Tag: foster care medication
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Has someone ever tried to kill you?
“I’m having the feeling that I want to kill you, Mom,” she said to me as I measured out grain for our sheep in the feed room. “But there aren’t any knives down here,” I said. She glanced around, her eyes landing upon the heavy tools she could bludgeon me with. We were alone on…
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Adoption Story (pt. 9)
A bit about the “team” at this point. This point being the first few months with M being back in our home. M’s social worker from the foster care agency had moved on to another job by the time M came home. We met with the new worker who M knew in passing from…
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Rescue From the Cuckoo’s Nest (pt. 8)
“Thorby had two choices. Be adopted quietly or make a fuss and be adopted anyhow” Robert A. Heinlein, Citizen of the Galaxy The lead social worker on her case at Saint —— facility mentioned that while reading M’s extensive medical records she had to pause often. The trauma described seemed too insurmountable. She was in awe…
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Rescue From the Cuckoo’s Nest (pt. 5)
Technically we were off the hook. The doctor at the small general hospital immediately understood that M was overmedicated and agreed that the best thing to do was to send her back to the mental health facility around thirty minutes from our house to have her medications reevaluated. Yet … we knew what M didn’t…
Author Adrienne Morris 