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Question About Doctors Appointments

CrystalRE's picture

Submitted by CrystalRE on Thu, 07/01/2010 - 2:39pm

DH gets an email from BM today that says:

I am taking daughter(10) to the doctor because she said that she got a stomach ache after she ate. With such vague information DH emails back and asks questions. She fires back with "She has complained because she got a diahrreha after she ate." STILL not much information so DH emails again and asked her if she tried any home remedies. She said that she gave her pepto and it worked but she still wants to take her to the doctor because "if something major is wrong, she wants to know".

Im wondering how you guys react to BM when she acts like a dumbass?!?!?! I have never know any one to take their child to the doctor for having diahrreha....especially after finding an OTC medicine that gets rid of it. It seems like she is completely backwards in her thinking. If you remember my past blogs, she wont treat them when she knows they have headlice, sends them to our house with massive infections that she hasnt taken them to the doctor for, etc. but takes them to the ER for a low fever, to the doctor for diahrreha and dry skin?!?!?!

The part that bothers me even more is that she always seems to come up with reasons to take the kids to the doctor after she makes a mistake (ex. we call her on the headlice thing then the next time the kids are home she finds any reason to take them to the doctor). Would you call her out on these things or just ignore her?

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Pantera's picture

Submitted by Pantera on Thu, 07/01/2010 - 2:46pm

What an idiot!!! Unfortunately I don't think calling her out is going to help.

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Submitted by HennyPen on Thu, 07/01/2010 - 2:47pm

I deal with a hypochondriacal (I think I made that word up) BM. I have learned to ignore, ignore, ignore. which is hard because I am a nurse on top of it. So far SD has been diagnosed (by BM) with

Swine Flu
Kidney infection
appendicitis
allergies to everything
bladder infections
sinus infections
inflammed alveoli
bronchitis
staph infection of the skin

then ran kid to the doctor or ER only to be told she has a cold or a stomach virus.

This is all in the past 6 months. It's assanine. I literally just ignore her and her medical diagnosis.

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Submitted by stormabruin on Thu, 07/01/2010 - 2:55pm

Our BM is a hypochondriac as well. Being on Medicaid, she doesn't have to pay for any of the visits, so rather than just take the kids to the doctor, she hauls them to the ER for a headache or a stomach ache, or because they threw up.

SS spent 4th of July with us year before last & refused to put on shorts & a t-shirt because his nanny (BM's mom) & BM got him paranoid about West Nile Virus. So, we had him at the park in 89 degrees with blue jeans & a long sleeve shirt for the day.

Bm takes it farther than overreacting to just physical issues.

DH told SD to get her ass in her bed one night. SD told BM about it...that it hurt her feelings, & BM had her in counseling that week.

I don't know that it would do any good to call her out on it. I would want to, just to point out that she's screwing her kids up, but I don't know that it would solve anything.

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Submitted by violetforest on Thu, 07/01/2010 - 2:57pm

No tax payers just pay the medicaid bills instead. Thank God I'm working for people to get free health care when I have to pay for mine.

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Submitted by midwestmama on Thu, 07/01/2010 - 3:02pm

Well since BM pretty much Never took her kid to the doctor, even if he was coughing up a lung!! Not sure what to make of someone at the opposite extreme?? But I'd go with ignore.

We arent involved one iota with SS or any doctor appts - no idea who his doctor even is? If he was ever sick, I'd say he needs to stay home and not visit (back when he visited in our house) so I dont know? Based on your sitch...I'm thinking it's just how she is and as long as there's no cause for alarm, just blow her off. Who cares really? If anything, I might say something like "thanks but you only need to let me know in the event something IS "really wrong" otherwise you're off the hook for notifying me" in whatever words that would not be offensive.

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Submitted by stormabruin on Thu, 07/01/2010 - 3:11pm

I believe BM has something...

It's like she's desparate for people to see how concerned she is for her children. She has to put in the face of anyone who will take notice to how cautious she is. Effing idiot. I can give skids an Advil & their headache will go away AND save the taxpayers money.

Who's Superman now biotch???

CrystalRE's picture

Submitted by CrystalRE on Thu, 07/01/2010 - 3:12pm

I guess I worry about her teaching the children that this is the way to be? Also...she had one of my SD's on antibiotics when she didnt need them so many times that she developed an allergy to one of them. With MRSA going around the schools I hate to have her develop a resistance to antibiotics and it sickens me to think that the doctor may put her through all sorts of tests for no reason (God only knows what shes telling the doctors). I guess I just have to let those thoughts go and let BM do what she thinks she needs to do because I cant change her.