A man has received a heavy backlash online after failing to leave work to help his wife while their eldest child was in the hospital. The unnamed wife explained all in a post on netmums, sharing how their child had an unexpected asthma attack and they had to call an ambulance to take the child to the hospital.
At this point, the wife called her husband and said he should come home from work to help her with the ill toddler and their newborn baby. However, he resfued to leave his work. She said: "I called my husband, who is an optician, and said you need to come home I can't do this on my own with the baby and the older one. He was like no. He said he can't leave his work."
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"He said I should ask my mum for help. I was like your son is in trouble and we need you. But nope," she continued
"We went to A&E in the ambulance. I sat in the waiting room for 6 hours juggling the baby and toddler. My mum came for the first three hours and then I did three alone."
Later in the evening at 6pm, her husband eventually showed up after work and stayed with the three-year-old in hospital while the mum went back home with the newborn baby.
"I'm just so mad. I don't know if I'm now mad that my little boy is ill and waiting 8.5 hours in hospital to be seen or because my husband has been ridiculous not coming to help," she continued.
She added that her husband has never really taken a day off and has a lovely boss so she felt it was unreasonable that he did not come to help when their child was in the hospital.
The husband has received a lot of criticism online with many unable to see why he did not just leave work to go and help his wife and children. -others suggested that the woman leave him, for what he had done.
One person commented: "Yeah that's awful any parent would leave work then and there to be there for the child who is poorly and he didn't know he wasn't urgent as that's why waiting so long to be seen but when you rang anything could of happened to the child and he doesn't even leave to come then and there."
While another stated: "I would leave him, if I can't count on him why would I be with him may as well go it alone. The lack of concern for our child would scare and repulse me."
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