text: My name is Melissa Diegel and I am the mother of childrenua I was once a small business owner and directed a successful preschool in Goodyear Arizona for yearsua Looking back now I realize that I once seemed to enjoy the regular American lifeua However running a business was proving to be difficult as my childrens health was declining and so I decided to close my business and focus more on my familyua Before I knew it both of my daughters became critically ill both requiring feeding tubes surgeries and bowel clean outs because their colons did not want to work anymoreua Hannah my then year old was having trouble walking seeing and going to the bathroom and things were out of controlua It was in May of that the MRI showed a large brain cyst pushing on her brain stemua Yes you read that rightua I could not believe it now she needed brain surgery on top of everything elsennNevertheless that is not even what this article is aboutua You see if it ended there that would be enough to our life storynnNo You are coming into our story when all hell has broken looseua You see on April th the most horrific thing happenedua My little girls were taken away from me by the hospital and given to CPSnnBoth girls were inpatient at Phoenix Childrens Hospital and were being treated for bowel impactions In March of I asked to replace Kayla age and Hannahs age Gi doctor after Hannah was suffering from home treatment complications and the GI doctor Dr Siaw chose not to return any callsua While waiting for the hospital to replace that Gastroenterologist with a new doctor Hannah ended up in the Hospital again this time with such a severe impaction her large and small intestine was so impacted liquid contents were coming out of her stomach the wrong wayua Unfortunately the next day her newly fired GI doctor came on shift for a day stretchua As soon as the Hospitalist told me that her fired GI refused to run any more tests and provide more than basic care for Hannah including nutrition I filed a formal complaintua When all was said and done Hannah went approx days with minimal nutrition like fasting because of the medicine it took to clean out her colonuannApproximately weeks into the hospital stay I left the room to go get a soda for Kayla and was greeted by a social worker in the gift shopua She then escorted me to a room in which there was an officer and several other peopleua They took a statement and then said they were escorting me to my car and that if I came back to the hospital they would arrest meuaua It was that day that I learned that that they were claiming I medically abused my childuannI believe the doctor acted out of retaliationua We also asked for a second opinion while inpatient they the doctors and CPS said noua We asked to transfer hospitals our insurance said yes and the hospital said noua Now my girls are stuck in the system and are being harmedua The same doctor who ordered for the feeding tubes to be put in the one I fired has now ordered for it not to be used in Hannahua In addition Kayla was using hers just hours a day instead of hoursua I was just informed he has ordered for both girls to stop using their tubes and he wants them to be removedua Both girls have a diagnosis of gastroparesis delayed gastric emptying confirmed by a nuclear scanua The removal or nonuse of these tubes could be life threateningua No tests were done on the girls that would show suddenly why they would need to be removednnIn addition a geneticist that had just recently transferred from Boston Childrens Hospital to Phoenix Childrens Hospital had recommended a series of tests be run on the girls just weeks prior to the girls being takenua This coincidentally is the same hospital in which Justina Pelletier was held captiveua Some of the tests the geneticist wanted to do were for deletion syndrome along with a possible smooth muscle disorder connected to Kaylas C deficiencyua He also suggested that some kids with mitochondrial disorder have a congenital disorder glycosylationua Many other specific tests such as small bowel biopsies were recommended as welluannPlease help us spread public awarenessua Thank younnuauauauauauauauaua For more on our story please visit us at wwwjusticeforthesisterscomnnnnWorse yet is the fact that we are not the only family this has happened to Phoenix Childrens Hospital really can turn into a parents worse nightmare Is has for dozens of parents I have talked to Educate yourself follow our story