After struggling to get treatment for her mentally ill son, a mother turns to an act of desperation: giving up custody. By thewanreport:
Lisa Rowe at her home in Hendersonville, N.C. For years she has struggled to get her son mental help in battles with insurance companies, school districts and treatment centers. HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. — As she sat in the courthouse parking lot, Lisa Rowe looked at her reflection in her rearview mirror.She still had a bruise on her right arm where her 17-year-old son had grabbed her three weeks earlier, screaming expletives in her face as she was driving him to school.
Lisa, 60, thought about the years she had spent battling insurance companies, hospitals, school districts and treatment facilities. She thought about her panic when her son first became suicidaland how much worse things had gotten over the past two years: six trips to the hospital. Back-to-back alcohol and prescription pill overdoses. Clashes“The juvenile has hit and spit on law enforcement officers. He has made threats to kill others,” the summons read.
“You and I have been through hell together,” she told her son, as she prepared to hang up. “I love you, buddy.” A man had just walked out on his pregnant partner and threatened not to return unless she got an abortion or gave away the baby. She often slept with her favorite one under her pillow — her son at 7 after a day on the lake, his tousled hair framing the beginnings of a smile.documentaries on minimalism. The pensive songs he wrote about the turmoil he felt inside.
The screaming tantrums began at 3. Then came developmental delays, repetitive tics. He threw chairs in elementary school and bit his own arms until he bled. There were never enough psychiatric beds, especially for kids. A charity, the Ronald McDonald House, gave her a place to sleep near the hospital. But surrounded by other families battling cancer and other physical diseases, she felt like an outcast.
Lisa said she took on thousands in personal loans to pay for his treatment. She begged for help from New Mexico lawmakers. She told her story to the local newspaper, hoping to publicly shame the insurance company into providing her son the care he needed.When UnitedHealthcare was persuaded to pay for a treatment center, the three in Albuquerque that accepted Medicaid rejected her son, calling his symptoms too complex.
Knowing her son needed help, Lisa took him there. But she was so alarmed by the conditions that she asked state authorities to inspect the facility.several other kids had been beating up her son in the absence of adult supervision, including an incident in which a boy held a diningIn a phone interview with The Post, her son described the trauma he experienced there.
In a written statement, UnitedHealthcare confirmed that it authorized treatment for him at Villa Santa Maria. “Now it’s my turn to teach [him],” Lisa wrote in her journal at the time. “To save him from himself. To help him find some reason to trust others even if it’s just me.”At 15, after overdosing on stolen prescription pills, he spat on nurses in the ER. He threatened to “shoot up at church,” according to hospital records. He vowed to the ER doctor trying to help him: “I’m going to find your name, find you in the street and cut your head off.
Her younger sister, a retired police officer, got so worried for Lisa’s safety that she called the local sheriff’s department, begging them to arrest her nephew.Simpson, 57. But the authorities told her the boy was a minor and mentally ill. “They said they were already doing the maximum possible.”
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