We are in crisis again. Please pray that Louie's mental illness respond to treatments.

Amen

<small>[ February 23, 2003, 12:57 AM: Message edited by: Pepperband ]</small>

oh..I'm sorry to hear this. <img border="0" alt="[Teary]" title="" src="graemlins/teary.gif" /> Sending prayers and hugs your way.

What's going on? How are YOU doing? How are you dealing with things? e-mail me.

I know this, Louie is so fortunate to have the family that he has. He couldn't have had more supportive parents.

I'm praying for strength and peace for your family.
~Susan

I had only a few hours of restless sleep with nightmares .... so, I guess, I'm doing OK considering.

Later ... have stuff to do.

I emailed you. It was returned!

Did you block me? <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="images/icons/shocked.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="images/icons/shocked.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Confused]" src="images/icons/confused.gif" />

<small>[ February 18, 2003, 06:33 PM: Message edited by: Susan ]</small>

Of course not!

He's officially a runaway .... manic and off his meds. <img border="0" alt="[Teary]" title="" src="graemlins/teary.gif" /> <img border="0" alt="[Teary]" title="" src="graemlins/teary.gif" /> <img border="0" alt="[Teary]" title="" src="graemlins/teary.gif" /> <img border="0" alt="[Teary]" title="" src="graemlins/teary.gif" /> <img border="0" alt="[Teary]" title="" src="graemlins/teary.gif" />

Mail was returned again! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Mad]" src="images/icons/mad.gif" />

Looks like I'm gonna have to start calling you! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Frown]" src="images/icons/frown.gif" />

Well .... today was .... interesting.
Bottom line is .... son showed up at his school this afternoon to see his girlfriend. We were called by the police who had advised his school of the missing person's report .... and we took him to the ER. The car ride was like Mr. Toad's wild ride adventure .... kiddie locks in place, he realized he could not jump out at the red light. He started throwing things in the car, kicking, grabbing his Dad .... we pulled up into the ambulance area horn blarring .... and I started yelling "security!!!!" .... with the country nervous on high alert .... this got immediate attention.

So, after psych eval in the ER ... son was placed in an ambulance and driven to the psychiatric hospital, about 5 miles away.

Here's the really odd part.... on the way to the psych hospital, son's ambulance was in an accident in an intersection, struck by a car, and another ambulance had to be called for the ambulance!!!

He's OK, cuz he was strapped in the gurney and he did not get bounced around much. he spent another 4 hours in a different ER being evaluated for injuries related to the MVA. He says "My back hurts like hell" .... but, he is the drama king currently, and the ER doc says he's fine.

I'm so exhausted!

whew...I'm glad to hear everything is ok.

I've been worried about you! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Frown]" src="images/icons/frown.gif" />

I'm sure you need to get some rest. Tomorrow is therapy session?

Ohhhh..or is he presently admitted to hospital for evaluation?

<small>[ February 19, 2003, 10:19 PM: Message edited by: Susan ]</small>

He's being held on a 72 hour hold in the psych hospital .... but, it will probably be longer.

H and I have a therapy session today outside the hospital. The therapist is an adoption issues specialist.

You've got mail. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="images/icons/wink.gif" />

I'll open my private mail from home. I managed to get to work today! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />

I also sent you some *funnies* from my work email that my boss sent to me.

Hope you are rested. I'm gonna get you to smile today! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Razz]" src="images/icons/tongue.gif" />

Pepper:

I'm so sorry to hear this! Our nephew behaved similarly when he was around 15 or 16. He and his sisters were in a county home for a while because his parents were DV'd (dad is a paranoid schizophrenic living in his van, mom is a manic depressive, so far as I can tell) and his mom had threatened to kill them and herself over the holidays about 10 years ago.

Nephew was put on meds to calm him, because they thought he was dangerously violent. We didn't feel that way, and maybe because we didn't treat him that way he started to respond. He stayed in a county home for quite a while (a couple of years, I think), and we would bring him home every other weekend or so for visits (his mom and dad almost never visited him), and he lived with us for a year and a half while he finished high school.

He's 23 now, and he and his sisters are living with their mom and her new H. He's doing much better now. He's a calm, considerate young man, too. He's taking computer classes in JC, I think.

I think he just needed to find a focus, which took a while (while he was pretty rebellious most of the time). Once he did, he started to shine.

I hope this helps a tiny bit.
best regards,
-Qfwfq

Pepper,
I'll include your family in my prayers. Hope you get some rest. Hope he does better.

SS

The psychiatrist in the hospital just spoke with me. Louie has been off his medication for more than a month, pretending to take it .... and tossing it away. Hence the ugly mania and psychosis.

They are going to start a new medication today. Anti-psychotic and mood stabilizer.

keep praying.

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Louie has been off his medication for more than a month, pretending to take it .... and tossing it away. Hence the ugly mania and psychosis.
</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Do you have any idea why he would do this? It seems that he would want the medicine to feel better.

Did you see the progression as the medicine was getting out of his system?

We are still praying.

Can you go and visit him while he is there?

I sent part 1 of my story to you.

Have a good day today, Pepperria. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />

Susan I won't visit him until tomorrow. By then, the new medication may have calmed him down. He says horrible things right now that I do NOT need to hear.

The problem is, he feels so good on the medication, and although the side effects are minor, he thinks he can go off the med cuz he feels "normal".

We can't have him home unmedicated. And, right now he can't be trusted to stay on his med.

Showdown of the boundaries is about to happen.

Mr. pep says you are probably stopped from sending a piece of email that is too large for our server to handle.

I have a new email addy that I'll send you pretty soon .... he says that can handle the bid load.