[blparent] Kids and Meds

[Tay Laurie]

this  was back in 2008, in Kansas. I hope it's not being done now.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kate McEachern" <kflsouth at gmail.com>
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Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2012 5:16 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] Kids and Meds


> 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>
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> 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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