Thursday, October 8, 1998BY SUE MacDONALD
The Cincinnati Enquirer
What happened to some of the children treated in the Children's Hospital Emergency Department on that early June weekend when 48 Hours let the cameras roll?
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Dr. Robert Shapiro talks with Adam Dalton.
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Adam Dalton, 12, a seventh-grader at Amelia Middle School, was burned over 40 percent of his body while igniting leaves with paint on June 6. He spent five weeks at Shriners Hospital and returned to school in August. (His injuries were written about in June 9 and July 10 editions of the Enquirer).
His appearance on the 48 Hours segment is some of the most difficult viewing.
"He doesn't want to watch," says his mother, Kim, of Amelia. "He doesn't remember much about that day anyway. We told him we'll watch it and tape it for him, so that it's here if he ever wants to. "
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Brooke Steiner and her mom Kim on the family farm.
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Brooke Steiner, 15, of Mason walks the stairs of Middletown's Fenwick High School without crutches. When her pelvis was crushed by a tractor in an accident at the family's farm, doctors were concerned about serious internal injuries from the broken hip and three bone fractures. But 10 days later she was home. Just after Labor Day, the crutches were gone.
"I'm doing well in school and pretty much back to normal," says Brooke, a freshman. "Mostly I'm trying to get my strength back."
She underwent two surgeries at Children's and has four plates and two pins in her hip - pelvis.
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Pam and David Meisner with their six kids (clockwise from bottom): Ivan 4 months, Nathan 3, Meryl 8, Louis 5, Herbert 1, and Harry 6.
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The Meisner family of Wyoming represented the show's case of torn loyalties. About 10 p.m. that Saturday night, David and Pam Meisner checked into Good Samaritan Hospital for the birth of their sixth child.
"David got a page from the baby-sitter as we were walking down the hall from Admitting," Mrs. Meisner recalls. Seems then-18-month-old Herbert needed stitches above his left eye from a close encounter with a coffee table. His father left to take Herbert to Children's while Pam stayed at Good Sam -- with one proviso: "I told David, you've got to bring Herbert back here. I don't care if I'm pushing. I just need to make sure he's OK."
Several hours later, Herbert, now 22 months, cuddled in his mom's arms in the labor-delivery room. At 8:10 a.m., brother Ivan was born. None of the Meisners has been back to Children's emergency department since.
Children's Hospital stays busy
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