“A lot of immunizations are missing”

“Growth charts are important. Whenever you see problems in kids, they’ll stop eating, they’ll start acting out. ….their weight goes down. You can put them in a nice foster home and you’ll see that everything goes up again”

“Sometimes the scary thing that has come to my attention is that several physicians may be prescribing medication, not knowing about the other. And we’ve had to put the brakes on and say, “You know what, we better not give anything until one doctor looks at all of these” Because we’ve had some situations where if the child was given all the medications it would’ve put the kids into a medical crisis”

“I case manage pretty much teenagers and sometimes the parent, the children may have a lot of medical issues and the parents are not all there. They’re not always forthcoming with the doctors they’ve been to or what the issues they have, so when you take the child to the doctor you’re trying to guess… guessing with the doctor”

“I had a case until two weeks ago, where there’s four children and there’s three different doctors. Primaries, three different pediatricians. I mean if you’re talking about specialists I can understand, but three different pediatricians”

If it’s a school age child, your try to arrange him to get to school and you don’t have that private immunization history. Then you wind up taking the child to the new pediatrician and you may wind up getting a second dosage of something that they’ve already had. And sometimes the parents are not as truthful as to the prior pediatrician and that particular pediatrician is no longer practicing.”

“There was no other way to tell if my pre-teen age foster kids had their early childhood immunizations, the doctor had to test their blood, and based on that finding give them their immunizations”

“My child had been sick over the years I had him as a foster, we went to 9 different doctors to find our what was wrong. It was only at time of adoption, when I could see certain paperwork, that we saw a diagnosis given years before and it was easily treatable.”