[blparent] Kids and Meds

[Jo Elizabeth Pinto]

That's the most insane thing I ever heard.  I never had trouble dealing with 
menstruation, and I'm guessing most people don't.

Jo Elizabeth

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, 
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of 
the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life you will have been all of 
these."--George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, American scientist

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From: "Tay Laurie" <j.t.laurie at gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2012 5:26 PM
To: "Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
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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