5-Year-Old Notices Mom Collapsing So She FaceTimes Her Dad, And People Are Saying The Family Would Be Broke If It Were The US
When we hear the words ‘iPad’ and ‘child’ in the same sentence, we assume it’s going to be another tale of how too much screen time is harmful to the development of kids. However, not this time. This time, both were instrumental in saving a life.
When 5-year-old Priya Galvin’s mom Mary collapsed at home from a catastrophic stroke, the girl did the only thing she could think of. She grabbed the family iPad and FaceTimed her dad, telling him that her mom wasn’t feeling well. Mary was rushed to Cork University Hospital, Ireland, where the staff there saved her life by performing a thrombectomy. Now, the entire family’s back at home and Mary is well.
When CUH’s Consultant geriatrician and the clinical lead for stroke services Liam Healy shared this story on Twitter, people praised the hospital staff and 5-year-old Priya. Meanwhile, others expressed their relief that the situation occurred in Ireland and not, for example, the United States; otherwise, the family would have hardly been able to cover their medical expenses.
More info: Twitter (Liam Healy) | cuh.hse.ie (Cork University Hospital)
Dr. Liam Healy shared the story of how 5-year-old Priya helped save her mother’s life when she had a stroke
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According to Dr. Healy, CUH has “the busiest inpatient stroke service in Ireland.” He also mentioned that this was just one of two hospitals in the entire country that offers procedures like thrombectomies. In case you were wondering, a thrombectomy involves a specialist team removing the clot.
“We work closely with different services within the hospital to figure out why someone has had a stroke, how we can minimize the damage caused by the stroke, and how we can initiate a patient’s rehabilitation,” he said.
There are several main signs that you might be having a stroke. Including sudden numbness or weakness in the face, arm, or leg. Especially on one side of the body. Another sign is sudden confusion, trouble speaking, or difficulty understanding speech. As is sudden trouble seeing in one or both eyes. You might also be having a stroke if you have trouble walking, feel dizzy, suddenly lose your balance and lack coordination. The final sign of having a stroke is a severe headache with no known cause.
According to one study that looked at over 97,000 hospitalizations in the US, the cost of hospitalization for stroke patients depends on the type of stroke. The researchers found that, on average, ischemic strokes cost patients 62,637 dollars, hemorrhagic strokes cost 16,331 dollars, while other types of stroke cost 48,208.
People praised Priya and the doctors for their quick responses
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Some people drew attention to the fact how difficult things would have been for the family if they were living in the US, instead of Ireland
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I noticed one of the comments included was about "socialist Europe" Europe ISN'T socialist, Ireland certainly not. There ARE some aspects of medical care you have to pay for to in Ireland. Where I am (Scotland) everything is free (at the point of use - you pay insurance to the government) no hospital bill, no prescription charges, free dental checks and eye exams. If you're elderly or poor dental work and glasses are free too. This ISN'T socialism, it's just taking care of your own. Why would you choose a system where an illness could bankrupt you? Yet people are being fooled into doing just that..
Socialism and Communism are not the same thing and neither are the same as Totalitarianism.
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What a smart girl! She did what she knew how to do! No matter how old a child is, I think they should be taught to use some type of knowing how to get ahold of someone important. Be it knowing how to dial 911 or call someone with a landline or cell phone. She knew how to FaceTime and that's what she did.
My brother had 2 strokes the week before Christmas and died on Christmas Eve, he was actually in a hospital for kidney dialysis and wasn't treated nearly quickly enough. Happy this story turned out so well, what a smart girl!
This is just such a spectacular recovery. We're lucky to have these people around to help us.
This is absolutely amazing. My grandmother had a stroke when I was 2 years old and spent the last 7 years of her life in a nursing home unable to speak, walk, or feed herself. When she died she was only 49 years old. The health care system in America is the worst and I am saying this as an American citizen with lots of health issues.
