Benjamin's Redemption

DEDICATED TO MY SON BENJAMIN

Ativan...straight to the heart

Images posted on the two-year anniversary of the awful day when a hasty, sloppy, surly Colorado Springs Children's Hospital nurse administered a dose of Ativan too quickly through my son's PICC line -- straight to his heart -- and nearly killed him right in front of my face!  Thank God I was right by his side!!!!

For three years, doctors misdiagnosed my son with "behavioral constipation"
it was said he was holding in his poop
but it was never CONstipation; it was OBstipation -- that is, OBSTRUCTION

Children's Hospital and the quacks who misdiagnosed my son for three years 

could have quickly and quietly covered up

the me$$ of mistake$ they made on my son in any number of way$...like:
HEY $MARTYPANT$, WE'RE $ORRY -- OKAY??
NOW HU$H UP YOUR MOUTH -- $HUT UP AND GO AWAY!

And I would have.

But the hospital instead chose to falsely report to DHS
they said that I suffered from Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy
they lied in court, and helped to remove my children
AND THAT WAS THE WRONG WAY.






You knocked me down, but I got back up.
You hit me with a sucker punch,
but I have a mean left hook.
You socked me in the eye,
but I continue to blacken yours.
You tried so hard to destroy me and my family.
But guess what: I survived.
And I'm not afraid of you at all anymore.





My children have been gone from me now for almost two years.

 BUT THE NIGHTMARE THAT IS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
IS A DAILY REALITY FOR COUNTLESS KIDS AND FAMILIES
CLEAN UP YOUR ACT, CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF COLORADO STOP REMOVING CHILDREN FROM PARENTS WHO QUESTION & DARE DISAGREE

HEY, YOU PEDIATRIC GASTROENTEROLOGISTS
STOP BEING SO DAMNED SLOPPY AND CARELESS
STOP PRESCRIBING MIRALAX OFF-LABEL LIKE IT'S DRAINO
STOP SAYING "POOP" IS "GROSS"
STOP BLAMING THE PATIENT WHEN YOU CAN'T FIGURE OUT WHAT'S WRONG
START TELLING PEOPLE ABOUT HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS OF THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT

OF THIS YOU MAY REST ASSURED:
UNTIL MY CHILDREN ARE RETURNED TO ME
AND POSSIBLY LONG THEREAFTER
I WILL SHOUT LOUD ABOUT YOUR UNAPOLOGETIC INEPTITUDE.


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benjamin and elizabeth, your parents love you

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IMAGE 1: Contrast stuck at the duodenojejunal junction

This image is before the placement of the transpylori feeding tube  -- the arrows are pointing to the duodenum/jejunum -- the contrast would not go any further, indicating OBSTRUCTION.

Small bowel function is impervious to the human will -- in other words, there is no way that anyone can *think* themselves into withholding stool in this area of the digestive tract. Dismiss any doctor who says that your child is withholding if you see something like this in your child's xrays. (Image 1)

IMAGE 2: Endoscope Shoved Through Pyloric Stenosis

Here is an endoscopic image of the placement of my son's transpylori tube, which doctors had to shove through the pyloric sphincter at the bottom of his stomach because it was inflamed shut. (Image 2)

