Something else seems to be going with him, I think they said he was five but during his crisis was shown with a pacifier in his mouth.Īfter she left treatment her family held their bottom lines – I’m hoping her daughter’s emotional wellbeing is addressed. Hours later she takes him and leaves him alone on the bench while she rushes out to the car to get her fix. Her son was writhing in pain while she put off taking him to the ER because she couldn’t sit there without shooting up. She shoots pain pills as often as every 15 minutes, in front of the kids – her eldest, 8 yo, jokes about “the needle monster, watches over her and asks if she missed the vein and tells her mother she has to do her best to eat because she chews her food and spits it out, again, in front of her kids. She steals his pain meds and coaxes him on what to tell his doctors, her brother says she’s the best mother he’s ever seen and “she’s so positive with the kids.” Her husband has a severe bone infection that he needs surgery to help give him a few more years but he refused to do it because he didn’t want to leave her alone with the kids, which means he’d die in a few years. Yes her name is Jennifer – it was a Canadian episode from earlier this year – one that really stayed with me because she made no effort to shield her children. I wrote this a few weeks ago in resonse to another post: Official Synopsis: A young mother’s eating disorder has been a life-long affliction, now compounded by drug and sex addiction–but to get rid of all of her demons she’ll have to eliminate more than just her food.

If she couldn’t get clean after treatment, I’m at least relieved to find out that she’s no longer living with her children. This was some of the most irresponsible, dangerous parenting I’ve ever witnessed. And while I also sympathize with her husband, I don’t understand why he can’t at least pick the needles up off the floor or suggest that maybe she go into another room. I sympathize with Jennifer’s addiction but I cannot sympathize with the level of selfishness and neglect it takes to do that to your kids. Not only does she inject many times a day right in front of them, with them actually sitting next to her asking her questions as she does it, she also leaves the needles lying around on the table and the floor where they’re easily accessible to her kids. The way she has normalized shooting up as a regular part of her young childrens’ daily lives is really troubling to me. What’s Memorable: I have to say, this one really disgusted me.

Marci intervention update