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    jay Guest

    Mom Charged With Denying Son Cancer Meds

    SALEM, Mass. -- A Beverly woman faces charges for allegedly withholding cancer medication from her 8-year-old son.

    Jeremy Fraser, who is autistic, was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2006. He was treated and went into remission, but the cancer has returned. Jeremy's doctors said that would not have happened if he were on his medications.

    Prosecutors said his mother, Kristen Anne LaBrie, 36, failed to fill more than half of those prescriptions. The boy's father, Eric Fraser, said that he is outraged.

    "There was no medication found in his system for his at-home chemo that was supposed to be given to him at night," Fraser said.

    Doctors and Salem police hold LaBrie responsible. They said she has not filled the boy's prescription since last summer and she canceled or delayed hospital treatments. Now instead of being in remission from non-Hodgkin's with a 90 percent chance of survival, he has leukemia with a 10 to 20 percent survival rate. Treatment has stopped on the advice of doctors.

    "I am beyond the point of being angry and being mad. Right now, I am taking care of my son and enjoying every second I spend with him," Fraser said.

    LaBrie was released on personal recognizance after Monday's arraignment. Phone calls to LaBrie and her attorney Tuesday were not returned.

    Fraser's father and sister are helping with Jeremy's care.

    Fraser said that he had to stop seeing his son last year because every contact with his former wife was volatile.

    "If I had those answers, this would be a lot easier for me to handle. This is something I am going to take to my grave," Fraser said.

    Fraser now has full custody of his son. He said that right now, Jeremy's life is a waiting game and that every day is a gift.

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    I hope they charge her with murder if he passes away. I am glad he is spending his remaining days with his dad.
    Wanna see my grandkids?

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    What a psychotic woman! I cant believe she would want her soon to die like that. How awful. It sickens me to read stories like that. Some people should just not be allowed to have kids.

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    Flowergrrl Guest
    Quote Originally Posted by jay View Post
    Fraser said that he had to stop seeing his son last year because every contact with his former wife was volatile.
    I find that hard to believe.

    He wasn't allowed to see his son for a year and he did NOTHING about it?! I think the father is as much responsible as the mother... Unless he's disabled.

    He's just trying to save his own ass for being as neglectful a parent as she is.

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    I read this in the Boston Globe this morning and was beyond horrified. She fought the ex for custody and then turned around and neglected the kid when he needed her most. Sounded more like a power struggle than a real need to keep her son's safety in mind. She seems like she got overwhelmed, and rather than asking for help, she just went into denial. _She_ says the father just dropped out of the whole parenthood thing for a while, _he_ says she made it impossible for him to maintain a relationship with the child. It's a shame one or both of them (depending on who you believe) couldn't have played the adult before it got to this stage. Poor baby.

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    What was the Mom's reasoning for stopping the meds??

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ratgrrl View Post
    I find that hard to believe.

    He wasn't allowed to see his son for a year and he did NOTHING about it?! I think the father is as much responsible as the mother... Unless he's disabled.

    He's just trying to save his own ass for being as neglectful a parent as she is.
    Yep, exactly.

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    Sounds like she didn't want to be strapped with a child of Autism, and cancer and what a great way to get even with her ex husband.
    Everytime my brother wanted to see his kids by his first marriage this woman would call the cops and say all kinds of shit. I used to have to go with him so he could see them without her calling the cops. Of course she denied all of this in a custody hearing , that took 6 months to get to court. There are people that can stop you from seeing your kids. If she was not calling the cops and saying he threatened her she would scream at him the whole time he was there. I saw this time after time.
    My brother mortgaged his home that was paid for and spent over 300k to finally get those kids away from her and then it was not over. It isn;t fair to say that a man who does not have the finances to keep fighting an ex wife or a woman. is lazy and a shit father. You have to have the money to get an attorney to fight this crap.
    My brother in law who had his wife take off with a Hells Angel and took 4 years to find his kids , every cent he made he used to go look for these kids. He lived at home with his parents to be able to spend this money on PI's. Then after he did find them, she WON custody. It then took 2 more years for him to be able to see his kids because she took off after lying to the courts that she was done with this guy and was staying in the area. She was gone a week later. Only after she got a bad dose of some drug did this biker show up at his mothers house and drop off the kids did he finally get them. His ex is still nuts. How many people do we know that have the money to do these things and fight for their kids only to keep on losing?
    We have no idea what this kids dad was going thru with a woman who was tring to kill their son.

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    We just had a similar case here in Detroit. For like three weeks every time someone would shove a camera in this insane woman's face she would start running her pie hole about the injustice of it all.

    What ever, STFU and give the kid their medicine.

    (It wasn't a religious thing - she was just bat shit crazy)

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    Could she not afford the drugs maybe?

    I don't know how I feel about the father. At some point you have to set aside your shit and work together for the good of your child. If you cared enough at one point to marry someone and have a child with them, it shouldn't be too much to be civil.

