PROOF OOF ABUSE MEDICAL RECORDS AND WITTNESSES

Abuse and proof of abuse: On August 22nd 2008 I began having contractions and labor pains, I informed my Husband that our baby was coming and he told me “you’re not having a baby go back to bed”. On August 23rd my contractions and labor was steadily increasing I asked my husband to help me and try to make arrangements to get me to the hospital and he said “you’re crazy you’re not having a baby and would then leave the bedroom to watch TV downstairs. My nine year old daughter was left to help me because my husband refused. She helped in and out of the bathroom and with a bloody clean up. I called my doctor told him what was happening even though I was three weeks early I was sure I was in labor. My doctor told me to start to head to the hospital and he would meet me there, he asked me to call when I was on my way. I called my husband in the bedroom again and begged him to please call somebody to get to the hospital. He lay on the bed and laughed at me then he left the room. 45 minutes later I asked my daughter to check to see if he had contacted anyone. Ariel returned to tell me that he had not called anyone and was lying on the sofa watching TV as if nothing was happening. I then called 911 dispatch when I was talking to dispatcher Mr. Marshall returned to the room and told to hang up and he would try to call someone. It was 5:30pm now and he asked two neighbors and he called his boss Lisa Vanackeren she was unable to drive me to the hospital because she had been drinking all day and was unable to drive. I then tried 911 dispatches again Greg asked me to ask her if it was not an emergency if we would be strapped with the bill; she told us that we would be. I opted to not have an ambulance come get me because my husband was angry about the possibility of bill. I began to call a taxi service and when I was trying to get a taxi to our location I would have a contraction and stop talking and the dispatch would hang up on me. I tried to three times and then asked my daughter if she could talk for me, she said I don’t know how and then she went downstairs to where Mr. Marshall was in front of the T.V. again. Ariel proceeded to yell at her step-father you call a taxi and get my mother to the hospital. At that time Mr. Marshall called for a Taxi and I had him call twice more because 35 minutes had passed and I was well into transition and believed I was dying. (Come to find out I was). Once we were in the hospital Mr. Marshall suddenly wanted to help me walk and hold me during my contractions (when others were watching him). The nurses rushed me into a delivery room and contacted my doctor because I had been unable to do so. During examination we learned my baby was breach and it was policy to never deliver a breach baby naturally I was too far into labor for them to do a caesarian. The doctor that was on the floor didn’t want to do it and when the doctor came in the room he put his finger towards Gregory Marshall and yelled 10 more minutes and your wife and unborn child would have died. My delivery room had 17 members of the medical staff present during the delivery of my son. When he was finally delivered they immediately rushed him to the NICU, I was even able to hold him. After the staff had left the room my husband said well if I had gotten you here in time they would have cut you open so I were lucky it was the last minute. My husband did not even bother to say he was sorry. When I was questioned by doctors I lied to protect my husband about why I waited to get to the hospital. I don’t know why I did this but I found out later that my nine year old daughter was at the nurses’ station telling all the nurses and doctors the events that lead to the birth of my son. Two police officers came to my room and asked if I would like to press endangerment charges against my husband but I didn’t want to and explained to the officers that he had been under a great deal of stress which caused him act badly. Four hours after delivering my baby my family and I were standing in the lobby of the hospital, because my husband was going to a rental car which I had scheduled for the following day. He began swearing at myself and my oldest daughter when we told him he needed to take the two toddlers with him. He was angry because did not want to have to transfer the toddlers and their carseats from a taxi cab to a rental car. Mr. Marshall expected me to chase my toddlers around a hospital after giving birth. When insisted on taking my nine year old with him and she refused to go with him he was screaming “son-of-a-bitch and God Damn-it”, very loudly in the lobby of the hospital. Mr. Marshall went and got the rental car with our two toddlers but did not return to the hospital until the following day. My new baby was in the NICU for 10 days and once I was released from the hospital I was unable to visit him because Mr. Marshall refused to take any days off work, and I was not allowed to bring my other children into the NICU. I was forced to visit my baby in the middle of the night and on two occasions Mr. Marshall went to the bar after work, claiming his bosses wanted to take him out and celebrate the birth of our son. Gregory came home intoxicated and I was unable to go to the hospital, I was fearful of his ability to tend to our other children. I have contacted the hospital and have been able to obtain my medical records and the contact information for the Doctor that delivered my baby.