Respectfully snipped from
otg's post:
10/5/94: Came in for checkup, doctor notices scar on left cheek. She'd been hit accidentally by a golf club when the family was in Charlevoix. A week after the accident, a plastic surgeon was consulted. No injury to cheekbone. Beuf is told (at this visit) that she's getting along with brothers and older sister. Wearing pullups at night because she's wetting bed. Patsy completes developmental questionnaire, and says there are no aspects of JonBenet's behavior or sex education she needed to discuss, and also notes JBR has no fears or phobias.
5/8/95: JBR falls in Alfalfa's food market, lands on nose, not broken.
12/95: Trips and hits head above left eye. Stuffy nose, bad breath, coughing.
5/96: Bent nail back on fourth finger, left hand, in another fall. Swollen and painful, but no bruising. Ibuprofen recommended.
We now know the 10/94 note was not the result of an accident, but was 7 year-old Burke hitting his 4 year-old sister in the face with a golf club.
[And I know kids can be clumsy. Jonebenet appears very poised, graceful, and non-clumsy, IMO]
But if one reviewed the medical records of a
grown woman who died as a victim of a
violent homicide, and they noticed that she came in 4 times in the last 2 years with reports of being "accidentally hit in the face with a golf club"
and "falling and
landing on her nose",
and "tripping and hitting her head
above her left eye",
and "bent nail back in
another fall"...
Woman who dies of trauma to the head had reported 3 other instances of head trauma in the last 2 years. Wouldn't that raise flags that the woman may have been the victim of domestic violence, and died by those same hands?
Incidentally, as a child, my daughter once fell at our neighbor's house and broke 2 fingers (bent backwards) trying to break her fall. ER. Weeks of hand casts and hand specialists. As a newly walking toddler, my son fell into the coffee table and bloodied his upper lip/upper gums/nose. We took him in for a medical exam
and x-rays to make sure there was no facial/dental damage that needed to be addressed. Years and years later, same son fainted freshman year in HS and busted open his
chin. When you fall hard enough you need to call/see the doctor, the common injuries are to fingers/wrists/forearms (when you try to break your fall, those bones take all your body weight and bend back or break).....and chin/mouth/nose/...the part of your face that
first makes contact with the ground. How to you trip and
only hit above your eye? How do you land on
only your nose and
only hurt your nose?
I'm having a hard time picturing a child falling while conscious, with two hands and arms available to break her fall 'landing on her nose'. And after landing on her nose (soft part of face) having
no other facial or dental trauma to report. She went from an upright position to landing on her face, and only her nose took trauma? Later, she 'falls', and the one injury is
above her left eye. How to you fall from standing and only injure above you eye? No other part of face bruised? No part of your upper body/fingers/hand/arm corresponding to the side of the face that took trauma was bruised, scraped, injured in any way?
Why do the Ramseys call the doctor to report every little cough and sneeze....yet when her face was
bashed with a golf club (it left a scar, which means the skin was broken) it was not reported to their primary doctor? He had to ask where the scar came from months later when she came in for a check-up. And the only doctor they report taking her to see after having her face 'accidentally' split open by a golf club was a
plastic surgeon? A week later? No concern on the day of the incident there may have been damage to the facial bones beneath the wound? Eye trauma?
Nope, just worried about surface appearance, it would seem. The story of their life.
11/12/96: Runny nose and cold sore, sneezing.
Just curious. Anyone else in the Ramsey family get cold sores? Mom? Dad? They are caused by a herpes virus (and are contagious).
