However, I’m not sure how to respond when strangers in public notice something is clearly off. We now believe that this same person reported us to child protective services on the suspicion that our home was somehow medically unfit for our children to live in. This is an assumption and there was no real basis for them to think this if it’s true; child protective services never obtained a warrant to actually come search our home or ask us questions. I’m wondering if I should come up with a bare-minimum response to avoid the busybodies and others, like child protective services, getting involved when we’re already overwhelmed dealing with this as a family. -- Medical MamaDEAR MEDICAL MAMA: The stress you and Izzy are carrying doesn’t fall under the small talk umbrella.