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Please tell him that he is getting a big hug from elsewhere.
Damn JW's.
Last night my dad tried to commit suicide
by cruzanheart 38 Replies latest jw friends
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orangefatcat
A huge hug for you and your father. It is so heartwrenching when someone you love desperatley seeks a way out of their pain. Your father sure does need lots of love and understanding. What insenses me beyond belief is the way the CO treated him after he felt lonely and depressed after your mom was in the nursing home. I think the CO has saw dust for brains. Someone ought to show him [CO] what your dear fathers cries for help almost cost him his life. Some loving batch of Christians. In other religions people would rally around your father and helped him and welcomed into their homes for meals and association with out any strings attached.
Any way honey, I am foaming off at the mouth and I need to see that it is you who needs to be comforted. Please accept my love and warm thoughts for you and your dad and for his quick recorvery. The dear soul needs all the understanding and love he can get. Let him know we care. Also keep yourself strong. Bless you both.
Orangefatcat
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outnfree
((((Cruzan and family)))),
I am so sorry. This all must be very difficult for you. I, too, have a relative who has tried to commit suicide...
Do your best to reassure him that he's wanted in this world is about all the advice I can offer.
I will pray for him (and you).
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ugg
oh my,,,,you are going through so much!!!! just know that thoughts are with you..and with your dad..
sending concern and hugs your way!!!
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Sentinel
Cruz,
I am so sorry to hear your news, but thankful that it "didn't work". Lately I've been thinking so much about the damage the WTBTS is doing to people. It would not surprise me at all if more distraught individuals went the suicide route. Sometimes it just hurts to live the way we live.
It's definitely a cry for help, and I hope that your dad will get the kind of assistance he needs to get rid of these "monkeys" on his back.
(((((((hugs)))))))
Sentinel/Karen
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cruzanheart
Thank you all for your sympathy, words of wisdom, and love! I really appreciate it. Dad is a little more coherent today - Big Tex went to sit with him for a while and I'll go tomorrow afternoon. We were right, that a large part of his depression is from seeing the hypocrisy in the organization, as well as what that stupid C.O. said to him. He felt worthless so decided to go out with a bang, and I mean that literally: he started an affair with a lady in his retirement home on Monday! I'm not supposed to know about this (Dad swore Big Tex to secrecy but fortunately my dear husband felt that I needed to know it and he knows I won't bring it up with Dad). We've decided that we have a rock star on our hands - he has a problem with drinking, drugs and women. I think I'll buy him a long wig and a guitar. Anyway, BT isn't sure Dad has abandoned the idea of suicide, so I'm glad he's in the hospital and we will help him through this. It relieves my mind that he's admitting to these feelings about the organization, because it will make it easier for him to break the code of silence and talk to the psychiatrist about religious issues. We are determined to help him through this one step at a time and I have every confidence he will be alright.
On a lighter note, we have also been hit with pestilence: our basset puppy has been diagnosed with scabies! Which is contagious to humans! Aaaargh! My boss says if I go home and find locusts in the back yard I'd better start running.
Love to all,
Nina
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Xandria
Awwwwwww Cruz :
I know the threat of Scabies.. eww shuddder !!! A friend of mine who worked as a cosmotologist caught the nasty critters. They burrow under the skin .. talk about annoying!!
Unfortunately, scabies live in long grasses and are a major pain in the backside to clean out of carpet and bedding. Like lice. ( I am itching writing this at the thought ) Soooo.. I wish you much success with Quail Lotion and so on.
Xandria
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cruzanheart
Thanks for the concern! Upon reflection and examination, however, I don't think it's scabies - the dip seems to be helping but no one else in the family, including the 11-year-old basset, seems to be itching. Big Tex is throwing up, but I think that's just a virus or a result of the Cowboys game this afternoon.
Update on my dad: He's doing better (translation: the pills have worn off and he wants to go home and start the cycle again). He had chest pains Friday night and the idiots in McKinney put him in the regular hospital and started feeding him morphine and Librium. HELLO!!! Didn't they read his chart that he was still de-toxing from the Xanax??? Well, yesterday I went to the hospital and raised hell, because Dad was happy as a clam with all the morphine they were feeding him. I called his cardiologist, who knows he really doesn't have a heart problem but does have a love of morphine (don't we all?), and he hit the ceiling, ripped the McKinney cardiologist a new one, and got Dad transferred back to the Psych Ward. This morning he called and said he wanted to go home, that he hated it there. We went up there, told him about the New World Order he was about to embark on, that included sobriety, NO Xanax, and a psychiatrist, and he meekly agreed. However, I get the feeling he was just telling us what we wanted to hear, so we're proceeding with extreme caution. He is excellent at lying and dissimilation - that's how he survived 54 years of marriage with Mom. IF there is a Paradise, and IF we get to talk to her in her right mind, we want to tell her that she was really right about him.
On a more pleasant note: Nanoprobe was back in town, so we had her over for lunch yesterday and had a wonderful time! She is a delightful friend!
Love to all,
Nina
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Xandria
Glad to hear some things went well. An other, I too would of thrown a fit over. Take it one day at a time and keep counseling up with your father just as a safety net. I agree with your feeling. Keep us posted.
((Hugs))
Xandria