It almost seems strange to go out in the yard now without the neighbor around .....I hope he is getting the help he needs.. I tell you schizophrenia is fascinating I have never been around anyone like that before and I hope I don't ever have to experience it again ..The mind is a amazing thing..
When I was in the hospital the night before I lost Tegan and Tayor I was in trendelinburg position it means the doctor orders to have you laying with your head tilted down.....I was also on magnisuim sulfate to stop contractions..
I am not sure what messed up my mind, but I laid there for hours looking at ants crawling on the ceiling. At one point I said to Randy and my stepmom that I had been watching the ants ..They said there were no ants up there ..
Somehow I thought the little black holes in the ceiling were ants and I was even seeing them move. It never dawned on me that something like that wouldn't happen in a hospital..Thankfully after I was told that they weren't ants I could tell it was just the little black holes and I didn't see them again...
Neighbors sister said that when he gets on his medication that he won't remember any off the things he was doing I told Randy that didn't surprise me as I was having a hard time remembering all he was doing :-/
Its just the strangest thing to see someone so normal got to that in such a short time..... I now really wonder how many of the homeless panhandlers are schizophrenics and not druggies who chose that life, you would never guess that my neighbor owns his own home and it not a druggie well as far as I know he is not he looked just like a homeless begger on the street.....
Its a real shame that if you have mental illness you are pretty much on your own, unless you have a family to help you, even then I am sure there is only so much that can be done ...
Randy stopped and let one of the neighbors know that neighbor was gone now.... That he was having some mental issues, the guys response "well, he just needs to get over it" Yeah dumbass just like people can just get over cancer or a heart attack umhum yeah, whatever So I have learned who on my road has some compassion and who has none..I also think he is a story teller, he was telling me last week that neighbor has been shooting off his gun everyday, I never heard it and neighbors sister said he doesn't have any guns..I believe her ......
I am enjoying hanging my laundry on the clothes line,taking out my trash running out to the car and all the other things a person takes for grated on a daily basis..
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LaDawn, I am so glad you're neighbor is being cared for. I had a good friend years ago whose oldest son was schizophrenic. Even though he had a home and medication, he chose to live on the streets would not take his medication. He didn't like how it made him feel. He made life very hard for his mom and younger brother. A good number of the homeless are mentally ill and reject offers of assistance because they don't want to be controlled in any way. We see a lot of it here because our winters are so mild.
Beau sends his regards... LOL
I agree, many people are very ignorant when it comes to mental illness and lack compassion that they would freely offer to someone with cancer or other types of illness. I hope he is getting the care he needs to get better and that he will stay on his meds this time.
Glad your life has some normalcy again.
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