Ok, so this is a continuation of our little incident with BM taking SS6 to the ER for his temper tantrum.

First we found out that, per the hospital, it was legal for BM to have the hospital bill DH as the one financially responsible because she had paperwork proving that she is only the NCP and apparently she can name DH as financially responsible because of that. Needless to say I am pissed, but there doesn't seem to be anything I can do about it.

So we received our first bill of $139.00 that was just for the ER triage, since, per the hospital SS6 was not treated for anything, he was just triaged and then BM took him home. BM is trying to refuse to pay her half of that bill because she is under such financial hardship at this time due to missing work while she had SS6 over the summer and because she is being sued for to pay for car repairs after she blew the transmission out of a friends car while using it and then proceeded to refuse to help pay for repairs and blame her friend for the car problems.

So, fast forward a few weeks. I felt like there were more bills to come from the hospital, and I was right. We received a bill for $759 for a level 3 mental health response. DH called the hospital this morning to demand to know what on earth this bill was for, as we had been told by the hospital that SS6 had not been treated for anything and had in fact been fairly well behaved what at the ER.

According to the hospital and what they say is on SS6's hospital paperwork, when BM brought SS6 into the ER, she immediately began screaming hysterically "Help me, help me" "I can't handle this, I need help" "Someone please help me" and so on, threw herself on the floor and continued screaming wordlessly and thrashing around. SS6 was crying and was obviously upset by his mother's behavior. So, because of her behavior they signaled for what they called a level 3 mental health response, which pulled all available resources to the ER waiting room to straighten out BM. She had to be sedated and given pills. Since SS6 was there and involved in the incident (by standing there crying) we have been billed for this level 3 response.

I am so damn angry. Seriously. This whackaloon acts a fool because her six year old decided to be a brat and now we are paying for it? DH was saying he called his lawyer and was waiting to hear back from him, but that there was a chance we would be stuck paying the bill, as BM is already denying that she knows anything about why we got this bill and that she won't be paying her half because of financial hardship, and then just take her to court to get the money back. I told DH that I don't care how much money we have to spend I want to take her to court, because I put money down that she knew exactly what she was doing when she threw that fit and got there us billed for it. I also bet that she was just attention and drug seeking and there was nothing actually wrong with her.

I want so bad to get for DH to get those hospital records to see if we can use them to help get Lazy McCrazy out of the picture. As much as I look forward to SS6 going to her house for the weekend I cannot with good conscience want a child to go to this lunatic unsupervised.