The father of an eight-year-old child all this time tried to fight for him. But the judges were invariably on the mother’s side.
How many doctors has your child been through? If everything is in order with health, then it is unlikely that there will be more than a couple of dozen specialists, and even then because of routine medical examinations by narrow specialists. Christopher Bowen from Dallas had visited hundreds of doctors by the age of eight. On his account – 323 hospitalizations and 13 surgical operations. Do you think the boy is unlucky with his health and is terribly ill? No, he is absolutely healthy. But his mother is unlikely.
Kailin, Christopher’s mom, was considered a real heroine. After all, she has been fighting for the life of her son all these eight years. Exhausted, takes him to the doctors, nurses him after operations. People collected donations to make life easier for an unfortunate child with a bunch of dangerous diseases that were slowly killing him.
“I don’t know how long my boy will live,” Kailin cried while giving interviews.
It all started before the baby was born. Chris’s parents were not married or even lived together. The casual sex ended in pregnancy, and Kailin decided to keep the baby. Ryan, his father, did not refuse to participate in the life of the baby. But it was rarely possible to see the baby – he was sick all the time.
“Chris has a new disease every week,” Ryan says. It was he who tried to draw the attention of the police to the mother’s behavior. But the court eventually forbade him to approach the child: Kailin convinced the judge that her son was too sick, and the father had no idea how to treat him. Anyway, their meetings have a bad effect on the boy’s health.
Doctor visits began when Chris was 11 days old. The mother decided that he was allergic to milk. Further more. Kailin claimed that Chris has a rare medical condition that makes it difficult for him to breathe. The kid did not part with the oxygen cylinder now. The mother drove the child in a wheelchair – according to her, he was too weak to walk. Then Kailin said that the child had cancer. And she even tried to get her son included in the lung transplant program.
All this time, the father was trying to prove that his son is absolutely healthy. But nobody listened to him. The judges, looking at the mother’s tears, repeatedly denied Ryan the right to see the child. And only last year, an investigation began: doctors one by one confirmed that the boy had no health problems. Doctors did not find a single proof of the diseases attributed to him by his mother. However, the operations were still done and the drugs were prescribed regularly! It just doesn’t fit in my head. Compassionate people continued to transfer money to Kailin for Chris’s treatment. The boy was still wrapped in tubes: the oxygen was also added to the nourishing one.
In the end, the mother refused the services of doctors who offered to wean Chris from drugs.
“From exaggerating the symptoms, the mother moved on to producing them,” the medical report says. That is, Kailin started giving the child substances that caused the seizures!
“The woman seems to have Munchausen syndrome. This is a mental disorder in which a person either pretends, or exaggerates, or artificially causes symptoms of the disease in himself, so that there is a reason to go to the doctors. This is how people get the attention and care that they lack in real life. It’s scary that in this case the child was the victim of the mother’s unhealthy psyche, ”explains psychologist Maria Klishina.
Now Kailin is arrested, and the boy was sent to a foster family. His father has started a new series of battles – he wants his son to finally live with him. After all, he fought for Chris all this time, although no one believed him. Now people are collecting donations to hire a lawyer for Ryan and Chris has finally found a normal family.