Posted on 11/01/2015 6:54:40 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Tiffany Cherry only wanted the best possible care for sick baby. And despite the fact that her concern triggered an Amber Alert and sent her to prison, she has no regrets. After all, he’s getting better.
As WBZ News reports, Cherry had taken her two-month-old son Qavai to an emergency clinic in Pennsylvania, where a nurse told her that Qavai was dehydrated and told Cherry to take her son to an emergency room.
But as far as Cherry was concerned, there was only hospital she trusted to take care of her baby.
“I brought him to Boston because Boston Children’s is where he needed to be,†she told WBZ. “Everything in me told me ‘Tiffany, go get your baby to Boston Children’s Hospital.'â€
Dissatisfied with the care available in Pennsylvania, Cherry got in a car and drove four-and-a-half hours to Boston Children’s Hospital, widely regarded as one of the best in the country.
“I was not comfortable with the level of care my child was receiving. I would do anything for my children,†said Cherry.
At Boston Children’s, doctor’s diagnosed Qavai as having issues with his esophagus and white blood count. The dehydration issue cited by the nurse in Pennsylvania was a misdiagnosis from a nurse who, “looked at my son for ten seconds and didn’t know what she was looking at,†said Cherry.
Unfortunately, when Cherry left Pennsylvania without taking her son to the hospital mentioned by that nurse, she triggered an Amber Alert. According to the Boston Globe, Pennsylvania allows an Amber Alert (usually used in cases of child abduction) to be issued in situations where a child’s health or life is endangered. Though Cherry drove her baby to the ER—as instructed by a nurse—her decision to pick a different hospital led to her arrest in Boston. Cherry is currently in custody, fighting to get her children back.
“They are my life. I deserve them back and they deserve their mommy,†she told WBZ.
Cherry says that she’s especially protective of her children after the devastating loss of her first child, who was stillborn in 2009. Having them taken away from her now has been very difficult.
“It hurts. It hurts. It hurts,†she sobbed.
However, the news that Qavai is getting better made it all worth it. While Cherry says that she thinks Pennsylvania authorities “jumped the gun†on the Amber Alert, she would do it all again for her little boy. And she’s more certain than ever that she did the right thing.
“I’m so thankful to Boston Children’s Hospital may have saved my sons life,†said Cherry.
Cherry is now facing a number of legal problems as the result of her trip to Boston, but her first priority is getting custody of her children again. Her lawyer has argued that this was not a proper use of an Amber Alert, while others are hoping that the courts will see fit to reunite the devoted mother with her family.
“She is a great mother,†her niece, Tarshi Cherry, told the Boston Globe. “It’s her whole life.â€
Needs he bebby so she can keep on WICs and that extra buks on SNAP.....
I would love to read this article, but it doesn’t seem to be loading right.
Her son might have received entirely adequate care if she had taken him to the local hospital. On the other hand, if he had been critically ill, he might have died during the long drive to Boston.
Wouldn’t a judge see that she did the right thing & release her pronto, along with getting her children back? The nurse had no authority to tell her what to do, & she had every right to make her own decision. What is wrong with these people?!
Where’s the Daddy?
Your snarc is very misplaced. If I knew the doctor or nurse was wrong, and I could drive to a decent place to get them care, I would. No matter what it might cost me. Just because you have a pre-conceived notion in your head does not make it right, nor give you the right to spout it off like a moron.
This is an article where everyone and everything, including the atrocious writing, is wrong.
(Except that the baby is getting better).
I’m sure that there are going to be more details emerge on this story but from what Ive read so far she did everything right and the system did everything wrong (excluding Boston Children’s). Figures.
What was it to cause her to fixate on going to Boston, I wonder?
The woman is not a saint by any means.
I’d find that nurse and....
Maybe she’d seen a television program about it.
When one of my children is sick, we go to the corner emergency clinic. If the people there said, “You need to go to a hospital emergency room,” I would go to the nearest one (15 minutes away) rather than 3-1/2 hours away to Duke, even though it’s reported to be the best in the region.
This seems to be a “no harm, no foul” situation, but it might have turned out badly. It doesn’t appear that her son had a rare condition that was difficult to diagnose or treat.
So from whom did she allegedly “abduct” her child? Did the father have custodial rights as well and object to the trip to Boston?
Or did the incompetent nurse who almost whi misdiagnosed the baby (and apparently practices medicine without a license) claim the baby was “abducted” because the mother chose a different hospital than the one she told her to go to?
How did the nurse even know where the baby was being taken?
I would not drive 4 hours to take a child for whom I’d been told needs to go to the emergency room. Regardless of the quality, at that point stabilization, etc. would be on my mind - not the best in the world and 4 hours away. That stuff comes later.
Does anybody proof read before posting this stuff? The title makes no sense.
This seems to be the new style here at FR. Make a title comment about something, and then the “here’s what he/she/it did NEXT! [add video if available.]
The article you linked tells a totally different story. From that perspective, she didn’t take her child to the emergency room because she was afraid she’d be arrested on a variety of pending charges. Instead, she just took off, but because of the multi-state search for her, she eventually got him to a hospital.
The original article also doesn’t refute the information that the infant was dehydrated. It provides a reason (dysfunction of the esophagus) and another symptom (elevated white blood count).
They took her kid away.
Kidnapping under color of authority.
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