The poverty and dysfunction in this family is an illness on all of them. Your answer shows compassion EV in a situation where it is difficult to find any. -Cindy
How to protect the innocent from the ignorance or cruelty from those who have power over them? There really is no way:(
I would think, if the child was unable to stand, eat, drink and was fuzzy mentally, that would be enough to signal the parents that something is very wrong, and they needed help for her.
But, I’m also the Mom of a 12 year old who laid in bed for about a 12 hour period, she was testing BG, but was vomiting, and feeling pretty bad. She wasn’t getting any better, so I grabbed her meter, and scrolled through the history, then checked pump history, I then realized she was lying about numbers and correction boluses for at least the past day.
We did bring her to hospital, she wasn’t in DKA, but headed that way and earned an overnight to “get BG’s down”.
Was I neglectful? Or just a busy Mom that didn’t think her daughter would fib about something so important? Before I saw the meter and pump history, I thought maybe it was a touch of stomache bug or flu . . . Lots of kids were out with stomache issues that week, it was what I was expecting.
I was lucky, I know bettter now, and watch her a bit closer. I’m glad I didn’t have to decide the fate of these parents, it could have been me if I didn’t happen to notice the fruity smell that her breathe had that made me check her meter. . . They definitely should have sought help earlier, but I don’t know what their circumstances were. Such a sad, sad story. . .