Thread: Poor Nephew
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Old Jun 10, 2006, 01:03 PM
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Thanks all for your replies.

I agree that going from house to house, from friend to whoever, is very tough on the baby. Recently he began getting ill, throwing up, diarrhea, and the worse case of diaper rash I had ever seen in my life. I asked my sister what could be casing this problem and when she was going to take the baby to the pediatrician. One evening I even offered to give her and the baby a ride to Oak Hill (40 minutes away from my house) to get the baby to the doctor. She of course refused because she was expecting friends that evening. Finally when they did get the baby to the appointment it was discovered that he was very allergic to his formula. All the pain and suffering the baby went through could have stopped immediately if they would have taken him to the doc like they were supposed to.

I actually went and seen my nephew yesterday. He was doing very well the throwing up and diarrhea has ceased and he seems much happier. Of course my mother and sister were physically fighting over food stamps in front of the baby and my kids as well. But besides that psychotic episode all went well.

Ever since mom has stopped doing drugs she's began acting as herself again. She truly does care for the sake of the baby and I believe that if she was unable to handle him mentally or is having cravings so bad that she was going to leave she would either call me or drop him off at my house. Believe it or not I trust my drug addict mother will do the right thing before my cold, heartless, and very selfish sister would.

I seriously think the baby will be safe and fine. I'm unable to take him because my husband won't let me and it's really really hard with three babies in diapers. But I feel comforted that I'm close and I will come whenever called. If anything real neglectful or bad was to happen or even get close to happening, I would call CPS on my sister in a heart beat. I just don't feel that what's been done is not worthy enough to call CPS and tear them apart. I would be hated forever.

Plus there's actually already a CPS case opened on my mother because of my sister calling CPS on my mom, so they are actually already monitoring that household.

Thanks all for you replies and opinions, I appreciate that you all care.
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