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Originally posted by KRL
HRS is pretty rough to deal with. When my son was about 4 years old he got into his bottle of Flinstone chewable vitamins and ate a whole bunch. I called poison control just to see if that would be dangerous or not and they said because of the iron content we should take him to the ER and have his stomach pumped, which we did just to be on the safe side. Ingesting too much iron in a child doesn't show up right away. It takes about 2 weeks for it to start doing a number on the liver and can then be lethal.
Anyway we took him in. They got it all out. They made us keep him over night at the hospital. When we went to pick him up and check him out they said we can't discharge him yet until you speak to the HRS. I was like, excuse me. Why do we need to talk to the HRS. And the station nurse said anytime a child accidently ingests a potentially poisoinous substance HRS has to come in and interview the whole family. I was like you got to be kidding it was a bottle of kids vitamin chews. And the nurse said rules are rules just have a seat and wait.
It took 3 hours for the woman from HRS to arrive and I was going nuts by that time just from the wait. Then this HRS lady arrives and she has an instantly antagonistic attitude towards my wife and I like we're bad parents.
I asked her how long this interview would take and she said however long I decide it will be. That tells you what a power trip this one was on. So she starts asking why we keep pills within a childs reach and I told her we don't he pulled a chair up and grabbed them off the counter. Then she goes why don't you keep your pills closed and we said we did he figured out how to open them. Then she said why weren't you watching your child. And I told her I was in my home office and my wife was on the phone and our son was watching TV in the living room.
Then she really started being ridiculous and goes what other drugs do you keep in your house. Do you have controlled substances like cocaine, marajuana, in your house. At this point I wanted to pop her one right in the face. She goes how many drinks do you have a day. I was at the boiling point cause I don't do drugs and I don't drink liquor.
So I said look lady we waited 3 hours for you to get here. You've asked us enough ridiculoous questions and now enough is enough we're taking our son and going home. And she says no you're not. Not til I say so and if you say one more smart ass remark, he'll be going to HRS tonight.
Needless to say at that point I realized this lady was a total power freak so I just shut up and played the game for another half hour of ridiculous interrogation.
So they are pretty nasty over there.
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I know what its like and you described them perfectly..are you in brevard county by chance..hehe. They took my kids away when my little one jumped off the bed and broke his arm.. tried to threaten my kids with foster home if they didnt lie and tell them we use drugs and drink all the time.. it was fucked up... took three days to get them back,,thanks to a smart lawyer and a very smart Bone Doctor and the fucking truth...scary scary scary they are..