SD9 IS NOW TAKING MUSCLE RELAXERS!!!!!!! I COULD SCREAM!!!!!

okay, sd9 IS a little bit of a drama queen. i get that. she can really ham it up...what makes that worse is that BM is an idiot. for real. in the last 12 months they have taken her to the emergency room 11 different times. sd9 has no medical problems, she is a healthy, active, (dramatic) 9 year old girl. one time they took her to the emergency room because she fell off a swing at the playground. geez!!! kids fall people! they fall off bikes, they get bruises! unless something is seriously wrong, you don't rush them to the ER and then keep them out of school for a few days! but this one takes the cake to me. i am so angry.
FH called me at work and told me that bm just called and said she took sd to the emergency room last nite. because she couldn't move her leg. her leg was cramping. THAT"S IT! and of course if i know sd, she was probably pitching a fit. hey...i get leg cramps from time to time. the worst is when you're sleeping and you get them...they hurt like hell. but they go away. or in her case, it could even be a little bit of growing pains. but i'm betting on a leg cramp. and i'm sure once sd realized that her leg problem got everyones attention she really turned up the drama! so they rushed her to the emergency room. but that's not even the part that really pisses me off. the doctor has prescribed her muscle relaxers and they are keeping her out of school!!!!
what kind of a quack so called medical professional prescribes muscle relaxers for a nine year old with a leg cramp!!!! ARE YOU F'ING KIDDING ME!!! and she is being kept out of school and at the house high as a kite right now. her mother is an idiot. the doctor is an idiot. i know sd is a drama queen and pitched a fit but part of being a parent/slash adult is having the ability to operate and make good logical decisions in spite of the flood of emotion coming from the child. this never would have gone down like this had she been with me and her dad....fh talked to sd today and she was ssssooooooo out of it because of the pills. i had to tell him i couldn't listen anymore it was just making me too angry.

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That is OUTRAGOUS! What a

That is OUTRAGOUS! What a stupid DR, and a stupid MOM!

DISbelief~

~You have to BE crazy to UNDERSTAND crazy!~ ; )

right??? and apparently by

right??? and apparently by the time they got to the ER, she was walking but kept complaining that her leg was stiff...and it probably was. after i get a leg cramp my leg is stiff too!! everyone gets these! and they still give her narcotics! i just want to slap the SH** out of BM!!

Muscle relaxers are not

Muscle relaxers are not narcotic and do not contain anything similar.

Narcotic refers to opium, opium derivatives, and their semi-synthetic or fully synthetic substitutes "as well as cocaine and coca leaves," which although classified as "narcotics" in the U.S. Controlled Substances Act, are chemically not narcotics.
Many law enforcement officials in the United States inaccurately use the word "narcotic" to refer to any illegal drug or any unlawfully possessed drug.

F.Y.I

How can she possibly resist the maddening urge to eradicate history at the mere push of a single button? The beautiful, shiny button? The jolly, candy-like button? Will she hold out, folks? Can she hold out?

wow..thanks. that was so

wow..thanks. that was so helpful!!! seriously happyhappy...either you're being a bitch or you completely missed the point of my post. i don't know what your situation is, but if you have any business being on here, you should know better than to respond with some shit like that when someones this pissed off. there's a LOT of backstory i'm not getting into...cuz i'm here to vent for the moment. so if you just want to be a smart ass don't reply...thanks.

I think you took this

I think you took this wrong.

She doesn't appear to be acting like a bitch on purpose on her first response to you. It appears that she was trying to explain the difference between pharmacological verbage and common misconceptions of said verbage.
"you should know better than to respond with some shit like that when someones this pissed off."<---I didn't understand the need for this...how should she "know better"? She was giving some insight from a medical perspective. The need to vent is totally understood but maybe while venting we can also see another point of view without feeling like someone is being flip to our blogs...

Hope it works out with your SD...you should keep everyone posted on the situation regardless of unfavorable responses received.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. ~Buddha

A nine year old has no

A nine year old has no business taking muscle relaxers for a growing pain. I used to get those too when I was kid. In fact, I just had a major leg cramp last night, they are common in pregnancy. I'll tell you what, I didn't rush myself to the ER.

Unbelievable. I guess SD9 is a hypochondriac in the making!!!

Our BM is a pill/doctor mom too. Any little sniffle and it's rush to the urgent care clinic or ER. Ugh. There's no reason for kids to even take motrin as much as the skids do. All they have to do is whine that their hand hurts or get a scrape and it's Tylenol time!

