ridecamp@endurance.net: Re: horse related accident

Re: horse related accident

Samm C Bartee (bartesc@mail.auburn.edu)
Thu, 7 Aug 1997 15:21:17 -0500 (CDT)

> With the way the world is these days, be glad the medical staff is asking.
> What if the lady next to you doesn't have DIMR, and actually is a victum of
> abuse? Aren't you glad those people are doing their jobs for her sake?
> Really now, aren't you just embarresed over how you got your current boo-boo?
>
> Actually, I relayed the "no, for the 4th time" comment to a social worker I
> work with, and I said "at least they were doing their jobs" we both laughed.
> She is the head of our abuse team here.
>
> So, please, don't get on us for asking over and over about your boo-boo's,
> maybe the lady next to you wasn't so lucky. Abuse is more common than you
> think.
Becky and others:

I know how common abuse is. I lived with it for a short period of time
many moons ago...Noone ever questioned why my lip was always busted either
then...however, now, some social workers go overboard with it. My
training partner--weights not horses--just had one of her retinas
reattached. The nurse and a social worker questioned her for over 10
minutes about her husband and was he abusing her. She is a powerlifter.
she lifts huge amounts of weights and she told them this. She is not
abused, if she were, she would more than likely be dead as her husband is
also a powerlifter and extremely BIG! I am glad that nurses, social
workers and such go out of their way to help women, I wish someone had
been able to help me earlier than I helped myself, but there are some out
there that take it far too far. That incident with the nurse and the
social worker left my friend feeling raped by them, not her husband.
It was almost like a case of since her was big and she doesn't look like a
man then he must be beating her up every day.

samm--sorry to post off topic...

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