Best healthcare system in the world, please God work miracles today for this child.
South Dakota is in America not Singapore.
That aside... I'm shocked he's going to play. If my two year old son was in the hospital and wasn't going to make it. I don't think I'd be able to walk for a week, let alone play football.
Good post. Chilling with my 17 month old right now, I could not function enough to get the mail.
It might be a mistake to equate this with our own children. There's a difference between a baby you hold and care for every day, and one that you've only seen three or four times in your life, and didn't even know about until well after the fact. They really aren't equivalent, and some of the posts in here are troubling in the implications. I love my cousin that I haven't seen but twice in the last 30 years, but as upset as I'd be, I wouldn't miss work over it. I love my nieces that I see two or three times a year, but if this happened I might take a few days off to console my sister, but I'd be doing it more for her and my family than for myself.
If this child is one AP barely knew/saw, and he isn't close to the people who were in the child's life every day, then it's really not very surprising that he would choose not to miss this weekends game...I know I probably wouldn't in his place. All those with children in here....losing your child would NOT BE EQUIVALENT.