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Originally Posted by amorris311  same thing happened to me when i was a little bit younger. i broke my arm and had a spiral fracture in the humorus. child services was giving me the full court press as well as my parents. i later come to find out from my mom that a spiral fracture is extremely common for kids that are abused. my mom who was a judge in compton of all places saw a lot of cases like that and was not suprised when they started questioning her about me. i told cs that i was being dumb and jumping from trees with my friends, which was true! i just landed wrong on my arm. either way you can expect the unexpected stop by of cs. they came by for about a month then jsut moved on. sorry about the stress and i hope your son gets better. |
Same deal, except it's the upper leg bone in this case. Thing is, when he fell in the kitchen (a CONCRETE FLOOR covered with linoleum tile), he was twisting as he fell AND holding onto my wife's finger. CS is trying to say it's impossible for him to have just fallen and done that, and the pediatrician (not his normal one, he's fighting tooth and nail for us) started trying to treat me like an idiot. When she FINALLY showed me the x-rays (which she had to magnify twice to see the break), I saw it was a torsion fracture. After a detailed explanation including a dry erase board, markers and some sarcasm (those that know me know that when I get angry, I get extremely calm and sarcastic) I finally had her admit "Well, it's POSSIBLE.....but it's unlikely." I told her "It's unlikely I could be hit by a car crossing the street, but I'd be just as dead." I guess those aircraft accident investigation classes I took came in handy. It was fairly easy to transfer the knowledge of torsion stresses, impacts and collisions over in this case.
Our plan right now is to just go with the flow and hope everything comes out okay. I've got an attorney "on deck" just in case they try to drag this out. If they've done in home visits and spot check inspections, still have no evidence and continue to drag it out, I'm gonna start crying discrimination and harassment. The fact that they didn't communicate to our doctor that they were releasing us from the hospital until 4 hours after the decision was made lowers my faith in the organization to do the right thing. Our doctors had the paper work for our release filled out at 9:30 am, we signed the CS paperwork at around 1, but the doctors told us at 4 PM "We're still waiting on CS to release you." We left at around 6:30 PM. Left hand, meet right hand, now what the hell are you two doing?