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Old Oct 03, 2002, 12:25 PM
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My son is 19 he lives with us because he is going to college. He can't drive, so I drive him to school. We pay for all his expenses. I fix his meals and do his laundry. His doctor wanted him to take a urine test for a new medication he was going to be put on. He refused. He got angry with me and refused to go to college if I did not call his doctor. He didn't go to school for two days. I have told him he cannot live here if he does not go to school. He will have to get a job and move out. I am afraid I might have to call the cops to come and get him. I don't want that, but he is making himself impossible to live with. I don't like having to give in to his demands so that he will go to school. The school will not let him attend if he does not live at home or on campus. He says he will not live on campus unless we pay for the high priced dorm rooms. He calls me crazy and unstable. I am just trying to stick to my guns and not give in to his blackmail and manipulation. Should I have to? He wrote a paper on urine and I just do not know what to think of it. Should I be worried. This is the urine essay.
1. Urine is dusgusting. You cannot argue otherwise. Thus, Urine Tests, by nature, are disgusting.
2.I have dignity and will not lower myself to that level.
3. Urine tests are profane, and I have the courage to resist.
4. There are alternative ways to test anything that can be tested through urine.
a. If I am incorrect it should be noted that that the liver was the only organ that was in danger of being damaged, and the test for this is a blood test.
5. Such a test invades my right to privacy. Thus any such test would go against my personal beliefs.
6. In refusing this test I hope that I am an inspriration to others, and that eventually the barbaric practice may stop.
7. I refuse, because I believe that any man, corporation, government or society which deems the pastime of playing with pee is not only proper, but is somehow for the betterment of society, is demonstrating a sickness to which I will become no enabaling co-conspirator. It is wrong, and thus I protest."

I am not giving this to his doctor. He sounds like the unabomber of urine. I did call his doctor. I don't imagine she cares anymore that I do about his anti-urine beliefs. He is some how blaming me because society demands urine tests. Why should I have to give his doctor the anti-urine speech?I wanted to stay out of it and let him handle it with his docor, but he refused to go to class, so I called her. She will not be in until Monday. I just do not know what to do. I guess If I am crazy and unstable as he says, he can leave to get away from me.