This is another serious question - who was operating on a patient that obviously didn’t have the conditions that would require the operations? It sounds like a serious breach of ethics on the part of the surgeons. The whole thing is heart-wrenching. The daughter should have been taken away from this monster by social…

Just reading the quoted description of “interventions” made me sick to my stomach. Who the fuck were the doctors that were doing this to her?

i know. i couldn’t even get into it.

From past experience I can say 100% that is rather my kid be around a stoned person than someone on painkillers like oxy, even if it's for a legitimate need.

I am a parent and I tell other parents that it’s okay not to like all of parenting. In fact, it’s perfectly normal to loathe entire portions of it.

You did read the author’s husband was home and sober, yes?

I’m hoping the environment around stoners will change as legislation grows, so hopefully children of stoners won’t have childhood sads or be embarrassed that their parents smoke.