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Old May 14, 2006, 10:28 AM
jdfreemn jdfreemn is offline
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Hello everyone,

I have a problem and don't really know where to start to get this corrected. A little background first...

My fiance and I have been together for almost four years. She has a little sister that had a case of spinal meningitis when she was six months old. She did survive and is about to turn 20 this year. As a result of the sickness, she has spent her entire life going through seizures and other developmental ailments. Recently, she had a device placed near her brain that sends small electrical impulses to the brain every five minutes. This was done to help reduce the number of seizures that she has. Of course, she is also on several medications for the same thing and has been all of her life.

Also, due to everything, she has been receiving social security payments all her life. As far as the government is concerned, she is considered to be disabled.

Recently, my fiance and I went for a visit, and while we were there, I went into the bathroom. At the bottom of the toilet were two pills. I didn't really think much of it at the time and did my business and flushed. But that image kept popping up in my mind and finally I went online to try and identify those pills. I went to an online pill identification site and from the shape, color and markings, the site determined that the pills were Dapakote. They also had a picture of them on the site and I can say with 99.9% conviction that it was them.

Dapakote is a medication for several mental ailments including seizures.

The one thing that I fear the most at this point is the possibility that her parents are deliberately skipping dosages of my fiance's sister's medication to cause her to have more seizures. If she has more seizures, she will not risk losing her social security payments.

It makes me sick just thinking about it and I want to somehow help, but I don't have any idea where to start.

If anyone here can give me any ideas, I would greatly appreciate it.

I was at first thinking that I could call child services for the state of Georgia, but since she is almost 20 years old, I don't think that would be the way to go.