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    What happens in the US if one can't afford drugs and don't have insurance? I live in Canada so not sure. TIA

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    Quote Originally Posted by cachluv View Post
    What was the Mom's reasoning for stopping the meds??
    I'd like to know the answer as well. Sounds like she was pretty conniving herself. And his Dad isn't an angel is this matter either. Whole situation was pretty f'ed up I'd say.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cachluv View Post
    What was the Mom's reasoning for stopping the meds??
    I'd like to know the answer as well. Sounds like she was pretty conniving herself. And his Dad isn't an angel is this matter either. Whole situation was pretty f'ed up I'd say.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rucyco2 View Post
    We just had a similar case here in Detroit. For like three weeks every time someone would shove a camera in this insane woman's face she would start running her pie hole about the injustice of it all.

    What ever, STFU and give the kid their medicine.

    (It wasn't a religious thing - she was just bat shit crazy)
    More info: The mother in Detroit was attacked by police for refusing to allow her child to take psychotropic medication she claimed that was causing unwanted side effects.

    I can understand that to a point but this woman never met a camera that she didn't love and seemed to be more about the pity for the mom than what the kid might or might not have been going through.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jacksmum View Post
    What happens in the US if one can't afford drugs and don't have insurance? I live in Canada so not sure. TIA

    Many of us just do without. Generics helps a lot , but not everyone can take them and they aren't always the same as. Sometimes you can get assistance from the company that makes the meds. Sometimes you can participate in studies. Sometimes you are just SOL.

    Basically, you have someone that works for an insurance company decide if you can take meds or not. I can't tell you how many doctors I've heard complain about that.


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    Quote Originally Posted by okidoll View Post
    Basically, you have someone that works for an insurance company decide if you can take meds or not. I can't tell you how many doctors I've heard complain about that.
    Yep. Plus the deductables are going up. Some that used to have a $35 co-pay are now $75....and our insurance is pretty good.

    Another fun one is that if you go to the hospital for something around here, security escorts you to the cashier to pay your deductable before you leave the hospital

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    Quote Originally Posted by jay View Post
    SALEM, Mass. -- A Beverly woman faces charges for allegedly withholding cancer medication from her 8-year-old son.

    Jeremy Fraser, who is autistic, was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2006. He was treated and went into remission, but the cancer has returned. Jeremy's doctors said that would not have happened if he were on his medications.

    Prosecutors said his mother, Kristen Anne LaBrie, 36, failed to fill more than half of those prescriptions. The boy's father, Eric Fraser, said that he is outraged.

    "There was no medication found in his system for his at-home chemo that was supposed to be given to him at night," Fraser said.

    Doctors and Salem police hold LaBrie responsible. They said she has not filled the boy's prescription since last summer and she canceled or delayed hospital treatments. Now instead of being in remission from non-Hodgkin's with a 90 percent chance of survival, he has leukemia with a 10 to 20 percent survival rate. Treatment has stopped on the advice of doctors.

    "I am beyond the point of being angry and being mad. Right now, I am taking care of my son and enjoying every second I spend with him," Fraser said.

    LaBrie was released on personal recognizance after Monday's arraignment. Phone calls to LaBrie and her attorney Tuesday were not returned.

    Fraser's father and sister are helping with Jeremy's care.

    Fraser said that he had to stop seeing his son last year because every contact with his former wife was volatile.

    "If I had those answers, this would be a lot easier for me to handle. This is something I am going to take to my grave," Fraser said.

    Fraser now has full custody of his son. He said that right now, Jeremy's life is a waiting game and that every day is a gift.
    Someone from that hospital - his social worker, his doctor, or his clinical nurse consultant - should have been following up to make sure that the mother was complying with treatment and medication. That is their job.

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    I remember hearing about this and as a father who lost his daughter to cancer this sickens me.
    Her Dr's tried all the conventional drugs and when she relapsed the advanced druds didn't work, the experimental drug worked but she relapsed once again and if they started chemo again she would have died instantly because her heart was weakened from the chemo.
    I was after them to find new drugs but it was too late. Cancer won.
    To this day I'd rather have her with a weakened heart than being in my present situation.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jerseysucks View Post
    I remember hearing about this and as a father who lost his daughter to cancer this sickens me.
    Her Dr's tried all the conventional drugs and when she relapsed the advanced druds didn't work, the experimental drug worked but she relapsed once again and if they started chemo again she would have died instantly because her heart was weakened from the chemo.
    I was after them to find new drugs but it was too late. Cancer won.
    To this day I'd rather have her with a weakened heart than being in my present situation.
    I'm so sorry that you lost your daughter, Jersey.

    Working in a kids hospital, I've seen some awful things but cancer is the worst, IMHO.
    Last edited by Pat Bateman; 05-06-2011 at 06:15 PM. Reason: typo

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jerseysucks View Post
    I remember hearing about this and as a father who lost his daughter to cancer this sickens me.
    Her Dr's tried all the conventional drugs and when she relapsed the advanced druds didn't work, the experimental drug worked but she relapsed once again and if they started chemo again she would have died instantly because her heart was weakened from the chemo.
    I was after them to find new drugs but it was too late. Cancer won.
    To this day I'd rather have her with a weakened heart than being in my present situation.

    You don't have to explain, I totally have been there myself and as an advocate to my brother for this...I made it many years before his even showed up...and the things we thought would help didn't help and the ones we thought wouldn't did but they figured this out too late...
    Last edited by bustakita2001; 01-10-2019 at 11:13 AM.

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