I am glad that Grechin is doing well in her program
and especially glad that she got to visit her little
boy in the hospital. I am sure that makes you feel
so much better seeing she is going in a right
direction.
Poor litle boy, having teeth pulled and worked on is
no fun no mattter what your age.
I once babysat a boy who was said to have behavior
problems, but actually he just needed attention, his
mother used the drugs for hyperactivity asa answer so
she wouldn't have to watch him and actually make him
do the right thing.
Rhonda
--- Phil Scovell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Gretchen's little 4 year old boy needed some major
> dental work done to the
> extent he had to be put to sleep. At first, a
> couple of weeks ago when one
> of his teeth abscessed, they thought they would have
> to literally remove 80
> percent of his teeth. Due to the abscess and a
> double ear infection, he was
> in the hospital for two days. If you are wondering
> how this could happen,
> they neglected taking care of his teeth, that is,
> Gretchen and her husband,
> Chris. Fortunately, yesterday the ministry Gretchen
> is enrolled in, allowed
> her to go and spend the whole day with her son in
> the hospital. They never
> let any of these people in the rehab ministry go any
> place alone so she had
> another girl from the home with her all day. One
> reason was because they
> were concerned that just being around her son, and
> especially her husband,
> that she might walk away from the home. Girls, and
> boys in the other drug
> house, come and go all the time. Anyhow, we got to
> talk with Gretchen
> yesterday and her son had four front teeth removed
> and 7 crowns and caps on
> other teeth. So, in short, he came out with flying
> colors and he didn't
> lose but the four teeth fortunately. I called today
> and his dad had taken
> the day off to stay with him but he says his teeth
> aren't hurting but his
> tongue and his throat were hurting due to the tube
> they had to put down his
> throat and I suppose they really did a lot of
> pulling around on his tongue
> while working. Anyhow, Taylor is doing fine today
> and getting some extra
> rest. He has a cold anyhow and a cough and I was
> hoping they would have
> waited to he got over that but they didn't. It
> appears that Gretchen will
> be coming home most Saturdays now for awhile and
> eventually she gets to come
> for the entire weekend. Her Saturday visits are
> alone, that is, no one from
> the home has to come with her. Gretchen told me, or
> did I mention this in
> an earlier message? Gretchen told me that they have
> had several new girls
> admitted to the home and she is often awakened
> during the night and called
> upon to go and pray with the other girls who are
> having a difficult time
> during the night. Sorry. I just had to stop and
> cry a little bit there
> just thinking about it. Sandy and I have waited
> many years to see our
> daughter acting and caring for others and praying
> over them. She talked to
> me a great deal about the hours she spends praying
> every week. I know some
> on the list don't believe in the baptism of the Holy
> Spirit and the gift of
> tongues but she told me all about her prayer
> language and how she spends
> time praying for people by name in tongues and all
> sorts of other
> testimonials related to prayer. I believe she said
> that one day she prayed
> six hours for our new grandson that my youngest son
> and his wife are
> adopting because of a hold up that occurred in the
> final hearing which was
> supposed to be today. A problem arose at the pre
> school Anthony goes to in
> the mornings and he came home and told his mom and
> dad that the teacher
> pulled his pants down to see if he had any marks on
> his body. People were
> called, meetings were arranged, and come to find
> out, it was true. So the
> social services had to cover their tracks on this a
> little because they
> found out about it from my son who called to
> complain. The Social workers
> involved with Anthony's case were really mad this
> happened at the school but
> as I said, to save face, they pushed the adoption
> back a little longer.
> This is another way of saying, you didn't do
> anything wrong as foster
> parents but we want to cover our butts in case
> something might come up
> later. Anthony does have behavioral problems, they
> say, but frankly, he is
> just a strong willed child. I married a strong
> willed child but she was a
> little older than a child when I married her. If
> you call 21 older that is.
> Frankly, I have always envied strong willed people
> so I don't think little
> Anthony has any behavioral problems at all. We have
> to work with him a
> little more than our other grandchildren but if your
> mother was a drug
> addict and gave you up after a year and said she
> didn't want you, you might
> need a little extra attention, too, if you were only
> four years old. Which
> reminds me of something I will share in another
> message concerning children.
> I believe you will find it very interesting.
>
> Phil.
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