Rhonda I am glad your mom is off the breathing machine and I do know how you
feel with your family. I'd like to think my sis is doing better but I just
don't know We just need to leave our family in God's hands.
hugs
Lelia Struve email [log in to unmask] msn [log in to unmask]
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From: "Rhonda" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 9:43 AM
Subject: off the breathing machine
> Mom is off the breathing machine, but she can't talk, her throat is sore.
> We, some of the family and I have been trying to tell my dad that Mom
> needs
> to go to a drug treatment program straight from the hospital. My sister
> Amy
> who also has a drug problem doesn't think that is is a good idea,probably
> because she often got pills from my mother, she my sister that is, is
> really
> not suppossed to be around her girls who my parents h ave custody of:
> but... she is always around. It is all a big mess.
> Amy is like Chris out of control, and unlike Kathy, there hasn't been
> anyone
> to say "enough" loving another is hard, it's not all fuzzy feelings,
> sometimes it is saying "enough! this will stop, sinceYou will not stop on
> your own, or perhaps you can not stop, I will help you, force you to see
> that you need help"
> My sister is 34 and still acts as she did when she was 17, so it is good
> that you Kathy are trying to help your son now, I know it must be hard for
> you,
> praying for you, pray for us as well!
> I really hope dad gets Mom in to a rehab program, I'm really not up for
> this
> again!
> there is so much to worry about now, I just want some peace, some
> security...
> I just feel so tired all the time, I'm not sleeping well,
>
> Rhonda
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