[blparent] Kids and Meds

[Kate McEachern]

Wow, that is just sad.  I don't meen to be rood or pry, but can I ask when 
this was?  I'm not asking to be smart I would truly like to know.  I would 
hope this isn't being done now, but I know where I work there has been a few 
um- over 70.

Kate
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tay Laurie" <j.t.laurie at gmail.com>
To: "Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2012 7:26 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] Kids and Meds


> Sometimes, even though I hope to heaven this is rare, they will drug blind 
> children of sighted parents. For females, as they did with me, they will 
> put them on something like seasonale. Their rationalisation? "It's easier 
> for the parents  to care for the menstruation if it's less frequent, since 
> the child can never do it on her own." Even though I had demonstrated I 
> was fully cappalbe of doing so.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
> To: "'Deborah Kent Stein'" <dkent5817 at att.net>; "'Blind Parents Mailing 
> List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2012 4:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Kids and Meds
>
>
>> That is a great idea/thought, I wonder what the take on that is.  Are the
>> Doctors more likely to want to drug children of blind parents?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of Deborah Kent Stein
>> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 2:45 PM
>> To: Multiple recipients of NFBnet blparent Mailing List
>> Subject: [blparent] Kids and Meds
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm wondering if blind parents are any more likely than sighted parents 
>> to
>> be told that their children need medication.  It's possible that doctors
>> assume the blind parent can't take other steps to help a child settle 
>> down,
>> or that an active child will be too much for a blind parent to handle. 
>> What
>>
>> are people's experiences?
>>
>> Debbie
>>
>>
>>
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