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Mom Accused Of Stealing Dying Son’s Pain Meds

November 2, 2010 at 8:04 am by  

Pittsburgh, PA — According to police, 42-year-old Karen Remsing decided to help herself to a dose of her terminally ill son’s pain medications this past Sunday. Remsing, a registered nurse, reportedly disconnected a computerized intravenous injection tube supplying Midazolam to her 15-year-old son, and filled several hypodermic needles stolen from a hospital supply cart before injecting herself with the sedative. The loopy woman then tried to reconnect the IV tube back into the machine, but screwed it up, causing an air bubble in the line. Fortunately, the potentially fatal air bubble did not enter her son’s body. When hospital personnel entered the room and found Remsing passed out on the couch with blood on her clothing and bloody hypos scattered about, they realized what was up and properly reconnected the boy’s IV. The woman police she jacked her son’s pain meds because she was tired from not having slept in a couple of days. Oh, and she’s a depressed and recovering drug addict. She was booked on charges of of recklessly endangering another person, endangering the welfare of a child, possession of a controlled substance, criminal mischief, tampering with or fabricating physical evidence, possession or use of paraphernalia and theft by unlawful taking or disposition. Bond was set at $75,000. She has also been banned from Children’s Hospital – if she returns to that facility, she will be arrested and charged with trespassing. Well, at least she wasn’t smearing poo in the line, right?

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    • Zibarro aka Kryssa

      WTG, “Mom”!

      Poor kid. How fucking embarrassing to have that as a “mother”! Hope he has other family to comfort him while he’s battling this.

      She just truly disgusts me.

    • beatlechick

      And she was a registered nurse. I am just shaking my head because she had to have known that she would have been caught. Those machines sound an alarm if you move funny.

    • lisaznola

      She shot up before reconnecting him to his pain meds? “Hypos”? Stupid junkie bitch!
      She is JUNKIE then a ‘depressed’ (there are other kinds?) addict then nurse-ish (kind of since she has (had) the paperwork and we can add on a female who gave birth. (Not a mom….)
      Rats make better mothers than this.
      Even if she was exhausted and fiending she should have loved her kid enough to hook him back up before she shot up. Damn!
      Bad form and rotten manners, even for a junkie.

    • TARHEELS BABY!

      “The drugs made me do it” is not an excuse we should accept. Bad people do bad things, good people do not, regardless of how drug addicted they may be.

      I was addicted to OxyContin and then Heroin for years, I started off with a good job and a lot of saved cash, eventually both were gone, but no matter how desperate I was I didn’t steal or cheat anybody out of money, BECAUSE IT IS WRONG.

      The kind of person who steals to support a drug habit was a shitty person to begin with, the drugs just give them added motivation to steal, as they have a drug addiction to feed.

    • TARHEELS BABY!

      I don’t really buy in to the statement that the air bubble was “potentially fatal” unless it was ridiculously huge or the son was an infant… The common belief that injecting an air bubble into a vein will cause a heart attack is largely a myth, invented by the movies.

      I remember when I was being taught how to start an IV, freaking out the first time another student started one on me because a 6-inch long air bubble was in the line, eventually going directly into my vein. It was later explained to me that it is all-but-impossible not to inject somebody with an air bubble when starting an IV, and that it is completely harmless, as the air is rapidly absorbed by the vein before it gets anywhere it could do damage.

      The amount of air that has to be injected into a vein to be potentially fatal is a relatively huge volume, and it seems to me that it was the police’s opinion that this air bubble was potentially fatal… an actual nurse or any other medical professional worth his salt knows that this is largely a myth.