I made a timeline of some of the
emergency room visits just some of
Joshua's visits and what I want you to
think about here you know Josh you were
taken in 96 and you would have been how
old here in November of 96 I would have
just been born about 11 days prior okay
now
vomiting three days and possible
dehydration now the thing that you have
to think about is what has a mother done
to create the dehydration to take a
child in and then probable respiratory
infection fever no bowel movement then
blood in stool now what they will often
do is they will get blood some way
either from the child or from themselves
put it in a stool sample and take it to
the hospital and say here's what I've
got I've got a child and here's a stool
sample with blood in it and so then of
course the doctor tests this and said
well okay we've got blood in the stool
and so then you have tests for
meningitis now you had you were
subjected to more than one lumbar
puncture right yeah I've had to my
knowledge to spinal taps yeah and these
are very painful and they're also very
dangerous well I I still have
reoccurring back pain in the location of
the spinal tap yeah and particularly
with a child the tolerances are very
very low here then you present with a
fever then head injury loss of
consciousness she would have you go out
and throw bricks at one another yeah I'd
like to touch on that she dragged myself
and my brother out into the backyard and
she encouraged
him to throw bricks because she said it
was fun
so a brick struck me in the back of the
the skull and I just went to black woke
up like about the next day with two
about inch staples in my skull and when
it was time for the the doctors to take
him out
she tried convincing my father to remove
him with a pair of pliers and he refused
so she went ahead and took one one out
by herself with the pliers
yes which tore at at my scalp and my
father rushed me back and got the other
one taken out and it all stitched up and
then of course you were just an infant
and he but here she reports sleepy no
appetite and diarrhea
so you're subjected to blood cultures a
barium enema then again diarrhea then
crew vomiting and diarrhea then you're
dehydrated hypoglycemia and they find
that it's stabilized as when she's not
present and that's one of the things
that becomes a very important diagnostic
criteria because when you're dealing
with someone that is it is creating
these illnesses when you're dealing with
factitious disorder imposed on another
and you take that person out of the
equation the child gets better
well they stop having the symptoms they
stop having the problems because you've
taken away the active problem