I don't know about that. She wasn't forced into doing this. I'm sure she had to sign waivers up the ying yang--I know waivers are always lawsuit-proof---but she was an adult. She had to drink gallons of water to do this---no doubt her body was giving her signals to stopped consuming it.Pepper said:That poor woman's family will soon own that radio station! I don't know why these endurance and gluttony contests are allowed to continue.
Agreed!julianne said:I don't know about that. She wasn't forced into doing this. I'm sure she had to sign waivers up the ying yang--I know waivers are always lawsuit-proof---but she was an adult. She had to drink gallons of water to do this---no doubt her body was giving her signals to stopped consuming it.
While I think it is irresponsible for the radio station to do this, the irresponsibility lies more on her shoulders I think.
Hello Elphaba. I am interested in exactly how the excess water intake affected you. You said it made you very, very sick. Can you describe the symptoms that you experienced?Elphaba said:Over consumption of water can be dangerous... during my battle with severe anemia 8 years ago, I started craving ice... the dr called this craving "pica". I consumed so much ice and water that I was rapidly depleting my body of the nutrition it needed to fight the anemia issue. It made me very very sick...
Elphaba said:Over consumption of water can be dangerous... during my battle with severe anemia 8 years ago, I started craving ice... the dr called this craving "pica". I consumed so much ice and water that I was rapidly depleting my body of the nutrition it needed to fight the anemia issue. It made me very very sick...
teonspaleprincess said:I remember reading about a baby that had died from water intoxication once, that was the first I had ever heard of it. Such a sad end to a promising life.
WOW. Incredibly sad. First of all, why would she need to be punished in the first place? Why did she have to take her siblings drink in order to drink something? Why didn't they have anything available to her to drink on her own?georgiagirl said:here it is
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20051006/ai_n15673682
PROVO -- For the second day in a row, a medical expert testified in 4th District Court that a 4-year-old child did not die because her parents forced her to drink too much water.
A witness for the defense, pathologist J. Wallace Graham, said Wednesday it would be nearly impossible for Richard and Jennete Killpack to force their adopted daughter to drink water without causing bruising around her mouth.
"There was no sign of trauma around her mouth," he said.
The Killpacks are on trial for child-abuse homicide, a second- degree felony. Prosecutors say on June 9, 2002 Jennete Killpack put Cassandra on a bar stool in their Springville home, tied her hands behind her back and forced her to drink about a gallon of water as a punishment for taking a sibling's drink.
The Killpacks say they came up with the water-discipline method after meeting with therapists and reading about Reactive Attachment Disorder, a mental illness in which adopted children have difficulty bonding with their adoptive parents.