Actually, I think she would be dead or parilized for life in the states. Our healthcare is not only expensive but not worth the $$$ you pay for it.
Meanwhile retards in the usa hur dur socialism is bad mmmkay cause I dumb me like getting f****d by monopolies and some of the worst banks in the world Usa she'd likely be dead and the father would be declaring bankruptcy from the hospital bills
More people in the US want better healthcare systems than people think. It's just the rich people in power who yell loudly over the rest of us who are all "socialism bad."
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They're right. In the US, that would have led to medical bills that could easily have made this family homeless - since medical bills are a major cause of children being homeless in the US. No matter what kind of insurance they had - if the hospital was out of network, she would have been sent to another one, possibly miles away, and would have died. ...///... This is normal in the US.
As a nurse in the UK I am very proud of how hard we all work on behalf of our patients. Now can we stop being called angel, being told our jobs a vocation/calling and actually be paid a proper living wage so we can pay our bills and not have to use food banks. Side note, 90% of nurses are women
Yep, here in the US, they would have shaken the entire family upside down and made sure they got every penny, then they would have taken their house and added it to their collection. It's amazing how many houses that hospitals own after bankrupting so many people. It would be so simple to fix our healthcare system. Simply stop giving lawmakers gold star health insurance that comes with the job and make them fend for themselves and their families. Watch how quickly the laws change.
The title is a troll. In the USA she would have likely hit her deductible at $2k and max out of pocket at $5k, all of which would be paid out of an HSA account.
WTF is a deductible? How on earth can you think its acceptable to be $5k out of pocket, or out of pocket AT ALL, just for having the misfortune of being ill?
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I am chronically I'll in the us we have had the discussion that it would be best for my family if I did not make it. We pay 6k deductable before insurance lifts a finger than85% of whatever the hospital charges. Hint for this story mid 6figures to millions depending on the hospital
Did you see the post a couple days back on Boredpanda about asking insurance to itemize the bill? That might help you reduce costs.
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It much depends what sort of "screen time" children are exposed to and what parents are teaching them. And yes, there are highly professional health care workers in the world as well, not just in the USA.
In my country if that happened to me, I'd be dead, beacuse I would wait for the ambulance over half an hour. So yeah.
Phenomenal care by the team in Ireland, alerted by clever little Priya. What a lovely story!
That's some excellent medical care. I don't think Pittsburgh could have done it.
I would really like to know how she tore that artery. I know it can happen just like that, but that's rather rare, especially at this age.
Many women get blood clots right after giving birth. It said her other baby was a few weeks old.
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In my opinion, she had an enormous luck to be close to CUH, because as I understoood, it is one of rare centers that performs such stroke thrombectomies, so in some other countries chances are she wouldn't make it at all. So that makes debt stories redundant, better broke and alive than without bill but dead or with severe disabilities.
I live in Utah. About nine miles away from my home is the University of Utah Jarvic Department of Cardiac Medicine. As well as being the place the first artificial heart was created, it is also the university where the stroke surgery in the article was invented. No, the United States isn't a bad place to go for medicine. What nobody notes is that there are ample charities and after-the-fact insurance companies throughout the country. If you cannot afford insurance, they will still operate on you.
Why cant we just be happy for this family? Why does the author of this story have to go political? I could do that too. "5-Year-Old Notices Mom Collapsing So She FaceTimes Her Dad, And People Are Saying The Family Would Be Dead if this was in Venezuela". Not hard to take a happy story and twist it for your own sick pleasure.
Did it ever occur to you that people can feel two things at once? That they can be happy for her family, and yet realize the outcome would have been way worse in a different place that a lot of the readers are from. People who b***h about things getting political are typically people who have the privilege of politics not really causing them harm. It's easy to want to stop hearing about the problems a system causes others as long as it's not bothering you. The people who get pissed about politics and how our system is failing? Those are the people who either face these realities every day, or are of strong enough character to realize that other people and their suffering matters too, and that keeping quiet about those injustices is basically the same as being complicit.
