This is my first post as a blogger. So I will begin in the beginning. I'm sure other things will come in the middle of my story. But I knew a long time ago that I would have to write my story one day. To get it off my chest... To tell other mothers what can happen... To make the world aware of the injustice going on...
My sweet baby boy was 3 months old in the beginning of 1996. He had already been admitted to 3 different hospitals, and had one surgery. I was a young mother, scared to death....
I woke up to a lady standing over me, with some papers. I sat up, thinking this was another nurse. After 13 days in the hospital with my poor baby, I had met plenty. She introduced herself as a lawyer for DFCS. She served me with a subpoena to be in court the next morning... I was being charged with medical neglect.
I had family and friends testify for me in court. I had family willing to take my son into their care if he was removed. I had a neighbor that I had only known a couple of months in court telling them how well I took care of my son. I had a son that was in patient in a hospital an hour away.... I was found guilty of medical neglect.
I lost my son for the first time. This is a son that I will lose repeatedly.... Under different circumstances each time. But this was my first fight with DFCS. And I figured out real quick what they were capable of. I know plenty of children. I have had 3 since then. I don't know of any of them being in a hospital so many times in the first 3 months of their life... If DFCS can prove medical neglect when my son is a patient in the best pediatric hospital in the state, they can do ANYTHING!!!