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on." ~Robert Frost

Kat27: While I'm a CSM and

Kat27:

While I'm a CSM and a BM ( with as much right to be here as YOU), I'm also a medical professional and occasionally a bitch, depending on whose perception it is. You were going on & on about the 'narcotics' that your SD was prescribed by a medical doctor and I was just clearing up your misconceptions about muscle relaxers being non-narcotic. If constructive criticism is considered being a bitch in your eyes, then I own it proudly.

With a P.H.D. in Pharmacology, I guess that I really SHOULD know better than to try to explain the facts to someone with such a closed mind and a one-track thought process.

I wasn't at all nasty in my reply, but judging from your angry reaction, you weren't looking for advice or help, just for others to agree with you and validate your position.

Good luck. I have a strange feeling that you're really going to need it.

How can she possibly resist the maddening urge to erradicate history at the mere push of a single button? The beautiful, shiny button? The jolly, candy-like button? Will she hold out, folks? Can she hold out?

Why does she go to the ER

Why does she go to the ER instead of seeing a regular doctor about things? Maybe BM has Munchausen syndrome? That may be a little far fetched, but hey ya never know!

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Ummmm... Kat27: You're not

Ummmm...

Kat27:

You're not even a stepmother, only dating a man with children ( according to your bio) and I'm not really sure that qualifies you as a SM. Are you sure that YOU belong here?

Alwaysventing: Judging from

Alwaysventing:

Judging from your choice of dialogue in response to my reply to another poster, let me be the first to tell you that it speaks volumes about your character as well as your education level, in a most unflattering way.
Being 'in the medical profession' as you stated that you were can mean a lot of things, from being a highly skilled surgeon to a lowly bedpan dumper. Since you said 'was', I have to guess that it was the latter, since those who invest a large sum of money into their educations normally don't walk away from them by choice.
Please feel free to show me in the rules of this site where it says that one must automatically agree with a poster as a condition of being able to respond. Some people find information is powerful, while others find it intimidating.

It's amazingly ironic that

It's amazingly ironic that once I called you out on your choice of dialogue, how quickly the content of your post has changed. Nice try, though...

"a lowly bedpan

"a lowly bedpan dumper"...SERIOUSLY?! Who the F are you to call ANYONE lowly? In my opinion, it takes a pretty caring person to be "bedpan dumper". You are no better than anyone else, so get off your high horse. Its a long fall to the bottom, but I'm sure you'll make it

"I child proofed my whole house, but they STILL get in!"

Muscle relaxer may not be a

Muscle relaxer may not be a narcotic..But how many 9 year old children are taking them?? I do believe this is over the top and I agree with ya' Kat! You have every reason to be pissed!

"And this too shall pass..."

Kat - How is any of this

Kat - How is any of this affecting you? I'm not sure I understand

Happy - LMAO

Dorothy - By definition, if she's only dating him she has no step issues. Doesn't mean she doesn't have issues. I 100% agree SHE has issues.

I'm not discrediting her

I'm not discrediting her issues. I don't really care if she's married, dating, or just handholding and hairbraiding the guy.

But if you say they are step issues, they aren't. They are dating issues. Actually, scratch that, cause from the initial post I'm not sure what the issue is. Her boyfriends child's mother took her to the doctor who prescribed medication for her. No one is asking her to care for the daughter or pay for the meds or go pick up the meds or take off work to take the kid to the dr... So MY response was, what's the real issue? Is her boyfriend a jahova's witness and furious that BM got the kid satan's medicine? The question is born out of concern.. cause if she's marrying this guy and already having issues about something that has nothing to do with her then she could be in big trouble once there IS a real issue.

(Sorry, I'm nitpicky on semantics. I can't be having "issues at work" if I'm unemployed. I also dislike "mute point" and "irregardless". FWIW, I'm fairly certain Kat will respond by calling me a bitch and ignoring anything I have to say so if I were you I really wouldn't worry about her feeling like I'm discounting her feelings. She doesn't seem to want to engage in any responses other than SD is a manipulating POS, BM is a POS, poor you. That renders me pretty much useless here.)

Yes. I know why

Yes. I know why "irregardless" isn't a word.

You aren't required to read the sucky delivery of any of my messages so that would make this point... mute.

laughing isn't that a Joey

*laughing* isn't that a Joey Tribianism? "make this point...mute" *giggle*

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. ~Buddha

I believe her issue with the

I believe her issue with the situation is that someone she cares about is being given a drug that makes her "out of it" for no real reason. Its irritating even to me, to hear about kids being drugged up. Apparently not ALL of us are cold hearted and only care about things that directly affect ourselves. Just sayin...

