While on my way over to my daughters house I get a frantic call from her just bawling her eyes out.... "the police took my baby from the day home" Well there I am in the shoe store with Jr Minks and I have no decorum I blurt out "they took him where" then realized I had to pay for my shoes and get us out of there before I lost control.
This is a new dayhome first time visit for my grandson, and when his uncle went to pick him up last nite the dayhome lady told him, he was removed from her care and was at the local clinic, with the police and child welfare. So Uncle R goes up to my daughters work, tells her, picks her up, they drive to her husbands shop pick him up and head for the clinic. They get to the clinic and are denied entrance to the clinic because the clinic fears there would be a scene (remember at this point neither parent has seen their son) Police take each one of the kids (my daughter, SIL, and his brother) individually and interrogate them about everything to do with their life styles (remember these kids are all under the age of 23). After this they find out the Doctor at this clinic is refusing to deal with "this case". In other words if it goes to trial he does not want to take a stand. Sooooooo the children, the case worker, the police and the baby now have to drive across town (45 minutes) to the childrens hospital. There the 3 kids are put into a segregated room, and given the fast track treatment cause they have a police office with them. Of course there is a waiting period cause nothing to do with hospitals in this freakin city happens fast.
The cause of all this, my grand son has 3 - 4 sores on his body that a) are unexplainable as to how he got them and b) they look very much like cigarette burns c) these kids are young and are plagued with blatant discrimination.
FINALLY the Dr arrives, takes one look at the baby, shakes his head and says I know exactlyl what this is. My poor grandson currently is suffereing from a very common childhood virus called, "Hand, Foot and Mouth Desease" It starts as mouth blisters and then shows up on the feet and hands. Very mild desease.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/hand-f ... se/DS00599
Due to the fact the caregiver initiated this the baby can not return to the dayhome until the police go back and explain the entire situation and assure the caregiver he is a well looked after healthy baby boy. And that there will be no confrontation between her and the kids.
Hereinlies my frustration..... What utter BS to put those parents through.... HOWEVER, sadly this woman at the Dayhome did the right thing.
I had to vent and I apologize to my daughter for splattering this all over FG today, but it just goes to show you how it's a double edged sword being a parent these days.
Bless you my daughter for being an awesome mom and bless your man too regardless of what the public wants to think of you 2
XXXXYour mom
I do not know what would have happened, likely the baby would have been taken to a safe place and my "kids" investigated.
