Teen dies after eating popular dessert at high school, lawsuit says
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According to the lawsuit, 17-year-old Kayleen Brown, an Atlantic Coast High School senior, attended a school meeting on campus in July 2023 that included food.

Her father is suing.

She has a nut allergy and ate baklava? Because someone told her it didn’t have nuts in it? IT’S MADE OF NUTS!!! Did she eat it with her eyes closed?

She didn’t have an epi pen? She didn’t go to the school nurse? Checked out of school and took a walk instead? What? What?

I don’t have allergies, so someone please help me make sense of this. How could a seventeen year old with nut allergies eat baklava and head to CVS for some Benadryl afterwards?

Isn’t that an unusually bad series of decisions? Darwin Award level? I mean, if it wasn’t this, she might have died trying to dry her hair in the microwave.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      6 days ago

      If you call 911, and get in the ambulance, congrats, you are now billed $1k to $3k depending on where you are.

      If you can make it to a drug store and buy benadryll, you’re out maybe $30 bucks.

      Something like 60% of Americans cannot afford a $1000 emergency expense.

        • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          6 days ago

          Welcome to the risk-reward calculation that over half of America has to make unexpectedly, without warning, while in extreme pain.

          She was 17.

          Fuck you.

            • MrMeowMeow@mander.xyzEnglish
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              6 days ago

              I have a life-threatening shellfish allergy and only have epipens that expired in 2016 due to cost, so ymmv ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

              • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
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                6 days ago

                and if you had an emergency nowhere near your epis, you’d just go ahead and risk death just in case there was a big bill comin’ your way?

                thats the decision everyone is glossin over here… death or bill

                • Nougat@fedia.io
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                  6 days ago

                  Humans are terrible at estimating risk. 17 year old humans generally more so.

                • MrMeowMeow@mander.xyzEnglish
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                  6 days ago

                  I think that under reacting to situations like this is human nature. As an adult, I would definitely call 911 and deal with the repercussions after. As a child and teenager, my parents definitely just made me shotgun Benadryl and hopes for the best. I think judging a 17 year old based off of what most sober and rational adults would do isn’t fair.