To the editor:

I am writing in regard to the article in the Lawrence Journal World on Jan. 28 about a car accident: “Post-cupcake tooth check puts driver in hospital.” This happened to be my mother and I feel it was very disrespectful and inconsiderate to the entire family of Eva Nichols when the writer happened to add his two cents’ worth: “A sweet false tooth can be just as troublesome as a real tooth. Just ask a Pomona woman.”

I think the writer took full advantage of making a big joke out of this just because it involved a cupcake and false teeth. They thought it would make a hilarious joke for people to laugh at when they read it. That is downright hateful for someone to do this when they don’t even know the outcome of my mother’s accident.

It is an embarrassment to the whole family, and thank God my mother was at KU Med Center or she probably would have seen this article and been in tears. For everyone who knows my mother and read that article, she is doing much better but not before going through a lot of lying flat on her back not able to move because of head, neck and back injuries along with a broken left ankle, and not eating for four days.

Thankfully she is recovering. I just wish that the Journal-World had more respect for people they don’t even know. I have tried to get them to reprint the accident article and to leave out the horrible paragraph that this writer put in it, but I guess they feel they don’t owe it to our family. That’s fine because now everyone should know the real story.

Cheryl L. Sloan,

Lawrence