Things got real.
A Utah realtor is warning parents to think twice before bringing their children to open houses — sharing a gut-rending story that ended up with a little girl being airlifted to a hospital.
Karina VanOrman shared a story on TikTok about one couple that insisted on bringing their three kiddos on each house tour.
“The kids would be running through the home, looking at it,” VanOrman said in a TikTok that has over 66,000 views. “As all kids do. Kids are bored looking at houses. The parents are looking at all the details… and the kids are, like, zooming through the house in two seconds.”
On one such occasion, on a tour of a home that was still under construction in South Ogden, Utah, the couple’s 6-year-old daughter got so riled up that it almost resulted in her death.
“The family had gotten there early and they had already been looking around in the yard and they were all really excited,” said VanOrman.
“I saw their six-year-old daughter go running from the front of the house, as fast as she could, to go running out to the backyard. And I could see that she did not realize that the sliding glass door was closed,” VanOrman says, and then gulps. “I yelled, ‘Stop!’ But before she could stop herself, she ran straight through that glass door.”
The glass pane was first installed in the ‘70s, according to the house maven, meaning the glass did not shatter but formed into large shards when broken.
family rushed to help their bloody daughter. Karinaâs Utah Homes, Karina VanOrman; Davis County Utah Real Estate Advisor , /Facebook
“And so she ran through that glass door and as she turned around there was a huge shard of glass just right in her abdomen,” VanOrman recalls.
VanOrman said she called for the girl to not touch the glass, but the girl, in a complete panic, pulled the shard out of her belly. In doing so she cut her hands severely. The little kid even had head wounds from the busted door.
The quick-thinking mansion monger grabbed a blanket from her car to apply pressure on the stomach wound as the parents — who were in shock — called for an ambulance.
EMTs quickly realized that the little girl’s wounds were serious enough to require a trip to Salt Lake City’s Children’s Hospital.
“I just needed to be strong in that situation. And I needed to be the one not in shock,” VanOrman reflects.
The stetson-wearing real estate veteran said that after the ordeal she sat in her car and she “balled.”
The 6-year-old girl miraculously survived with the glass barely missing several different critical parts of her body.
Now, VanOrman suggests that her clients not bring their young kids on any house tour.
“It was a hard lesson that I learned,” she concludes.
VanOrman says she eventually found the family a home that was not a fixer-upper and they still live there to this day.