I agree with John's comments. So sorry to hear you are dealing with that. I
just wanted to say that the call is surely warranted.
Patrick
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dana Tierney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 1:40 AM
>To: CF-Community
>Subject: need for government intervention, or feel like a sucker....
>
>
><major vent with no relevance to other current threads, feel free to
>delete>
>
>Or is it? I'd be interested in hearing a take from all those
>let em starve
>minimalist conservatives out there. In ten words or less, I
>have two real
>live children at my house right now.
>
>So... here I am on deadline. The single mother up the street
>calls me up
>and wants my daughter to watch her kids. Nuh uh, I said, she
>just left with
>a friend to see a movie.
>
>I am feeling unsympathetic.... My daughter wound up spending all night
>there two nights ago because Amanda was too out of it.
>Apparently she went
>out (with my daughter watching her kids) and got so drunk she hurt her
>muscles dancing at some club. So OK, maybe I am being prissy;
>I don't do
>the club scene but she's only about 20, with three kids under
>5. And yet
>when I went to get my daughter the next day she was so out of
>it I called
>Poison Control to make sure she hadn't OD'ed. She roused
>enough to tell me
>she had taked three Percosets, a Xanax, three Darvocets and a
>couple of
>different kinds of musle relaxers. Welp, my daughter is
>scheduled to be
>doing something and I am not going to let her blow it off because this
>chick is too messed up...but I can't just walk away because hey, the
>youngest here is about one and a half and mom is just plain
>too messed up.
>I call around and find another of her friends who is willing
>to come over
>and deal with the situation. That was Sunday.
>
>Yesterday she called and said could her kids come over so she
>could clean
>her house. I said hell no, I'm still cleaning up from the
>last time they
>were over here.
>
>So today she has an appointment for an MRI. Ok, it really
>would be very
>hard to watch three kids that age while getting an MRI, so I
>say fine OK
>I'll watch the two older ones (aged 3 and 4), but not the
>baby. I need to
>get SOME work done here. And try to hurry.
>
>You guessed it. That was at 1pm... it's now after 11. She
>called me at 6
>and told me they were admitting her. For a torn ligament I
>said? Amanda,
>I've had a torn ligament. They don't admit you for that. She
>gave me to
>some guy who told me he was a doctor. He was drunk. Well, ok, he was
>slurring his words, and he didn't talk like a doctor. Feeling
>like a heel I
>asked him where she was. He names a hospital. Funny, I said, I
>just called
>there looking for her. They dont have a patient by that name.
>I dunno, he
>said. She is here on the third floor. Room 327. OK. I told him
>that if I
>could reach her there through the switchboard I would owe her a HUGE
>apology, got a name and phone number from him (totally
>different exchange
>from the actual number for the hospital) and tried the
>switchboard again.
>No patient by that name. Are you sure I said. She just called
>me, told me
>she was in room 327. Loooong pause on hold. Some one who identifies
>themself as an ER supervisor comes on and tells me there is no
>patient by
>that name in the hospital. Period. And all clinics are closed.
>While I am
>on this phone call she leaves me a voice message that her
>ex-husband (who
>she has previously told me smokes crank) is coming over to get
>the kids. Oh
>goodie.
>
>Daughter gets home at 8. I ask her to watch kids while I look
>into Amanda's
>whereabouts. Discuss this with neighbor. We are not sure if
>the kids are
>better off with a messed up mother who loves them, or an
>indifferent foster
>care system. I really don't want cops OR social workers at my
>house thank
>you very much. A totally different guy calls me and tells me he picked
>Amanda up at the hospital and she is passed out at his house.
>He says he is
>too drunk to drive. I thank him for calling. Who's taking care
>of the baby?
>I ask. I am he says. I love that baby. I have met him once and
>he seems
>like a pretty steady guy. I hesitate. I tell him Amanda has
>lied to me and
>I need to kick her ass, and the situation is way out of hand,
>and he better
>make sure that baby is OK. He says he will. I have his number
>on caller ID.
>
>OK so.. kids are safe for tonight. I call the friend who came
>over Sunday.
>I am not volunteering, he says. Put up with it for as long as
>you can then
>do what you have to do. He does not have a phone number for
>any of her
>relatives. Hubbie never showed up.
>
>I am thinking I am gonna have to make the call. We can't keep
>watching the
>kids; we are enabling. I hope there are relatives, but I have
>no way to
>reach them...and I can't see just letting her pick the kids up in the
>morning. Recent experience says the kids will NOT be ok.
>
></rant>
>
>Dana
>
>--
>Someone has to knuckle down and change history, and that
>someone is you -
>The Doctor
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