When Julia Vavatsikos took her 3-year-old son to the doctor she thought they would fix his eye, which had been scratched by the family cat, but that's not quite what happened.
Instead of the doctor handling the situation, a receptionist glued the boy's eye shut.
"I thought I was going to faint. I got emotional, I got scared. I was angry. I didn't know what to do. My son was screaming he was trying to open his eye … it was very, very, scary," Julia Vavatsikos told Go Public.
Dr. Jean Therrien was the only doctor working at the Quebec clinic in Canada.
"The doctor was holding my son and kind of holding his eye and then the co-worker applied glue. He kind of missed and he glued my son's eye shut."
The receptionist was not a nurse or a medical student; in fact, he had no medical training at all.
"He was trying to open my son's eye with water and his fingers, he was even swearing at that point. I've never met any doctors that swear. At that point, I knew something was really wrong," Vavatsikos said.
She took her son to an emergency room, where a nurse informed her that medical glue is rarely used because things like this can happen. An ophthalmologist was called in and the boy's eyelashes had to be cut off, then the eyelid carefully opened.
This isn't the first time parents trusted a medical professional that betrayed them: Recently, parents protested the work of an "evil dentist" who destroyed their children's teeth instead of fixing them.
While the doctor isn't being punished, we're just glad that the boy is OK. However, Vavatsikos is warning others about putting their children in the hands of a stranger, even if he is a doctor.
"I don't want any other kid, adult, baby to go through that — to go through what my son went through. He was absolutely traumatized," she said.
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