"I child proofed my whole house, but they STILL get in!"

Then her husband should be

Then her husband should be taking SD to another doctor to verify that the medication ISN'T what SD needs. If he's concerned, that is.

happyhappy...you are right.

happyhappy...you are right. yesterday i wanted someone to validate me. isn't that one of the reasons we are all on here? sometimes we get upset about things, that, maybe, in the long run aren't such a huge deal, but at the moment are bothering us.it's called venting. right or wrong...that's what it is. however, i'm not wrong for feeling the way i do about this.
second, you're right, i'm not technically her stepmother. but after january, i will be. and married or not, FH and i live together, which makes me a part of SD....oh, excuse me FUTURE SD's life. so, yeah, it does affect me. and even though i'm not her bio....i care about the girl. she and i are very close. and i don't want her to grow up to be like her mother. (who has never had a job, jumps around living with different men, is an alcoholic, etc, etc...) SD is a VERY smart girl. and with all the trips to the ER for extremely trivial things....(leg cramp, fell at the playground, had an earache...etc) she missed a LOT of school last year. so much in fact, she was almost not allowed to move to the next grade. i could sit her for an hour going on about ALL the things that bother me about some of these situations, but i'm not going to because i don't need to. i said what i had to say yesterday and i got it off my chest. which is what this site is for, right? thank you to everyone that let me do just that....

Your pathetic attempts at

Your pathetic attempts at dragging me down to your depths just reminds me how pointless it is to engage someone in mental combat who is clearly unarmed. LMAO

I understand that it's in

I understand that it's in some people's nature to try to bring another person down to their depths to make them feel better about themselves and as a means to justify their actions.

It's obvious that you're a miserable.

I wonder why.

"I understand that it's in

"I understand that it's in some people's nature to try to bring another person down to their depths to make them feel better about themselves and as a means to justify their actions"

hmmm....this sounds like something you do in ALL your posts....

"I child proofed my whole house, but they STILL get in!"

my husband is a surgeon and

my husband is a surgeon and has at one time or another prescribed certain muscle relaxers to the occasional younger patient with chronic jaw pain associated with the stress of demands that are placed upon children in this day and age.

We see younger children more and more with worn down teeth from excessive nighttime grinding due to stress and if it weren't for the temporary prescription of muscle relaxers, their teeth would be ruined for life. This is just an example of course and may not necessarily apply to your vent but it just shows that it is not necessarily inappropriate and unsafe to prescribe certain meds to children if needed.

I'd say continued use of a muscle relaxer isn't recommended but can be extremely beneficial if used in the proper way. Some muscle relaxers are not appropriate for child use...I would hope that parents can trust the physician they've chosen to give their child something that is safe for a child to take. This may not be popular for me to say but it is the responsibility of the medical professional to determine what medications are safe/appropriate for their patient...it is not appropriate IMVHO to basically say without speaking to the prescribing physician first about the basis of their decision: "what kind of a quack so called medical professional prescribes muscle relaxers for a nine year old with a leg cramp"----just because a doctor deems it appropriate to prescribe a muscle relaxer to a child doesn't make him/her a "quack".

Best of Luck

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. ~Buddha

IMO, if this were my step

IMO, if this were my step sons & their father & I were questioning a medication he would call the Dr & speak directly with them to find out what exactly the treatment plan was and go from there.

I think that when you are in a step situation/ married or not it is hard to cope when the other parent handles things in ways so different from how we would do it. It is also more complicated when one parent doesn't keep the other in the loop & is evasive. Also throw in the Manchaussen by Proxy possiblities and you have a nasty mess.

Our BM loves her children very much but where we really have issues is the medical arena. I too have a medical & pharmacutical back ground( in addition my mother is a nurse & ran a pharmacy for 19 years )and am very proactive when it come to illness, BM is a farm girl where you only went to the Dr when you were dying.

Dr's can make mistakes with medications & the person recieving the meds can misinterpret the Dr & the pharmacists instructionsThis stuff happens every day. I always say you need to be informed & involved in your & your childrens health. ( I am not knocking DR's or Pharmacists )

Bottom line is if your BF has questions whether the treatment plan he needs to call there & get to the bottom of it. That is his rigt & responsibility as a parent.

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