<p>Snowball, I totally agree; I don’t get it either.</p>
<p>snowball, I also never understood how she was paid money because her children had learning disabilities. I have not heard of that (though that doesn’t mean it is not possible but I simply am unaware of it and found it surprising). </p>
<p>NSM, I totally got why Nadya was very anxious in that call. I would be too. I didn’t find that itself to be outrageous but it was more that she was very out of control and not helpful in any way with the operator…she had no rational judgement in that ordeal. I understand being panic stricken, however. I can think of a few moments while raising kids (including even college age) where I felt in a panic about a situation where I wondered about their safety (specific situation) but I surely would have been able to give facts to an officer if it had come to that (never has).</p>
<p>I understand her being frantic over a missing child, but I don’t understand the “I’m going to kill myself” over and over and over.</p>
<p>I know we didn’t get assistance with our disabled son…and he is considered multiply handicapped. He did begin to receive social security benefits when he turned 21, because he’s unable to work. There are programs he’s involved in, to help him try to work, because he would love to…and because he is in that program (hoping to work), there are many services unavailable to him/us for him. What he gets in benefits is kind of scary…if he were on his own in the world, I don’t know how he’d live on it!! Group homes in our state, have 800 ppl on the waiting list at all times. A child doesn’t get on that list until the youngest parent is 55, or one parent is deceased…but, then its a “crapshoot” about where they can end up…it could be in a home at the opposite end of the state from freinds and family. This is one system that is seriously messed up across the country.</p>
<p>I guess, hearing she’s been getting assistance for things like delayed speech, etc…makes my blood boil. I can understand for an autistic child…but, is she using the services that go along with that money? They will provide alot of other things that he may need if she is in the system. And from the looks of it, this is a lady that totally knows how to work the system!!</p>
<p>blankmind, I agree that her stating over and over “I’m gonna kill myself” was very over the top and in light of having young children right there with her. Crying and being a nervous wreck, I get. I don’t get how she had to be prodded numerous times to give basic information like the boy’s name, the location, the last time she saw him, his appearance and what he was wearing. If she was so nervous about her kid, you’d think she would be dying to get that information out to help. And it makes one wonder her capability in handling situations and that she will be alone with 14 little ones, which even the best parents would have trouble doing.</p>
<p>She is a wing-nut plain and simple. She cannot possibly take care of all those kids alone. She couldn’t take care of the ones she had. I thought I had distanced myself from everything then comes this ridiculous 911 call on every news outlet and here I am again. Morbidly fascinated. It’s just a tragic, tragic situation. I’m just hoping no one decides we have to legislate because of this idiot woman and make it more difficult for everyone else who needs fertility help.</p>
<p>For all of you smart posters who questioned Nadya’s decision to maintain artificial nails while around her premature babies, you might be interested in seeing this: [Nadya</a> Suleman: Eight tiny babies, 10 long fingernails - Better Life - USATODAY.com](<a href=“http://blogs.usatoday.com/betterlife/2009/03/has-anyone-else.html]Nadya”>http://blogs.usatoday.com/betterlife/2009/03/has-anyone-else.html)</p>
<p>papagena - I think SSD benefits may have changed since then. My sister’s twins were extremely premature, weighing only 1 lb at birth and required a home nurse, not a sitter, when they came home and my sister finally had to go back to work to keep the family’s insurance benefits intact. She received social security for several years and they’re now in school and doing well. SSD helped pay for nursing, therapy, prescription copays, special formulas for tube feeds, developmental testing, etc. not covered by ins., and many other supplies needed. It was a godsend but only lasted for a few years.</p>
<p>Not sure the scribbling on the walls is a reason to judge the mom. My good friend has an autistic son who writes all over the walls. It’s allowed and understood that he needs a way to express himself. Paint is cheap and his parents, both medical professionals, care less about the appearance of the walls in their beautiful home than about their son’s development and state of mind. It’s tough for people who don’t live with this to fully understand how priorities change. But my kids used to draw on the walls in their rooms when I wasn’t watching too. I had a very hard time painting over those precious first “stick” kitties and people when I repainted (and I think I left a few and just moved a dresser in front of them!) Maybe Nadya figures she’ll just repaint before she leaves. Who knows, maybe some of the drawings are hers, lol!</p>
<p>Has anyone thought about sending the fertility doctor the hospital bill?</p>
<p>There were a few wall scribbles here too – by our more artistic kids it turned out. My son has a great book about a boy who kept drawing on the walls and driving his mother nuts. One day his father, an artist by trade, took him to the beach to get out his energies because he was driving his mother nuts. The boy drew with a stick in the wet sand and the father realized that he was looking at immense talent. He then took him to his studio and gave him the tools to do what he wanted. The boy was Pablo Picasso.</p>
<p>And then there is Harold and the Purple Crayon.</p>
<p>OMG the octomom didn’t make headlines today…I am shocked…oh well I am sure she will do something to get back in the news tomorrow</p>
<p>Great story about Picasso, mimk6. And LOL B&P!</p>
<p>[News</a> - EXCLUSIVE: Octo Mom’s New Publicist Quits: “This Woman Is Nuts” | Usmagazine.com](<a href=“http://www.usmagazine.com/news/octo-mom-second-publicist-quits-200973]News”>http://www.usmagazine.com/news/octo-mom-second-publicist-quits-200973)</p>
<p><a href=“Publicist to OctoMom: I CAN Quit You!”>Publicist to OctoMom: I CAN Quit You!;
<p>2nd publicist quits. He says that she’s “nuts”.</p>
<p>She’s on welfare, but can afford a publicist? Somebody tear up this woman’s welfare check.</p>
<p>Anyways, anyone crazy enough to have 8 children on top of the 6 they already have is insane. My perspective on children is I only intend to have one, that’s how many I can raise properly. Quality, not quantity.</p>
<p>Apparently what she was looking for in a publicist was a mother, a father, a sugar daddy, and a publicist.</p>
<p>Things must have been really bad for the publicist to be so publicly turning his back on her. Clearly, the publicist is doing this because he wants to make sure that his past association with Nadya doesn’t run his reputation. I wonder if he’ll be writing a tell-all book.</p>
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<p>Wasn’t Octo-Mom an only child? (jk futurenyustudent, I know lots of only-children who chose not to have fourteen offspring.)</p>
<p>^^^ Ummmmmmm . . . . everyone I’ve ever known has chosen not to have 14 children.</p>
<p>Just as a side note, I wonder what the final number of children will be with the Duggars, as they say they are going to have as many as God is willing to give them.</p>