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.
>>