IMAGE 3:  Transpylori Tube, Meet Obstruction This xray shows a lot...the massive inflammation of his stomach and segments of his intestines, the transpylori feeding tube placement directly against and air pockets directly proximal to the obstruction in the small bowel. The arrow is pointing to where the gastrointestinal helicobacter infection had attached itself to one of my son's ribs, leeching from it and beginning to ossify. (Image 3) IMAGE 4 - "Unremarkable" And then this image is a 3-D rendering of the CT scans shown in Images 7 & 8 done at Children's Hospital in Colorado Springs...again, showing where the infection had latched onto my son's rib and vertebrae. Radiologists at the hospital insisted the images were unremarkable, and refused to review the anomalies I found (Image 4).  This is not an image of my son...but it is an image of what had begun to take place in my son as indicated in the image above. The image shows normal gastric mucosa disrupted by a MALT helicobacter infection. IMAGE 5 - H. Heilmannii in the mucosal lining of the intestine  Notice how narrowed the opening is -- intestinal stenosis causing mechanical obstruction. It was never CONstipation, it was OBstipation...and it was surely never encopresis, or anything that could be altered or fixed with the use of behavior modification and potty charts...nor was it something that laxatives, stool softeners or enemas can remedy in any real way.  Not only that, but left untreated, this condition evolves into MALT Lymphoma -- YES, I DO MEAN CANCER. (Image 5) IMAGE 6 - Abdominal MRI, without and with contrast Here is an MRI image taken at Premier Diagnostics, without contrast and then with -- that big white patch with the squiggly lines (see Image 5) is where the inflammation started in the lower stomach -- the dark area to the right of the rectangle is where the backup of stool began. (Image 6) IMAGE 7A - Perilously full of stool Here is an image before the manual disimpaction...the red unlabeled arrow is pointing to stool in his intestines; indeed, all of the speckled areas in these images are stool -- enemas, a manual disimpaction, a colonoscopy can only only go up so far...so you'll notice there is an enormous amount of stool in his colon; according to the doctor, it was all soft, dark and feculent (foul-smelling). Such symptoms completely contradict a "behavioral withholding" diagnosis. Notice also how dilated his large bowel was -- there was so much stool that his body was unable to pass...filling it up and stretching his intestines almost beyond capacity. It was a life-threatening situation -- made even more dire when the doctors kept trying to shove MiraLAX down his throat while performing a series of enemas in rapid succession. My son grew SO ill -- they almost killed him there, and I'm not exaggerating even a little bit. (Image 7A) IMAGE 7B - Anatomy Same image, with organs and such labeled.  Notice how the kidneys began to be compromised...yes, helicobacter heilmannii feeds off of urea, and can cause urinary issues as well as stooling issues. If your home includes dogs or cats, think long and hard on any explanation that places a psychological blame on your child...doctors seem to blame patients and then parents when they can't figure out what's wrong themselves.(Image 7B) IMAGE 8 - Abnormal Rectal Vault filled with stool Sagittal (side view) CT scan performed at Children's Hospital in Colorado Springs.  Notice *how full of stool* his colon was - nearly to the point of bursting. His large bowel had begun to show signs of perforation, and honestly:  they almost killed him at the hospital -- not just from the Ativan, but from the series of enemas they so carelessly administered in rapid succession!!! Wow, I still weep when I think of what my son suffered at the hands of the professionals who practice medicine at Children's Hospital in Colorado Springs -- THESE PEOPLE ARE NURSES, DOCTORS AND RADIOLOGISTS...OR ARE THEY?  OTHERWISE HOW COULD SO MANY EXPERTS OVERLOOK THIS? (Image 8) IMAGE 9 - Do you really think someone can hold their poop in to this extent?? Another side view; I mean, think about it:  if your rectum was *this* stretched out...do you honestly think it's something you could cause with your mind???  HOW ABSURD. (Image 9) Image 10 - View from the rear THIS IS HOW DISTENDED MY SON'S COLON WAS FRIENDS:  IF YOUR CHILD HAS DARK OR STRANGE SANDY STOOL...IF IT COMES OUT IN THE FORM OF PUTTY OR "MUD PIE" AND ESPECIALLY IF IT SMELLS LIKE NO POOP YOU'VE EVER SMELLED BEFORE (HUMAN OR ANIMAL), YOUR CHILD ***CANNOT*** BE CAUSING THIS HIM OR HERSELF...NO MATTER HOW HOW HE OR SHE TRIED, NO MATTER HOW "AFRAID TO POOP" HE OR SHE MAY BE.  THE EXPLANATION OF MIND OVER MATTER IS BALDERDASH. ESPECIALLY IF YOU SHARE YOUR HOME WITH ANIMALS, ***PLEASE*** RULE OUT A GASTROINTESTINAL HELICOBACTER INFECTION BEFORE BLINDLY ACCEPTING ANY DIAGNOSIS OF "BEHAVIORAL WITHHOLDING" AND "ENCOPRESIS" AND ***ESPECIALLY*** BEFORE ALLOWING ANY DOCTOR TO OPERATE ON YOUR CHILD!!!! MY SON'S CONDITION WAS CURED WITH THE APPROPRIATE ANTIBIOTIC REGIMEN AND HIS STOOLING RETURNED TO NORMAL. IF YOUR DOCTOR DISMISSES YOUR CONCERNS AND REFUSES TO TEST FOR H. HEILMANNII, DO NOT ARGUE WITH THE DOCTOR; FIND AN INDEPENDENT TESTING FACILITY AND ASK FOR A "NON. H. PYLORI" TEST.  IF THERE IS NO INDEPENDENT TESTING FACILITY NEARBY, YOU CAN ALSO CONTACT THIS ORGANIZATION: HEALTH TESTING CENTER - TEST AT HOME THANK YOU!!!!