Oh my word. If you don’t want to hear it…don’t go there.
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Hoping the family of a certain CC member that has been waiting two years is made whole very soon.
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He works hard and well and puts in countless hours for your organization during his “free” time (evenings, weekends, and often vacations), and you’re treating him like that? I’m feeling a mix of stunned, saddened, and furious, and it will be innocent folk who end up getting hurt the most if he walks.
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Your mother is 100% wrong to involve you in getting your father into rehab after 20 years of drinking too much. And you are wrong to leave my son for the holidays in order for her to not be alone. (she won’t be! regardless! of where you are!) It’s not your job to fix them. It’s not. Learn how to build a boundary before she drowns you. This is why your siblings are “distant” – it’s a safety boundary they learned to make. I’m so sorry we are far away.
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I’m saying it here because I’m so afraid something will go wrong and mess it up.
IT’S OFFICIAL! I don’t know when the announcement will be made, but families have been informed.
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Good job, MIT!
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Sometimes I want to post Effin Birds memes in response to posts, but I don’t want to get kicked off here.
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Thank me for the win, haha. I woke up after 4am, saw the game was tied, and managed to get back to sleep. No way was I going to jinx it. 15 innings and shades of Randy in 2001! They did it! Let’s go M’s! True to the blue? Refuse to lose? Yes!
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Me, me, me. Ramble, ramble, ramble. I, I, I.
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Happy Day!
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My husband and I took our ill son up to our cabin this weekend. It was so wonderful! He was talkative and engaged, and frequently volunteered to help out. He had a sparkle in his eye and his old sense of humor.
Great, right? 
The reality is that the six-month anti-psychotic injection he took five and a half months ago is wearing off. For some reason, as it STARTS wearing off, he seems 100% normal, like when he was 17. That phase lasts only a couple of days, though, and then he can spiral downward if we don’t catch him in time. I guess the good news is that we know his cycle now and can react quicker. His doctor gives him some extra oral meds to carry him over. We order the injection the minute Medicaid lets us, and his doctor makes a special effort to administer the shot immediately (not easy since he lives in Massachusetts now and our PCP’s office says they can’t do it for liability reasons).
It breaks my heart that DH still doesn’t “get it.” He is convinced our son is getting better. Hon, he won’t get better unless they come up with some new miracle drug. But we’re fortunate he’s doing as well as he is and still has some good days.
Tomorrow night I’ll start attending an eight-week Zoom seminar titled, “Ambiguous Loss: Living with Grief Caused by SMI.” I’m hoping it helps.
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“I’m sorry for doing whatever that thing is you said I’m doing" is politician-level apologizing.
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As I type this, a father I know is dealing with what he calls “anticipatory grief “ His son just passed the two year mark since his brain cancer diagnosis, and he is quickly nearing the end of his fight. He has shown incredible courage in his battle, and he benefited from research that is no longer being conducted due to lack of funding. One situation makes me sad; the other makes me angry.
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I am already sick of Christmas commercials.
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We just returned from a cycling trip. We met a couple there, and the husband had recently been diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s. The wife was not quite 60, and I’m guessing the husband was not 65. It was very sad, and once she shared that with me I could tell something wasn’t quite right with him. I fear something similar happening to me, bc my mom died at 70 with severe dementia. Celebrate every day after a certain age, because you never know what will happen.
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What does it say about you that you and the business that you run when you exclude and fear the press? Got anything to hide? 
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In case anyone is wondering, it takes 44 minutes to download 30,000 emails from a server and another 41 minutes to delete them. That was more than I bargained for when I hit delete.
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I guess I’m the wicked stepmother because I think you are losing it. Regifting a gift that your father gave you–not even changing the Christmas ribbons??? Then telling him there wasn’t a wall in your house where it would fit??? Wow. Great birthday present. The homemade applesauce from your wife was all you needed to bring.
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Safety and power of people to all today. 
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