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Well... this sucks...
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 10:49 amMy sister emailed me this morning. The family dinner this weekend has been indefinitely postponed. My oldest niece (age 36) tried to take her life last night. She didn't succeed. She's in ICU.
I'm handling it pretty well, because truthfully, I'm not surprised. The only thing that does surprise me is that it didn't happen sooner. She's bipolar and ... been in a slump for a while. I had hoped she'd pull out of it. She's in therapy, and her mother and her husband kept assuring me that that, plus the medication, was making a difference. Except the medication is tearing up her gastrointestinal tract, and dissolving the enamel on her teeth, thus causing nearly constant pain.
*snort*
Like I said... I'm not surprised. Though it would have been awfully nice to have been proved wrong this time.
I'm handling it pretty well, because truthfully, I'm not surprised. The only thing that does surprise me is that it didn't happen sooner. She's bipolar and ... been in a slump for a while. I had hoped she'd pull out of it. She's in therapy, and her mother and her husband kept assuring me that that, plus the medication, was making a difference. Except the medication is tearing up her gastrointestinal tract, and dissolving the enamel on her teeth, thus causing nearly constant pain.
*snort*
Like I said... I'm not surprised. Though it would have been awfully nice to have been proved wrong this time.