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Ah, and private companies are run by philanthropists, aren't they?
Load More Replies... We DON'T have the "best" medical care. I've lived here for 20 years and trust me, this system sucks. It doesn't even compare to the rest of the world. ...//... The US has the highest infant and maternal death rates in the industrialized world. That is something to be embarrassed about.
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Excuse you? Do you have children? Clearly you either don't oe have them and are not involved in their upbringing. This kiddo was taught to use FaceTime. Pretty sure anyone older than the ripe age of 10 these days didn't know how to do that when they were that age. And figuring out a child's description on the phone by a stranger takes time. Dad understood instantly. The delay in receiving care was minimal if not faster.
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You pay an insurance company monthly for your policy? Then you are already covering other people. By having state run health care the risk is spread over the largest number possible within a defined area (state). It's literally exactly the same principle, except there isn't a corporation milking profits, there isn't racketeering between competing companies, there isn't a billing admin overhead. I don't get your blinkered, and indeed selfish, attitude. You are literally already paying for someone else to get medical care. It's f*****g nuts that you're so brainwashed to think it's a) any different, and b) acceptable.
Load More Replies... I noticed one of the comments included was about "socialist Europe" Europe ISN'T socialist, Ireland certainly not. There ARE some aspects of medical care you have to pay for to in Ireland. Where I am (Scotland) everything is free (at the point of use - you pay insurance to the government) no hospital bill, no prescription charges, free dental checks and eye exams. If you're elderly or poor dental work and glasses are free too. This ISN'T socialism, it's just taking care of your own. Why would you choose a system where an illness could bankrupt you? Yet people are being fooled into doing just that..
Socialism and Communism are not the same thing and neither are the same as Totalitarianism.
Load More Replies... What a smart girl! She did what she knew how to do! No matter how old a child is, I think they should be taught to use some type of knowing how to get ahold of someone important. Be it knowing how to dial 911 or call someone with a landline or cell phone. She knew how to FaceTime and that's what she did.
My brother had 2 strokes the week before Christmas and died on Christmas Eve, he was actually in a hospital for kidney dialysis and wasn't treated nearly quickly enough. Happy this story turned out so well, what a smart girl!
This is just such a spectacular recovery. We're lucky to have these people around to help us.
This is absolutely amazing. My grandmother had a stroke when I was 2 years old and spent the last 7 years of her life in a nursing home unable to speak, walk, or feed herself. When she died she was only 49 years old. The health care system in America is the worst and I am saying this as an American citizen with lots of health issues.
Actually, I think she would be dead or parilized for life in the states. Our healthcare is not only expensive but not worth the $$$ you pay for it.
Meanwhile retards in the usa hur dur socialism is bad mmmkay cause I dumb me like getting f****d by monopolies and some of the worst banks in the world Usa she'd likely be dead and the father would be declaring bankruptcy from the hospital bills
More people in the US want better healthcare systems than people think. It's just the rich people in power who yell loudly over the rest of us who are all "socialism bad."
Load More Replies... They're right. In the US, that would have led to medical bills that could easily have made this family homeless - since medical bills are a major cause of children being homeless in the US. No matter what kind of insurance they had - if the hospital was out of network, she would have been sent to another one, possibly miles away, and would have died. ...///... This is normal in the US.
As a nurse in the UK I am very proud of how hard we all work on behalf of our patients. Now can we stop being called angel, being told our jobs a vocation/calling and actually be paid a proper living wage so we can pay our bills and not have to use food banks. Side note, 90% of nurses are women
Yep, here in the US, they would have shaken the entire family upside down and made sure they got every penny, then they would have taken their house and added it to their collection. It's amazing how many houses that hospitals own after bankrupting so many people. It would be so simple to fix our healthcare system. Simply stop giving lawmakers gold star health insurance that comes with the job and make them fend for themselves and their families. Watch how quickly the laws change.
