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Posted 07-17-2015 at 10:19 PM by Witchz


Ok so today I am still upset about my mother and her never ending problem with drinking. She escaped the place she had been at for 3 weeks after being released from the hospital where she was for 15 days after I took her to the ER. The reason for the trip was caused by her inability to walk – her calling me daily saying she is so sick she needs to go. Had bruises all over from falling several times in the last few weeks- couldn’t eat any food for over a week without throwing it back up. Was having a new issue with controlling her bowels and bladder – was sick from the wine she tries to drink – was very weak and was showing symptoms of alcohol neuropathy. Her blood sugar was either very low or high (rare) and she couldn’t remember to take it or her insulin. My step father was there when I showed up to drive her to hospital and was staring at her with a look of disbelief and distain on his face shaking his head from side to side. She was sitting sideways in chair in her bedroom with the same clothes on she was wearing a few days back had not combed her hair or bathed in days. He told me to drive her in her Porsche should she decide to go to hospital – saying that he was going to meet my younger sister and her 10 month old baby for dinner and would be back in a few hours. Adding that she hadn’t eaten in days and that he doesn’t know what to do with a person in her condition – that she is a “real piece of work” He then put down his glass of red wine on the dresser and thanked me for my continued support and effort with her since the rest of the family is pretty much done with her including himself. So once at the hospital after a scene in the waiting area she was admitted for high levels of ammonia in her body because of her liver that is starting to fail. I know that this means she is going to be detoxing for the next several days there as she has done this several times in the last two years at this hospital and a few others near by. She has done this because of the seizures she has when she tries to quit at home and at detox centers and for a few other reasons (medical) at least 10 times in 2 years. Each time it is harder it seems taking longer and her seeming like she is a brain damaged demented person who will not be able to come home but rather will be living in a facility for her remaining days her on earth.

Luckily she manages to snap back but the last two times were extremely hard and longer – so when she was released thank God this time the hospital said she could not go home as they didn’t feel she was safe there. So they made my step father pick from a few choices of assisted living and behavioral health places so she could be released. So he had me go with him to look at the one they said they thought was her best choice – he wanted me to look at the place and see if I approved. This was a new thing for him since he did not ask my opinion the last time when he put her in assisted living across from hospital and it was terrible there and they were not equipped to deal with her at all. So they let her go home after only 3 days. Anyway I agreed to this place because it was the only place that promised to be able to contain her 24x7 and insured us that she would not be able to get any alcohol and be fed and would get better. Upon her arriving there she was not even able to stand up to go to the potty chair (a few steps from her bed) was not eating only weighed about 90lbs and was delusional beyond belief. Well they did what they said and she was walking in 2 days and was trying to get out in a week. When I went to see her after their week without visitors she was walking dressed with her hair combed and make up on. She was still a little weak but majorly improved and the biggest and best was she was sober. This is something that my step father and her could not manage to maintain even with my help in the past for more than 2 days after she would be released from hospital. Granted she thought she was in a dump (her words) but this little house with only 4 patients had been a miracle to me and far from a dump. Well worth the $5,000 for 30 days – only problem was that she only made 2 and half weeks before she escaped and refused to go back to the house with the caretakers. This is a problem because it is not legal to forcibly keep her or make her go back there.
Now she has been home for 5 days and my step dad is going out of town this weekend for a few days to golf with his brothers. So I plan on staying with her while he is gone (leaving the rest of my family at home alone again ) not sure why I try this every time with her – prolonging the inevitable. Maybe I hope that it is to prolong her life and just maybe one of these times she might make it to the other side of this and never drink again.
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