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| Tue, 11-01-2005 - 11:57pm |
A NAMI rep called me today & said temporary child custody can be done through the Department of Human Services. So I called 2-3 places today and was told unless I start to dissolve the marriage or start a legal seperation I cannot take custody. But because he's left the house with the children in my care I do have custody. If he comes to try to take them to call the police and let them know he is not of sound mind.
So I guess to proceed legal custody I'd need to look into legal seperation.
The NAMI rep also told me to call ahead to the treatment center and give them my story about dh so they will have a psych nearby so if dh agrees he can be mentally assessed as well. She also told me the next time I take him to the hospital to call ahead & have a psych ready to evaluate him as the ER & regular docs don't know how to correctly. She was saddened to hear about the recent ER trip when dh was even pulling the IV & stuff out of his arms, spraying blood everywhere, so he could run. The nurses even told me I could not go back there with him since he was so out of control - but yet, didn't find it necessary enough to admit him.
Oh well ... I'm going out tomorrow to buy my dh a 'house warming' gift for his new apt.
This is his favorite print & I called ahead to make sure it's in stock as other times I've tried to get it for him they were out. AND IT'S ON SALE!!! To get it matted & framed (32x24) is only $69.
http://store1.yimg.com/I/marinersmuseum_1846_20268549
I'm going to have them wrap the print with this page I wrote for dh, nicely formatted on some bluish-gray swirly paper (look at the photo, brings more meaning to the words):
YOU SURVIVED
You stood alone as it came from behind and enwrapped your entire life.
It appeared you would never escape as its force crashed upon your mind, body and soul. The moment appeared to be an eternity when in truth simply a fraction of your life.
Forever transposed even as it pulls itself back. Still the storm continues to throw its mighty arms around you. Grey and murk clouds your vision. Yet every collision is weaker than the last. It reverts from where it comes.
There is beauty in such peril. A new sense of oneself as courage found to face the impended threat. You endured – life over death. You survived and now you will thrive.
-- BLUE SKIES ARE ON THE HORIZON --
AND FOR MYSELF, AS I CANNOT FORGET ABOUT ME, I still have $100 on my birthday gift card so I'm going to go buy some new pants to fit my new weight (lost 15 lbs when this started). Even if I only fit into them for a little while I don't like looking frumpy now. This is so not me, I'm too thrifty. But I need to keep myself feeling good.
I still cannot believe with my post-pg weight last Dec I was squeezing into a size 12 & now, 10 mos later, my size 6 drown me. I don't think I've been in a size 4 since highschool. Oh well, enjoy it while I can - there is a lot of Halloween candy left, so it might be very short-lived.
Thanks everyone,
Bonnie
