Who's drugs are these?
Kelly got a cold, which developed into bronchitis while she was at CB's. CB took her to the doctor and he prescribed some medicine. In Jack and CB's divorce agreement, Jack had agreed to pay for all Kelly's prescription drugs and had set up an account at a pharmacy for it all to be charged to him (CB often tried to take advantage of this and put her own medication on it as well). CB picked up the medication for Kelly which was quite expensive and put it on Jacks account. No problem.
The next day Jack arrived to pick up Kelly for her custodial week with us. CB informs about Kelly's illness and that she needs to be on this medication for the next 5 days. Jack looks in Kelly's bag and asks where the medication is? CB replies, "Oh you can't have it, that bottle is mine".
Jack is flabbergasted..."Can't have it? Are you seriously refusing to hand over Kelly's medication?????". Yep......indeed she was. Although the child would not be with her for 4 1/2 days and would not be needing the remainer of the medicine when she arrived back to CB's,,, the crazy woman would still not allow Kelly to take the medication from her home. She expected us to drive a sick child back to a doctors office and have a new prescription issued and rebuy the drugs. Jack tried to reason as calmly as was possible with the woman, pointing out to her that it was not her medication but Kelly's... and that in fact if you really wanted to get picky.. considering he paid for it.. it was his. She would not go for it. WTF? Was she planning on taking the medication herself????
We took Kelly home. I had an appointment and had to go out. Jack stayed home with all the kids, mine had come down with a cold as well. Jack wrote CB an email, saying he intended to pick up Kelly's medicine and also speak to a lawyer regarding CB's withholding prescribed medicine for the chid.
CB phoned the house, saying she would "allow" him to come back and pick up the medication. Jack explained that he was home alone with 3 sick children and was not going to pile them all in the car and drive back across town. That she was going to have to drop them off. CB said she was 'busy taking down her christmas decorations' and couldn't to it. She chose to leave her child without medicine instead!
We ended up having to get our own medication....... and closed the open account for CB to put Kelly's medication on. Now if CB needs to get medication for Kelly she has to purchase it herself then give us a receipt which we will reimburse her for....... if she lets the child actually have it! CB of course did not like this new arrangement, threatened a law suit and hired a lawyer. Once her lawyer was informed that CB was withholding the childs meds,,,,,,we didn't hear from them again,, funny how that works, hey?

2 Comments:
Ohmigod - I cannot believe what you are dealing with and you sound like you're managing to stay sane!
I've got issues with my ex (like for 8 years he has periodically left tire marks on my driveway after leaving the kids off - once he even hit the back of my car when it was parked in the driveway), but nothing as bad as this...
How do you manage the frustration and anger of dealing with such insanity????
12:09 PM
Dear Anonymous...
How I deal with it is to always try to see the humor in it all.... and in the incidents where I can't find anything to laugh about... valium works well! lol
8:28 PM
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