The title is a troll. In the USA she would have likely hit her deductible at $2k and max out of pocket at $5k, all of which would be paid out of an HSA account.
WTF is a deductible? How on earth can you think its acceptable to be $5k out of pocket, or out of pocket AT ALL, just for having the misfortune of being ill?
Load More Replies... I am chronically I'll in the us we have had the discussion that it would be best for my family if I did not make it. We pay 6k deductable before insurance lifts a finger than85% of whatever the hospital charges. Hint for this story mid 6figures to millions depending on the hospital
Did you see the post a couple days back on Boredpanda about asking insurance to itemize the bill? That might help you reduce costs.
Load More Replies... It much depends what sort of "screen time" children are exposed to and what parents are teaching them. And yes, there are highly professional health care workers in the world as well, not just in the USA.
In my country if that happened to me, I'd be dead, beacuse I would wait for the ambulance over half an hour. So yeah.
Phenomenal care by the team in Ireland, alerted by clever little Priya. What a lovely story!
That's some excellent medical care. I don't think Pittsburgh could have done it.
I would really like to know how she tore that artery. I know it can happen just like that, but that's rather rare, especially at this age.
Many women get blood clots right after giving birth. It said her other baby was a few weeks old.
Load More Replies... In my opinion, she had an enormous luck to be close to CUH, because as I understoood, it is one of rare centers that performs such stroke thrombectomies, so in some other countries chances are she wouldn't make it at all. So that makes debt stories redundant, better broke and alive than without bill but dead or with severe disabilities.
I live in Utah. About nine miles away from my home is the University of Utah Jarvic Department of Cardiac Medicine. As well as being the place the first artificial heart was created, it is also the university where the stroke surgery in the article was invented. No, the United States isn't a bad place to go for medicine. What nobody notes is that there are ample charities and after-the-fact insurance companies throughout the country. If you cannot afford insurance, they will still operate on you.
Why cant we just be happy for this family? Why does the author of this story have to go political? I could do that too. "5-Year-Old Notices Mom Collapsing So She FaceTimes Her Dad, And People Are Saying The Family Would Be Dead if this was in Venezuela". Not hard to take a happy story and twist it for your own sick pleasure.
Did it ever occur to you that people can feel two things at once? That they can be happy for her family, and yet realize the outcome would have been way worse in a different place that a lot of the readers are from. People who b***h about things getting political are typically people who have the privilege of politics not really causing them harm. It's easy to want to stop hearing about the problems a system causes others as long as it's not bothering you. The people who get pissed about politics and how our system is failing? Those are the people who either face these realities every day, or are of strong enough character to realize that other people and their suffering matters too, and that keeping quiet about those injustices is basically the same as being complicit.
Load More Replies... Ah, and private companies are run by philanthropists, aren't they?
Load More Replies... We DON'T have the "best" medical care. I've lived here for 20 years and trust me, this system sucks. It doesn't even compare to the rest of the world. ...//... The US has the highest infant and maternal death rates in the industrialized world. That is something to be embarrassed about.
Load More Replies... Excuse you? Do you have children? Clearly you either don't oe have them and are not involved in their upbringing. This kiddo was taught to use FaceTime. Pretty sure anyone older than the ripe age of 10 these days didn't know how to do that when they were that age. And figuring out a child's description on the phone by a stranger takes time. Dad understood instantly. The delay in receiving care was minimal if not faster.
Load More Replies... You pay an insurance company monthly for your policy? Then you are already covering other people. By having state run health care the risk is spread over the largest number possible within a defined area (state). It's literally exactly the same principle, except there isn't a corporation milking profits, there isn't racketeering between competing companies, there isn't a billing admin overhead. I don't get your blinkered, and indeed selfish, attitude. You are literally already paying for someone else to get medical care. It's f*****g nuts that you're so brainwashed to think it's a) any different, and b) acceptable.
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