My very merry christmas and wonderful start to 2009.

I went to Rokeby (other end of Tasmania) to look after SIL & her 9 kids for christmas as her hubby had to work, she has a thyroid problem (took cancerous bit out few years ago) that is playing up & causing havoc with her latest pregnancy (contraception doesnt always work) anyway due to issues there I stayed longer to mediate, wean the baby & destress SIL, so daymo being thoughtful attempted suicide whilst i had 9 kids & no adult at home (sent her out once I had nephew weaned), so I despatched ambulance from afar & my sis went to read riot act to him. He is now of opinion cos mum didnt jump she doesnt love him, actually she is practising a touch of tough love that may get tougher if he keeps it up. he is getting plenty of attention from his grandparents who are taking him to drs etc tho he signed himself out of hospital before they put him in psych ward. If said grandparents hadnt agreed to pick him up maybe he would be in psych ward getting some sort of help. I had two friends die just after christmas cancer & old age .Then a scammer advised us that a friend who is ill had died & it was a bit much & the old waterworks exploded. They havent done that for over 20 years. The demon child (ok he is nearly 25 with mental age ranging between 2 and 17 ish) decided he needed to borrow money off me (thats the mum who doesnt love him) so invited me to tea where he is staying but I declined cos not fit to drive today. He actually bought tea over to me which was nice, got me to do forms for the dna test of his probable son & take photo of him to go on said form & left saying you will find a JP to sign the forms on thursday for me mum. I am very close to finding a shell to climb into except he would find me. Havent bothered to tell him my kidneys functioning at 25 - 35% of normal, didnt see the point. He will figure it out if I drop dead (no thats not happening soon they work just really slow & have to be monitored forever.) The good news maybe is gf mum is in harness to help her walk, I gather that hospital must think she will make enough of a recovery to be released at some stage, tho i don't think daymo & gf understand it may be with a fairly major disability similar to stroke damage. I presume she is off ventalator now. I may well disappear again as SIL is on weekly visits/blood tests til April when bub is due & hubby cant get time off so when labour starts I will be going down to babysit, I've suggested Easter would be convenient tho baby not due til 25th. I'm supposed to be relaxing & learning to PSP well I guess I can hope for miracles in the next week or two. It was quieter at Rokeby with 9 kids. At least TAFE/Polytechnic doesn't start til Feb but I was supposed to catch up on some stuff I didn't finish last year but with the changes the computer system is down for student. There endeth todays vent.

December 2008

I forgot to post in December, I went down south to my sister for a quiet relaxing weekend in the first week of December. Sadly while we are down there daymo's gf mum had major car crash and ended up in ICU. So my quiet weekend was spent sitting in ICU waiting room holding belongings while the family went in & out to visit her. Prognosis was not good as there was swelling on the brain & she ended up with an infection in the brain. She also has broken vertebrae & sternum. She has been placed on a ventalator & in an induced coma.

November what a month

Well Daymo has settled down a touch, he's back on his meds which i keep control of, he is ignoring the ex girlfriend & her antics & letting lawyers deal with determining if Luke is his or not. He managed to give me version 15 of the latest chest cold/infection but thats life. The good news is that he has a new girlfriend who he is very focused on at the moment. She is a shy girl who seems a bit fragile and Daymo is super protective of her. At least he is not thinking dark thoughts & wrapped up in his own little world. The other exciting news it that MAIB seem to think my broken ankle miraculously healed itself so I trotted off for a new bone scan & its still buggered so I will have an argument with them over my meds. The bad or good news depending on how you view it is the scan actually showed one of my kidneys has stopped working so I am having that looked at now, they've always been slow release due to problems with the way they formed but they were both functioning last time they were checked, that might have been 15 or 16 years ago. The other bad news is my nephew went to prison for a while & yes he deserved to go tho he probably should have gone into the psych part but he chose his defence strategy & his mum is now a total mess. He sould have been diagnosed when he was 15 but his dad said there was nothing wrong with him & wouldn't let her take him to shrink. At the moment he has been diagnosed with three psych conditions which are a rough mix but hopefully one day they will find the right meds to settle him a touch. Thats about it for this month. Ups & downs as usual.

Daymo's latest antics

Well monday arvo following a drunk uncles visit & lecture daymo's who was fragile following breakup with girlfriend decided that he would like to die on girlfriends front lawn again. So at about 10pm he took as much of his epilepsy meds as he could & the last of his happy pills. He texted me goodbye & i took the unusual step of not ringing the cops as it took 3 hours to find him last time. At midnight or so survival kicked in & he texted me to ring him. He was halfway to the next town, couldnt walk & was very incoherent. So I jumped in his car & went to find him, eventually spotted him got him in car & took him to hospital with a few stops for a chuck wasnt quick enough for one so i'm glad i took his car. Parked at the door of emergency dragged him in & said drug od, sat him in chair & went to park car more appropriately. Went back they had him somewhere to assess & i gave info on what i knew & begged yet again for them to section him (compulsory place in psych section). Anyway eventually they hooked him up to drip & took blood tests & i sat next to him for three hours watching him while they waited for tests & then psych to come in. He was about 6 times over his theraputic level of his epilepsy meds & they are toxic. So after i chatted to psych they admitted him & i went home for a sleep. His kidneys shut down as you do if someones not nice to you so he had to stay in hospital til his kidneys started & stayed working & he could walk. So whilst he didnt get put in psych ward he did find out how boring hospital is when your mum will only visit if shes knows youre not allowed out & you cant walk. He cant resume his meds til tuesday & has to see psychologist to try to deal with his issues. He is still a bit wobbly but his brain is on the planet he just has trouble remembering what day it is.

Introduction

Hi, I'm meadowlea. At the moment I am studying to become a Library Technician as I love books but hate writing essays. I am really into collecting tags and hope to learn how to do it in my summer break in a few months time. I am in Tasmania the small island to the south of Australia. I'm a mum of a 24 yo boy with problems, no hubby he passed away several years ago.