I’m sorry this happened to you.

Here’s what you do.

Got to the post- click to EDIT. Erase your post and just type in some nonsense. Keep that up for a day or maybe less, then come back and delete the post.

Haha I thought this too. Hopefully it really is and not some very naive girl!

Keep it that way.

I have a daughter your age. I’d not like her on here. Just never post any info that could lead others to figure out who you are or where you live.

Reddit can be fun and there are lots of interesting subs, but it can also be dangerous.

Ha! Don’t worry, they are thinking of themselves plenty!

Won’t add what others have already suggested, but maybe I can offer some reassurance.

I’ve lived here 20 years and only twice have the humans in my family had an issue- and by issue I mean finding a tic well before it was embedded. We do use OFF brand tic/mosquito spray when we know we are higher risk of encountering tics, but never for just around the yard.

We have animals so unfortunately they have had them (esp if I lose track of their preventative monthly med dose schedule). My dog ended up with a latent anaplasmosis infection but never had symptoms, and no longer tests positive for it. Key here is making sure you don’t let the dose schedule lapse, and it shouldn’t be an issue.

Welcome to NH.

Ok I’m that case I would not recommend southern NH- your commute will be a nightmare even though miles wise it’s not terrible. Traffic down Rt 3 to 128 is basically a road to hell.

Where do you need to commute to?

Well here’s the thing- some of these kids are not being held there for placement to Hampstead. They have been cleared by the ED doc and the psychiatrist, but then mom or dad or foster family don’t want them back. So they sit there under a “social work hold” bed until DCYF finds them placement.

I speak of this being a first hand person involved in an ED. So the situation isn’t just waiting for a mental health bed because it’s been established they don’t need one. If this were an adult patient we just discharge them to the street, but we can not do that to a minor.

As a former CASA and close friend to many foster parents, I got to the level of “I can’t even”… and I didn’t deal with nearly the case load case workers have.

IIRC Ribsam was thought to be the breathe of fresh air this department needed but in the years since it seems worse.

My specific question is how does the department justify ER placement of kids in their custody? There have been several cases I know of in which a child is dropped off at an ER by a parent who can no longer handle them, CHIPS doesn’t seem to work, and now there is no where else to put them…. And the kid sits in an ED for weeks if not longer.

Dude don’t get the street stuff. Laced with fentanyl and other shit.