<b>Chapter </b><b>122 </b>
A year after <b>that </b>they found him in Jeremy’s room badly beaten. Ion convinced Cole to go to the hospital. That’s when <b>the </b>jeaking found felt abor Cole’s hospital experience usually is. Ion ended up giving permission for Dr. Carter to use Jamie’s ount to pay for the tests that cute needed at i <b>care</b><b>. </b><b>The </b>injuries that Jamie heard about included a fractured skull, fractured eye socket, every rib was bruised or broken, and wild swelling in his brain, line body was covered in bruises in various stages of healing. His ribs were the same way as he had be his father’s punching bag for six weeks.
He stayed in the hospital for a week before he was allowed to stay with Molly and Jon for two. It was at the end of the second week with them that <b>lon </b>tank the beating that Charles had been itching to give Cole. My understanding is, unlike the full body beating that Cole seems to get, that the <b>alpha </b>stuck to just beating his ass.
Cole blew up on Jon before running off. He did return three dayster but he stoppeding to them for help after that ”
For the first time I feel that everyone finally understands what’s going on. How bad off this young man has it. Damian and Lucas have stopped eating, they are the only ones with food left on their tes. Their heads are cast down and Lucas is steadily rolling a carrot around. Patrick is gently rubbing <b>the </b>back of Parker’s head while Parker has closed his eyes. Dominic is holding Dasha who’s actively sobbing into his chest. I look to my right and see my own mate <b>Lilly</b><b>, </b>with silent tears of her own streaming down her face. Patrick and I are the only ones holding it together but I do feel I have finally made my point with him. He appears deep in thought as heforts his son beside him.
He keeps putting his hand up presenting a single finger with it before drawing it <b>back </b>and repeating. I’m familiar with the behavior and wait patiently for him to gather his thoughts and ask the question that is bothering him.
“I made the statement that it didn’t make sense for Cole to be punished for usations that are unproven. You responded that it didn’t make sense for <b>the </b>child with the most need to have the lowest medical budget. You also mentioned Jon Jenkins authorizing the use of Jamie’s medical budget when jon took Cole to the hospital the second time. Can you exin what’s going on with the medical situation and Cole? <b>I </b>know you mentioned nutritional and medical neglect. I also know every pack runs differently. Some follow what the humans <b>call </b>socialism, some are purely capitalist and some, like us, are <b>a </b>mix between the two<b>.</b>”
“I’m not certain of the social and financial structure that Alpha Redmen follows. ording to Jamie, every wolf in the pack is allotted a specific yearly amount of money for medical needs but he doesn’t know how much that allotment is or how that amount is determined. What he does know is that <b>what </b>isn’t used during the year is added to the next year’s budget. Jamie wasn’t ident prone so over seventeen years he had quite a budget built up. ording to Dr. Carter, out of Charles’s six kids, Cole gets the least amount of money and tends to need the most care. This puts Dr. Carter in a situation whereforting a highly stressed and scared wolf doesn’t happen.”
“I remember Ang mentioning him getting multiple shots of steroids in his arms and <b>legs</b>.”
“Not just steroids Pat. He receives high doses of Valium and any other medication that he can’t take by mouth. Based on what I’ve seen today, going into a crisis like this makes him vulnerable. That vulnerability decreases his ability to control his fight or flight response and essentially turns him, emotionally, into a child. He has no support system at the hospital so when he gets into a crisis situation, outside of the two times that I know Jon took him, he has to make his way to the main hospital on his own. I have found no record of him applying for or receiving his license to drive so I have to assume that it’s on foot and with the level of air constriction we found him with this morning, <b>I </b>can only imagine how agonizing <b>a </b>several mile walk to the hospital would be. Combine that with the knowledge that as soon as you get there you’re going to be ced in hard restraints with a catheter ced in your dder and a feeding tube up your nose into your stomach and the fear he disyed this morning is quite warranted.”
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