What's everyone up to right now?

[Nakara]

It's all a long story, but yes, I think she is. She has refused therapy at every turn.

[Little lunch]

I'm not sure where to post this but I'm on the verge of freaking out.

Just got a call from my brother. To make a long story short, my little sister and her baby son have been in and out of friends' homes and is now staying at my parent's house. She got in a fight with our mom (for reasons I'll never understand, she seems bent on copping an attitude towards our mom and acting like the consequences of her actions aren't her fault) before storming upstairs threatening to pack her things. A few minutes later she began screaming. My mom ran upstairs and found her grandson unresponsive and my sister screaming he wasn't breathing. My mom immediately started CPR, saving his life.

She went with him to the hospital. The police are talking with my sister. I don't know anything else. I don't even know what hospital.

I can't help but jump to horrible conclusions. Fucking hell this is my family! My little sister! My little nephew!

Without knowing the details, it sounds like life has been tough for your sister.
Regardless of whether your nephew's near miss or any of the trouble is your sister's fault, she's going to really need yours and your family's support right now.

I've actually just come from work where I spent the last three hours at the mental health facility with a client.
I'm becoming a regular, which is good because there are so many hot nurses there.
Apart from drugs and genetic predispositions, a very common denominator I've seen with a lot of patients is the lack of any family support or friends.
By the way, every family has problems, every single one.
It's just that mental health problems are harder to hide.
Good luck, I hope your sister gets well soon and I hope your nephew's ok.

[Nakara]

My nephew is, thankfully, back to being a bubbly baby. I still don't know all the details as to how he stopped breathing, though...I'm not sure I want to know...

As for my sister, I love her dearly, but SHE has chosen to make life rough for herself.

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My parents were strict and expected us to follow basic rules and would punish us (i.e. ground us, take away our phone, turn off the Wifi, etc) if we didn't, they were never abusive and mean--yet, that's how my sister acts, as if they're the worst people on the planet for daring to ask her if she's brushed her teeth.

She STILL throws tantrums, literally throws-herself-on-the-ground tantrums. That, or she'll punch a hole in the wall. All if she doesn't get her way. Oh, but if you were her friend, you never saw that side of her until you knew her well. THEN, if you were lucky, she wouldn't stab you in the back.

Eventually, at 17 she left the house and all but cut off communication. We only got bips and pieces as to where she'd gone. She'd moved in to her boyfriend's house at some point.

So of course we all became very concerned when we learned she was pregnant last year. She couldn't even take care of herself, let alone a baby!

Eventually boyfriend's family couldn't put up with her, so she started living with friends until they couldn't handle it anymore, and finally she came back to my parent's. And now, about a week later, this happens...

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As someone who suffers from a mental disorder I highly encouraged her to seek help, or at the very least to talk to me. Just talking about my anxiety has helped me recognize it's impact on my life, I just wished I could help her see the same. Never got anywhere.

[Angrboda]

Morning coffee. Trying a new bean. Ethiopian Yirgacheffe. (Gesundheit!) It's Target's generic brand, so it's a little cheaper than my normal morning blend. It's nice, but different. I don't know that this will replace Starbuck's Veranda blend for my morning coffee, but I'm glad I decided to try it. (An hour or two later, I just want to report back that I'm really liking this coffee. It's actually a little lighter than the usual morning blend coffees I've tried, and lacks the modest but significant acidity of those blends. Probably has something to do with them being blends which typically means including lesser quality bean to pad the margins to be made on their sale.)

[Jackalope]

Sweating the time until I go in for a root canal. Thank the gods for Halicion.

[Cod]

Just walked in from work, what an interesting and fulfilling day I've had (NOT)

There is only so much of this boring pointless shit that I can take.

[brewer]

Just walked in from work, what an interesting and fulfilling day I've had (NOT)

There is only so much of this boring pointless shit that I can take.

Just cause Cathooloo is going to the dentist we don't need to start the puns.

[Angrboda]

Eating lunch. Meals-On-Wheels today was chicken chow mein. It was a little plain as delivered, but a healthy splash of Teriyaki sauce livened it right up. It came with a generous sized egg roll on the side, but unfortunately I threw out the last of the orange sauce a while back because it was old. So I improvised with a spicy Thai sauce. I had mixed results. I had considered using Caribbean Jerk sauce first, but I was probably wise not to do so.

I realized earlier that I've got the two part American Experience documentary on George H.W. Bush on my server, so I'm thinking I'll watch that next chance I get. I've got reading to do for a meetup on the various insults to the truth we currently face such as alternative facts and fake news this evening, but hopefully I can get to it after the actual meetup tomorrow afternoon.

[Nakara]

So DCS is taking my sister's son away. She is inconsolable. My dad is in shambles. I feel so useless.

[Cod]

Untangling Christmas.

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Lights.