Last Thursday had the potential to be a really fun day and turned into one of the most frustrating, sad, and difficult days. It started with going to the school Rey Salamon and doing consults for the sick kids that day. We saw one little boy named Eduardo. He is 6 years old and has a serious/fatal heart murmur. One of the valves in his heart and/or narrowing of one of his main arteries. His heart is huge due to the extra effort it has to make with each beat to pump suffiecient blood out. However, without some investigation and surgery the little boy will die. This was obviously alarming and so Dr. Karla and I talked to the Director of the school to see if we could talk to the little boy's mom when she came to pick him up. The Director of the school said that the mother is aware that Eduardo has a heart problem and does not care if he is dead or alive. One time when Eduardo turned blue at school and was complaining of chest pain, The Director had to take him to the hospital. When she got to the hospital she called the mom to come and give consent for treatment...and she said she wasn't going to come.
This is neglect, and Dr. Karla and I told the Director of the school to talk to the mom to tell her: Dr. Karla has done a medical evaluation and ordered some testing to look into how to fix Eduardo's fatal heart murmur and that if she neglects to take action to take care of her son then we will get the equivalent of CPS involved.
I am praying wildly for this little boy and his mother. It beaks my heart that such a happy, loveable, little boy does not have the love of his mother. I wanted to cry and scream at her....but the day had to go on and we left that school to...Part 2 of "Terrible Thursday" to come.
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