Another med change pending

It seems like every time I get my crazymeds changed, I am unable to do anything for awhile, either because I get incredibly fatigued or because my fine motor skills (and some of the gross ones) go to pot.

Well, I saw my doctor today and he’s changed my medicines again. I’m stopping one of my medicines and starting an entirely new one tomorrow, one I’ve never had before.

It had to be done, and perhaps this med change won’t cause any major side effects. I’ve read all sorts of horrible things about it online that make me nervous, but I know if I call the office and voice my fears they’re going to be like “take it anyway, your doctor gave it to you.”

So if I disappear for a week or so, that’s probably what’s happened. But hopefully it’ll be a smooth transition.

Make-a-List Monday: Family abductions of kids who are now adults

This list is for kids who were abducted by parents or other relatives, and are now over the age of 18. In some of these cases, the MP has siblings who were abducted also and are still minors. Many of these children have been missing for a depressingly long time. I did not include cases where they believe the abductor killed the child after taking them.

I should emphasize that just because the kid is now an adult and still hasn’t resurfaced doesn’t mean they want to stay missing or were fleeing an abusive situation. Many times children are lied to by the abductor and told that their left-behind parent is dead, or that the left-behind parent was an abusive, horrible person and they’re better off without them.

Many victims of family abduction are young, below school age, and thus they wouldn’t have much, if any, memories of their former life. Even in cases of older children, it’s still possible to poison their minds against the left-behind parent. You have to consider the idea that children want to believe their parents have their best interests at heart. Especially in a situation where they have no other influences, it can be easy to convince them of things that are not true and alienate them against the other parent.

There’s also the issue of international abduction cases where the child/children were taken to a country (such as, say, Saudi Arabia) where women are not allowed to travel without the permission of a male relative. So, even if they wanted to come back, they can’t.

There is one case I know of where a girl was abducted by her father and taken to Mexico. She was very young at the time and her father told her that her mother was dead or had abandoned her, I can’t remember which. I don’t even remember her name. When the girl was 17, I guess her father’s conscience had been bothering him because he finally told her the truth about what happened, that he had stolen her from her mother and that her mother was alive and looking for her. The girl then traveled to the United States and eventually did locate her mother.

This happened like ten years ago — I know because remember writing about it on Websleuths and I haven’t been active on there in ages. I wrote that I was glad that the father owned up to what he had done and gave his daughter a chance to reunite with her searching mother. Other posters on the forum were angry at him, saying “I can’t believe you’re defending this man, he did something horrible.” Well, I wasn’t exactly defending him, and I freely admit that yes, he did do something horrible. But at least he eventually tried to do right by his daughter and his ex-wife, which is more than can be said for most abductors in such cases.

1. Jehad Ahmed Abuhamda (was 13, is now 18)
2. Berania Teresa Agapito (was 11, is now 18)
3. Wendy Agapito (was 14, now 20)
4. Gloria Aguilar (was 13, now 21)
5. Amina Ashraf Al-Jailani (was 9, is now 20)
6. Layla Ashraf Al-Jailani (was 7, now 18)
7. Sarah Molouk Amiri (was 3, now 26)
8. Cameron Jeffrey Anderson (was 12, now 28)
9. Kyle Nicholas James Anderson (was 9, now 25)
10. Rachel Marie Anderson (was 13, now 30)
11. Yareli Marlem Barajas (was 12, now 19)
12. Anastacia Marie Argentova-Stevens (was 5, now 19)
13. Emad Ali Ben-Mrad (was 3, now 19)
14. Shoshana Kaila Black (was 2, now 22)
15. Reuben Bennett Blackwell II (was 2, now 23)
16. Halle Patricia Bobo (was 6, now 18)
17. Jacob Allen Bobo (was 9, now 20)
18. Ebrahim Bozorgi (was 6, now 23)
19. Zafar Bozorgi (was 1, now 19)
20. Miranda Elaine Budiman (was 4, now 22)
21. Angela Estella Burns (was 1, now 21)
22. Natasha Alexandra Augusta Carter (was 10, now 26)
23. Brittani Nicole Dolbear (was 3, now 22; today is her birthday)
24. Olivia Addison Edwards-Tuttle (was 8 months, now 26)
25. Sarah Raquel Elsafi (was 9, now 18)
26. Tariq Ahmed Elsafi (was 12, now 26)
27. Joseph Zachary Ernst (was 10, now 18)
28. Marcus Antonio Farina (was 9 months, now 25)
29. David Eduardo Gosnell (was 3, now 21)
30. Antonia Guerrero (was 12, now 23)
31. Stephanie Guerrero (was 13, now 24; tomorrow is her birthday)
32. Austin Cole Hernandez (was 4 months, now 20)
33. Ethan James Hernandez (was 2, now 18)
34. Leonid Jacobson (was 3, now 21)
35. Jesse Robert Kaslov (was 1, now 19)
36. Jewel Koranteng (was 2, now 19)
37. Mario Lopez* (was 6, now 18)
38. Sandra Lopez (was 11, now 21)
39. Sarah Anne Lord (was 3, now 22)
40. Bianca Isabella Lozano (was 1, now 23)
41. Ezra Lok Lui (was 2, now 19)
42. Brandon Mema (was 2, now 18)
43. Ray Preston Morrison IV (was 2, now 21)
44. Diana Judith Portillo (was 12, now 18)
45. Soomaiiah Jalaaluddeen Quariishi (was 7, now 23)
46. Kyle Ivor Rae (was 2, now 22)
47. Melissa Erin Reiter (was 1, now 25)
48. Andrea Michelle Reyes (was 1, now 19)
49. Alejandra Rivera-Romero (was 8, now 20)
50. Wesley Rivera-Romero (was 6, now 18)
51. Nadia Rougebianni (was 2, now 18)
52. Stacy Ann Kathleen Rudolph (was 13, now 29; today is her birthday)
53. Isabella Saileanu (was 2, now 18)
54. Domingo Sanchez Gonzalez (was 11, now 19)
55. Esmit Sanchez Gonzalez (was 15, now 23)
56. Deborah Lyyn Sanders (was 1, now 34)
57. Nicolas Marcel Santin (was 12, now 23)
58. Emily Michelle Sawyer (was 3, now 33)
59. Adam Osama Shannon (was 4, now 19)
60. Kamelia Maria Spencer (was 2, now 19)
61. Caroline Victoria Teague (was 4, now 19)
62. Bethany Maria Tiner (was 3, now 23)
63. Gabrielle Torres (was 12, now 21)
64. Vivian Aileen Trout (was 2, now 22)
65. Therese Rose Vanderheiden-Walsh (was 5, now 32)
66. Prathima Venkatesan (was 8, now 18)
67. Charles Jason Vosseler (was 3, now 33)
68. William Martin Vosseler (was 2, now 32)
69. Brianna Christine Warnes (was 2, now 23)
70. Takoda Tei Weed (was 6, now 18)
71. Tiffany Susan Westford (was 2, now 25)
72. Kelly Ann Yates (was 10 months, now 32)
73. Kimberly Ann Yates (was 3, now 35)
74. Christopher Louis Zaharias (was 3, now 32)
75. Lisa Mae Zaharias (was 1, now 30)

*Mario’s case was probably a family abduction; at least it stands to reason that it was. He and his three siblings were in foster care, with Mario and Joel placed in the same home, and the boys vanished together and their biological parents disappeared at the same time. (Mario’s brother has since been found.) He’s still classified as “endangered missing” though, and I don’t think warrants have been issued for his parents.