Pictures of sick child in hospital on FB?

[TheWomanWhoMisplacedHerHusband]

Close-up shots of very sick child sleeping/with drip in arms/trying to smile for camera with balloons people have given them with updates like 'thanks for the balloon they cheered her up a bit' taken by parents have come up on my feed (they don't know what's wrong with child yet).
Aibu to be a bit shocked at these?

Ad if you're finding it awful to see how poorly that child looks, how the hell do you think those poor parents feel?

(((MrsDV)))

MrsDeVere do not let this one poster make you leave. I want you to stay. You have more to add than this OP! You try to lift peoples loads and advise, not judge. We can't let the bastards drive us reasonable people out!

Porridge05 I understand your point but still don't think it's harmful or exploitative. Imvho we see far too little of children and their families in these situations. Which is why some people recoil when they do see images like this when it's daily life for so many children and their carers. I'm not saying the family in question did what they did to prove a point; they were lost in the fug of pain and fear that descends when a loved one is so painfully ill and were just doing whatever they could to get through.

Fucking hell!

I've sat with DD while she had lost consciousness and the doctors were arguing whether she would survive the journey to the city for treatment of whether to write her off. I didn't post on FB during the dead time because Facebook didn't exist then but I couldn't get enough photographs of her as well as crying and comforting.

In those days they tried to say that mobile phones interfered with equipment and were not allowed but I have plenty of stuff which I can't bear to look at but might well have been a record of her final hours.

I just read the op and skipped to the end and haven't read everything, I will now.

suffice it to say please please Mrs D and Expat don't let some poisonous crap make you leave.

you are both fantastically strong and influential and speaking personally you have both helped me. please don't leave xx

Axure - it isn't them who need to be ashamed. They shouldn't feel ashamed in any way.

OMFG axure

Bella, I sent my DD on a 60 mile journey to the bigger and better hospital, too ill to do the journey myself. I did not know whether she would arrive alive or dead. I was too ill to even take photographs, but if I had been well enough and had FB you can be sure I would have been posting my arse off! Just so all those who cared about us could have shared it with us. If I had had someone as nasty as the OP and I had found out about it on my 'friends' list, I would delete and block!

axure are you for real?

I hope you read that back to yourself axure and realise how fucking shameful that last post is.

Fucking hell, I really have heard it all now.

this thread is vile with some ignorant twats really showing their true colours.

FFS axure!

You would leave a Internet forum because I (someone you don't know from Adam) said I felt sorry for an ill child having their picture put on Fb?

I see I have really offended a lot of people here, it definitely wasn't intentional at all.

It's weird because I know some of the extended family of the child very well and they were all really upset with the pictures being up (they brought it up with me, so wasn't bitching). So some others do share the view that they were too quick to start taking pictures.

I am sorry for all those who went through such awful times with their dcs/relatives. If people read back my posts, I have expressed that I understand now why in certain circumstances pics will be taken, but in this instance I didn't agree.

So sorry you had to read these vile posts expat and MrsDV please don't leave.

I imagine its more likely because you called the parents selfish for daring to rally a bit of support from friends and family.

What I don't get is why you think your opinion on what parents do with their child should matter to anyone? Indeed who the fuck are you to decide whether they are attentive enough to their child?
Mind your own business, it has less than nothing to do with you.