite Pepsiotomy,” said EMS Paramedic, Sandra White, “If it had been another ten minutes he would have been a goner. According to the parents it had been eight entire minutes since his soda was refilled. It’s seeing stuff like this on the job that make it hard to sleep at night.”
The server responsible for neglecting the child’s soda was immediately taken into custody for negligence, and is being held in lieu of a $100,000 bond.
The wait staff manager, Becki Saunders, had a few thoughts on the matter, “I get it, we have all been there, sometimes the kids just don’t stop drinking the soda. You fill it up, and they drink it down again. You are busy, they are running you, part of you starts to think you are doing them a favor if you don’t fill it up. You have to shake those thoughts out of your head and do your job. What if doctors or the police or the president just stopped doing their job. That is how society falls apart. It’s sad to see a good server break like this.”
This is the third time this Summer the EMS has had to respond to soda related incident at a restaurant. Calls have been made by politicians and local leaders to better educated our service industry to how important proper hydration is for children of parents who let them drink soda.
The child’s parents didn’t want to comment, but they have set up a GoFundMe to help cover the costs of their son’s recovery.
I a cold is that addicted to sofa pop, the parents should carry some at all times to prevent this happening again. I don’t see how the waitress is held accountable for this. No one one would think, OMG I better get sofa pop to that kid before he dies, literally!!!