domestic violence....

ok, so earlier this week i had a client who had all the signs of being a victim of domestic violence........black eye, missing tooth....her newborn was 6 weeks early....and had just been released from the hospital on a special formula (which triggered our visit)...seems she needed an emergency c-section...and the date of the c-section was curiously close to the date she told me she got the black eye and lost her tooth.....only she blamed her 19 month old toddler....claiming he hit her with a cordless phone.......yeah, right......when she left the clerk asked me how the eye happened.....and i was surprised by her reply to the cordless phone story....seems the woman andher spouse have a history of fights.....sometimes she loses, but sometimes she wins.....'wonder what her husband looks like.....knowing her he probably got the worst end of that fight....'...omg......what sort of people physically fight when there is a baby's life at risk......are they crazy, drugged-up, or just plain mean........sadly, the infant may have brain complications due to being born early (and to everybody in the home smoking like there is no tomorrow).....and will have a brain scan soon......too tragic for words.......