I spoke with her tonight and it seems that my assumption was all wrong. I told her how everyone was asking about her and how I was saying she is fine. She corrected me. She is not fine. She tried to work yesterday and could only stand it for 3 hours. She is still having severe headaches and can not bend over. The doctor injured her back doing the third spinal tap. Her pinky and ring fingers on both hand are still numb. This gal is really having problems. She has a doctors appointment on Wednesday so maybe she will learn more.

She will be here for Thanksgiving and is planning to stay until Sunday. That should give me some time to see what is going on. It will also give her a chance to get on here and say hi to all.

Now to another subject. Billy. Nothing new, except he decided to shave his head.!!!!
In doing so he cut his scalp a bunch of times and is admitting that it hurts!!




I am very thankful that his hair grows fast. I am not mad at him anymore, just worried. He has so many small cuts on his scalp, I am worried about infection. I have had him rub Neosporin all over his scalp. I am going to lose my mind!!!!

I know and I believe.... This too will pass.

The insane Granny,

Posted by me at 9:53PM PST

I can not believe the stress that teen relationships can bring upon a family.

Billy's girlfriend is a young lady (used loosely) that has more major problems than anyone needs. She is has fetal alcohol and separation anxiety. She has been in a mental hospital for about a year, then into a juvenile facility for shoplifting. Right now she has again violated her probation and is a run away.

This is the girl Billy claims to want to spend the rest of his life with. He has found out that she also has another boyfriend over where she lives and is on the loose in. I do not understand this at all.

Last night I had a real strong urge to go check on him about 12:30AM. We were all in bed and supposed to be asleep. Yeah sure!! I went in and he was not there. My heart just sank. I am completely worried that he will take off and try to find this girl. He has to protect everyone. Come to find out he had gone outside to have a cigarette. The entire household was upset.

There is nothing I can do about all this so I pray and talk. It is out of my hands.

Granny

Posted by me at 5:21 PM PST

Today was almost calm and peaceful. The only stress point today was at work. First thing this morning we got a call for transportation that a young child had found a hypodermic needle on the school bus and had been poked. You bet, That caused a whole bunch of excitement.

It turned out to be a small insulin hypo, but what in the sam hill was it doing on a school bus??? Even the police became involved in this situation. The child's mother was none too happy about the situation either. Can't say I blame her at all.

Things around here were actually quiet today. No drama. I can deal with it!!! I do feel like I have been drug through a knot hole backwards though. I feel extremely tired.

Thank you for letting me panic here on the stream. I honestly don't think I would have dealt with all this without a good outlet. You are all awesome.

Granny

I am posting at 9:21PM PST

I just talked with her and she seems fine. She is waiting still to hear from them as to what strain she had or has or whatever. She did not complain about feeling bad, so I guess our prayers were answered and she is good.

As for billy he is OK. After the girl friend called last night he did a 180* turn about and he was happy. It is extremely scary to me that he can drip that fast. I talked with his therapist today and he was concerned about that too. No warning of any kind. We have to come up with a different way for him to handle the bad times in life. That is just too much drama for us... You too.

I am beginning to feel like a drama queen. That is not where I want to be. Raising two damaged grandsons does have good times too. We just need many more of them.

Thanks for listening,
Granny

Posted at 5:00PM PST

Tonight Billy was in the kitchen all down and depressed. I asked him what was wrong and he waved his wrist. I saw blood!!! It seems he thought his girlfriend had dumped him, but instead of getting upset or panicky, I went for the first aid supplies, and a wash cloth. As I cleaned the wound I talked to him about how no girlfriend, wife, or husband was worth killing yourself. Of course he was not listening.

After was finished bandaging his wrist, he went in and wrote on his My Space page about how he was going to kill himself. I started getting phone calls. Then, G-pa took the phone and called our local Crisis Line. They talked to Billy a bit and didn't like what they heard and are right now on their way out here to talk with him in person.

Tomorrow he has an appointment with his therapist at 3:00PM. We are thinking of keeping him home from school.

-------THEN-------

The girlfriend calls. I answer the phone. No, I am not nice. I just state I think you have done enough damage and hang up!! Billy grabs the phone and she is still on the line. DAMN!! They talk and lo and behold, it was a friend of hers playing a joke. Ha Ha, very funny... Now I am mad.. I don't need this type of thing going on. Billy walks a very thin line. It doesn't take much to push him over the edge.

Billy is fine now. He has already changed his My Space page and everything. BUT, the fact is, he cut his wrist. No, it doesn't require stitches as it was only enough to draw blood. But there is that scream again. This is the second time in that many months. I am scare for him.

Talk to you tomorrow,
Granny
I am posting at 9:25PM PST