I've had a possessed ecig before -- and yeah, it's scary!....<snip>
... and there I was, trying to look composed as I danced around, pulled it out of my pocket, slapped my leg (to make sure that I wasn't really on fire) <snip>
That is so messed up about them calling you to come get your son! I'm glad they were able to bring him to you (safely), but what the heck would they have done had you not been comfortable with having him there? (I'm quite familiar with schizophrenia/family issues so this really concerns me -- I'd expect a facility, or a group home, to have a procedure in place if this were the scenario).
LOL Erised, I thank you for the belly laugh as I imagine you 'trying to look composed' while dancing around and thinking you might be on fire!! The scary part isn't funny, but trying to look composed really truly is, bless your heart!
I was just grateful that I was in the room when the possessed firing happened -- not sure what the outcome might have been otherwise, but it couldn't be good!
As for my son and the care facility's move ... well, I can't blame them as he was on a trial visit at the time, not officially admitted yet. The poor manager guy was profusely apologetic, but being overruled by the big bosses due to the Insurance Gods issues. So I couldn't blame them, but I still wasn't going to go get him, no matter what. This was one of those times that the Rules were obviously making people have to select a bad decision. I said to him, good grief, in the last snowstorm,
drug and grocery storeswere sheltering stranded people ... can't you "shelter" my son out of common sense, at least?
And talk about insurance issues, what would have happened if there had been a problem as the guy was driving my son home??? I don't even want to think about it, gahhh -- but ohh I would have been a tiger.
Luckily, my son's condition is officially called "negative schizophrenia" - in that he doesn't hear voices nor see things that aren't there. It's just that his higher-level thought processes are way off, despite his very high IQ. He is on his meds and stays on them, thank God. As he has spent time in hospitals over the years, and I have met other patients and learned more about the variations on this very complex disease, I am grateful that my son is not much much worse. It makes him much harder to treat, however. He doesn't fit readily into some of the more well-understood pigeonholes of this diagnosis.
He worked successfully for IBM for over 10 years, and when he got really sick with this about 3 years ago (we had to have him involuntarily committed), he was put onto disability with a functional income from that. It was the difficulty of 'pigeonholing' him that caused him to be thrown off of disability after 2 years. At which time he went completely off the skids. Insurance companies and disability-deciding professionals are not well equipped to recognize that someone who is coping well WHILE being on disability, so that their meds and living expenses are covered, are NOT going to do well if thrown off it. He could not function well enough to put his life back together after being supported in that way.
The cost of his medications, without insurance, is over $1600/month. The status of mental health care in this country is not good -- not good at all. In recent years, mental health hospitals, services, and care facilities have shut down, one after another. This has put many many people who are truly ill out on the streets. And so many of those folks do NOT have any family around, or what family they have is not in any position to shelter them. As you point out so well, depending upon a patient's situation, a schizophrenic can easily and quickly overcome the ability of any non-professional to live with or contend with them.
u just had to ruin my night
forgot about that
