tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2186593343917545414.post3498456699978660171..comments2024-03-10T12:29:30.004-07:00Comments on pediatric neurology: Munchausen syndrome by proxyGalen Breningstall, MDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07170864203251456228noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2186593343917545414.post-35894634480822102412017-12-14T08:34:37.620-08:002017-12-14T08:34:37.620-08:00Dakil says Bowen-Wright provided different informa...Dakil says Bowen-Wright provided different information to different providers, reported medical problems never witnessed by medical professionals and refused to comply with medical recommendations that would have resulted in less invasive medical interventions, such as feeding tubes.<br /><br />After his 2015 release from Dallas Children’s, Bowen-Wright transferred him to Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston but refused to provide them medical records from Children’s Medical Center of Dallas. The cycle of medical testing began anew, the warrant says.<br /><br />On Nov. 9, Bowen-Wright brought Christopher to Children’s Hospital in Dallas. She claimed he was suffering from seizures, according to the CPS affidavit obtained by the Star-Telegram.<br />Doctors could find no seizure activity on the EKG. But medical staff saw what appeared to be “whole body jerking,” Dakil wrote.<br /><br />“I am very concerned that mother has moved from exaggerating symptoms to inducing symptoms,” she wrote. “If mother has given Chris something to induce a seizure, this is potentially fatal.”<br /><br />Doctors told her she needed to wean Christopher off of some of his medications and medical equipment. She refused their requests, according to the CPS affidavit.<br /><br />After doctors in Dallas consulted with their Houston counterparts, they reported their concerns to CPS.<br /><br />“Christopher’s history provided verbally by Ms. Kaylene Bowen paints a picture of a very sick child,” the CPS investigator wrote in the affidavit. “The doctors do not find Christopher to be sick. Ms. Bowen has Christopher on oxygen, yet Christopher is fine without oxygen. Christopher is able to eat normally and does not need a feeding tube.”<br /><br />On Nov. 10, the investigator interviewed Bowen-Wright at her home. She told the investigator that she did not work because she stays at home to care for Christopher. She told him she was on food stamps, Medicaid, and received an SSI check for Christopher.<br /><br />She denied giving her child too much medication. She stated she "does not see what’s wrong in wanting to take care of her child and make sure he has the best doctors that they can offer him,” the affidavit says.<br /><br />She denied refusing to let doctors test and conduct blood work on him.<br /><br />When the caseworker asked to see Christopher, the boy jumped to the bottom from the fourth step, the investigator reported.<br /><br />Medical experts reviewed records stating back to 2009 detailing the unnecessary care. Among them, he had a central line placed by his heart that was not needed. He also had an unnecessary feeding tube of the most invasive type as it goes into his small intestine rather than his stomach.<br /><br />On one fundraising website, Bowen-Wright claimed that he had a rare congenital condition that prevented the delivery of “oxygen-rich blood through his body."<br /><br />When he was taken from this mother’s care, he was on an IV and oxygen, the warrant says. He was admitted to Children’s Hospital in Dallas. He soon began eating normally and was taken off oxygen. Doctors also reported that he was having no issues with seizures or fatigue.<br /><br />Crawford has seen his son twice since he was put in foster care.<br /><br />“He looked as if nothing had ever happened to him,” he says. “He’s a blessing. God has watched over him.”<br /><br />Crawford is fighting to get his son back. He is in the process of trying to hire an attorney to help him, but he knows he could be in for an expensive fight. Crawford’s co-workers have set up a GoFundMe to help him.<br /><br />“Out of everything that has happened, the worst thing you can do is put my children in foster care with strangers,” he says. “I need my son in my life and my son needs me in [his] life.”<br /><br />He believes money was Bowen-Wright's motivation, and he wants her to go prison for life.<br /><br />“Obviously, she was living life for free and off my son,” he says.<br /><br />Crawford blames the system – the judges, the doctors, and CPS – who he says failed to keep his son from eight years of misery that he never should have had to endure.<br /><br />http://www.king5.com/mobile/article/news/mom-arrested-after-son-has-323-hospital-visits-13-surgeries/281-499168197Galen Breningstall, MDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07170864203251456228noreply@blogger.com