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Thank you for your prayers and for your kind support. I have never
experienced anything like this. I thought what I went through with my
husband was hard but these feelings and this grief is something I have never
before experienced.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2008 1:24 AM
Subject: Re: Attention Angel
> Angel,
>
> You did everything my wife and I did with our daughter. She was arrested
> twice and jailed twice but I refused her calls. She had three felonies
> and
> likely would have gone to prison for 10 years but she took all the drug
> and
> alcohol classes and she has been clean for a couple of years now. You did
> nothing wrong, Angel, but it is far from easy. I cried, couldn't eat, and
> my wife and I couldn't sleep off and on for many days that turned into
> months that turned into years. We pray your son will be ministered to by
> someone in the jail so he doesn't have to go through all that.
>
> Phil.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "angel" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 10:38 PM
> Subject: Re: Attention Angel
>
>
>> I am a real mess. When I first signed the complaint last Saturday at the
>> Jail. He phoned me from another part of the jail. He asked me to "get
> him
>> out". He called me a couple times while I was going home and we argued.
>> After which, his calls were collect. I don't have a conventional home
>> phone, rather I have a cell phone. If one has such a phone, one must set
> up
>> an account with a third party provider to be able to accept those calls.
>> After a couple unsuccessful attempts to call me, it took a while for me
>> to
>> figure out this separate account plan that was in place he stopped trying
> to
>> call at all. His last call was Tuesday evening. I found he was to be
>> released Monday morning. I arranged for the community transit to pick me
> up
>> Sunday to visit him at the jail. In order to get optimal service one
>> must
>> schedule a ride at least 5 days in advance. I got a post from someone on
>> another list from which I asked for prayer that his charges may have been
>> dropped. I called this morning from work to determine the status of
>> those
>> charges. They told me he had been transferred to another facility in
>> another suburb. Of course, it was too late for me to reschedule a ride
> and
>> to be sure of service. I called that jail. They told me my son would
> have
>> to make an appointment to visit me before they would allow me to see him.
>> The only way he could do this would be for him to make a collect call to
> me.
>> I refused to accept those calls earlier in the week. So, I don't think
>> he
>> will even attempt such a call. I gave him a bus pass but I gave it to
>> the
>> property person at the jail where he originally was. He doesn't know he
> has
>> a bus pass. The buses at his new facility are nearly nonexistent. I
> called
>> his cell today to find it is dead. So with no money he wouldn't even be
>> able to call the "ride line" to find out when or if there were any busses
> to
>> take him to familiar ground. He doesn't even know he isn't permitted
>> back
>> to the house. I arranged with someone to drive me to give him a calling
>> card so he can arrange a visit Sunday. I then will arrange with my
> friend
>> to pick him up Monday morning. I was just trying to give him some tough
>> love when I refused his collect calls. I said I would not pay a cent to
>> help him or to have him call so we can argue on the phone. Look where
> that
>> has gotten us both. I suppose I am not a very good parent after all. I
> am
>> just glad I called the jail where he originally was this morning else I
>> would have gone there to find him gone with no way at such a late date to
>> even go to pick him up at the new facility.
>> He would have been stuck there with no way to get to a familiar spot.
>> Our
>> Lord has just got to help me. I am not eating because I am not hungry.
> The
>> thought f food makes me sick. I can hardly work, and my previously fine
>> mobility skills are just going down the toilet because of the stress.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 6:11 PM
>> Subject: Attention Angel
>>
>>
>> > Did you get to speak with your son today?
>> >
>> > Phil.
>>
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