I was served in the hospital lobby after my son’s tonsillectomy. His father wants supervised visits for me. The allegation is that I’ve been giving our son medication without authorization. He attached a photograph of a prescription bottle on my kitchen counter. The label has our son’s name, the prescribing surgeon, and the date—it was filled that morning, at the pharmacy inside the hospital, forty minutes after the discharge instructions he also attached, which say to begin the medication immediately.
Both documents are in his own filing, four pages apart. I sent everything to my attorney, expecting him to tell me it was a mistake. Instead, he asked me whether I had ever spoken to the surgeon’s office by phone. I said yes, but only after the surgery. Then he showed me a letter the surgeon’s office had written without me even asking. In it, the surgeon mentioned that she’d received a phone call in March from someone claiming to be me and asking questions about our son’s medical history that I already knew.
I called the office myself. They pulled the call record and told me the person had given my full name, my son’s date of birth, and information that wasn’t publicly available. But the voice wasn’t mine. More importantly, the call had been made from a number that wasn’t associated with me. The surgeon’s nurse had documented the conversation because the caller had asked whether certain medications could “make him sleepy enough that he wouldn’t fight a visit.” That sentence had bothered her enough that she’d flagged the account.
Then my attorney found the number in the court filing. It was my son’s father’s number. He had attached the prescription photograph as evidence that I was administering unauthorized medication, while his own documents proved the medication was prescribed, filled at the hospital pharmacy, and ordered by the surgeon. But the phone record raised a much bigger question: why had he been pretending to be me months earlier? The surgeon’s office gave my attorney the full call log, and there was one more entry from the same number—a call made the day before he filed for supervised visitation.
