by munchausen_y1qjhr | Apr 19, 2019 | Personal Narrative
I am convinced that my sister Bernadette is pretending to have terminal cancer. I am angry, upset, and terrified right now. This all started in January, when Bernadette called to tell me that a small tumor had been found on her ovary during a routine scan. She...
by munchausen_y1qjhr | Apr 8, 2019 | Personal Narrative
In all civilized societies, it’s a given that mothers protect their children. Protecting children is such normal everyday expected behavior that when a mother not only fails to protect, but actually tries to harm her child, it’s something to consider and...
by munchausen_y1qjhr | Apr 5, 2019 | Personal Narrative
This is a case in which I was an expert for the defense. Rebecca, a 32-year-old part-time athletic coach, was a passenger in a van operated by the Police Athletic League of a major city. During an outing, the van and a car sideswiped each other. No injuries were...
by munchausen_y1qjhr | Apr 5, 2019 | Personal Narrative
Our suspicions about Munchausen by proxy/medical child abuse began when my young son, Sam, came for his first Christmas visit since he had moved to Anchorage with his mother, Amy. Amy and I were divorced. Sam was six years old. Amy had warned us that Sam was suffering...
by munchausen_y1qjhr | Mar 18, 2019 | Personal Narrative
I moderate an online support forum for people with epilepsy and their caregivers. Last year, one of these members managed to throw our entire community into disarray. Her username was Jasmine. She introduced herself as the mother of a son who had intractable epilepsy....
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