Here?s a tragic yet simultaneously uplifting story out of Hickory about a mother who accidently backed her lawn mower over her five-year-old son.
He’s lost most of his intestines and has other injuries from which he is recovering. The uplifting parts are at least two: 1) he is now waiting for a ?bowel transplant,? which I?ve never heard of, glad to hear of, and confident would seem like a fantastic miracle to people just a generation ago; and 2) the mom is urging other parents to pay more close attention to where their children are while mowing, surely good advice.
The point is that no one is calling for a new round of government regulations or for suing the mower?s manufacturer. And as long as we don?t saddle our health care system with new mandates or taxes, the kind of innovation that will give this boy ?a normal life? will continue.
