Mine, too. And the looking down to the left really set my meter off! The question seemed to throw her off, maybe she wasn't expecting it. Compared to Mark's quick answer, when asked the same question, it is very strange. She seemed to be uncomfortable about being asked that, like she really didn't want to answer, but had to form the answer in her mind before she did, and that is way, way odd! I've had problems with some of her statements, but never had the reaction I felt today when I watched her. I don't want to say she was lying, but something was truly not right with the way she responded.
When my son was 4 I had to rush him to the hospital with a broken nose and broken arm. It was kind of my fault, as i had seen him and his friend jumping up and down on the couch, and I asked them to get down, but I continued what I was doing first, before I went in to get them down. And in that split second my son fell face first onto the coffee table and then onto the floor, landing on his twisted arm.
[ they had just come from a Bday Party at a kids gym where they were on trampolines and they had a lot of sugar and soda. So I should have realized he was going to pretend he was on a trampoline and do exactly what he did.]
Anyway, at the hospital they sent the social worker in to interview my DH and I because of his broken bones and his black eyes from the broken nose. He looked like he had been beaten up. And the poor kid kept telling the doctor that he 'fell off the trampoline.' But we don't have a trampoline so they were confused.
Anyway, I felt horrible and I felt really guilty. And so when the social worker looked me in the eyes and very seriously asked if I had anything to do with his injuries, I stammered and choked and paused awkwardly and my eyes welled up and I could barely answer the question. My DH looked at me with eyes as wide as saucers because he could hardly believe how poorly I was answering the question. I had already told him exactly what happened but now I was flubbing up this interview big time. Thank goodness we did not have any prior incidents or I probably would have been written up.
Eventually I gained better control and attempted to explain the situation, that he had been jumping on trampolines for a few hours, ate a lot of sugary treats on an empty stomach, then came home and treated the couch like a mini-trampoline. And she still looked at me sideways a bit, but she talked to my DS, who confirmed he fell from the couch. Which was hard for the doc to believe because his injuries did not look like they were from a fall. It was because he jumped and lunged and then fell face first.
Anyway, my point is, I believe that ER feels very guilty about sending her son on that trip. So when asked if she involved, she feels like she was, imo.
