He’s Threatening To Withhold His Daughter’s College Fund Unless She Starts Managing Her Medications Better To Treat Her Sickle Cell Disease
Some younger kids and teenagers don’t understand the importance of taking certain medicines routinely.
For instance, when I was a tween and would get prescribed antibiotics when I got sick, my mom always had to stay on my case and make sure I took them at the right times until I was better.
One man is trying to get his teenage daughter, who has sickle cell disease, to take her medication more responsibly. Now, he’s threatening to withhold her college fund money until she can prove to him she’ll take her medicine diligently.
He’s 48-years-old, and his daughter is 17. She was born with sickle cell disease and has been receiving treatments since she was a baby. His daughter’s medical journey has taken a toll on him and his wife, as they would travel to the ends of the earth to get her the treatments and medicine she needed.
His daughter is supposed to take medications daily, and as she’s gotten older, he and his wife have been trusting her to take the medicine on her own without any reminders. This is important to him, especially because his daughter will soon be moving out and going to college.
“[We] would only check if she took her medications once in a while, and she seemed to be handling it perfectly,” he said.
“Or so we thought. I am the one who buys my daughter’s medications [and] I have to replenish the stock every other month or so. I keep the boxes in a cabinet in my wife and I’s room [and] my daughter just comes to get them when she needs them.”
A few days ago, he checked the medicine cabinet and noticed his daughter still had a box of medication left to take. However, according to his schedule, a box shouldn’t have been left behind.
When he confronted his daughter, she denied missing any doses of her medication. He knew she was lying, so after arguing back and forth for 15 minutes, his daughter finally admitted to missing does.
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“She said that she didn’t [have] any pain, so it wasn’t a big deal,” he recalled.
“It is a big deal. She should know more than anyone how much pain she [gets in] when [this] happens. Sometimes, she can barely move without crying out. I am genuinely scared for her because she wants to leave the house when she turns 18, but I don’t want something to happen to her because she isn’t responsible enough to care for herself.”
He then told his daughter that if she couldn’t prove that she was responsible enough to live independently and take care of herself, he wouldn’t give her any of the money he and his wife had set aside for her college fund.
“She got angry at me and said I couldn’t do that and that it was unfair,” he added.
“Truthfully, I know I can’t hold her back, and I don’t intend on keeping the money. I just wanted her to understand how important it is for her and us that she is regular with her meds.”
Would he be wrong to withhold his daughter’s college fund, or is it a good incentive to get her to care about her medication?
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