Calmness, finally
So, lots of things have happened, I guess, and now things are calming down. Today we moved our son from inpatient treatment to the residential facility where he will be staying for the foreseeable future. On the one hand, he loves it, he gets to play and have a great time, in fact when we went to say goodbye he tried to blow us off, he just wanted to play. On the other hand, we are not allowed to visit him for a week. We can see him next week at our therapy appt, but no visits until then. The only reason they are even letting us call him at night is because he is so young.
Well, I guess this opens up my schedule again, so I will be resuming my activities at HiH. I feel more settled about everything, and I guess I'm finally at peace with what is happening, at least as much as I can be.
In other news today, I got a call from my old neighbor. She is elderly, and most of her kids are assholes who are on drugs, or screwing her over in one way or another. One of the worst cases, who is abusive to his wife, and is high most of the time, and is in general a dumbass, has proven that fact. His wife was cheating on him, (I kinda get where she is coming from, having gone through it myself) and of course my friend is going to stick up for him, although he is in the wrong (he's her son, after all) but long story short, she put him in jail, finally. He was so upset, he jumped from the third tier of the jail yesterday. Yesterday all she knew was that he had broken his legs. She went to visit him today and found out that he shattered his heels, and part of his spine, and is now paralyzed from the waist down. I don't know what to feel about it, because part of me just feels that he deserves it for being such a dumbass, but another part feels bad for her because she has him for a son. I don't know, other than he brought it on himself, I guess. Am I being heartless?
Edit: I just realized I forgot to mention a couple of good things. One, my husband got a call from the local theater/film union, and they want him to work for the production of The Lion King for Broadway across America here in SLC starting tomorrow. He is guaranteed work tomorrow, and they might call him back after, depending on budget, but we are hoping!! So keep your fingers crossed that he gets called back!
Second, we got an email from my mother in law that she sent out to pretty much the whole family. It was good and bad, good because it turns out that they are paying for all of us to go to Lagoon (the local amusement park) and having a family day on Friday. Bad news is, first, Xander won't get to go, which makes me sad, and second, we hadn't really told Dan's brothers about Xander, I wasn't ready to deal with it yet, but Mom put it in the email, letting everyone know what was going on, and to give us their support, so now I get to deal with their reactions, and I don't know what to expect.
Okay, that's it for now!