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<blockquote data-quote="DammitJanet" data-source="post: 637938" data-attributes="member: 1514"><p>Kathy isnt your dtr taking lamictal? That is an anti- seizure medication. Also a few of the benzo medications help control seizures. Dont know if you remember it but when I ended up in the hospital with the meningitis I had several grand mal seizures and we believe they were mostly caused by the fact that the doctor's didnt wean me from my medications, they simply didnt give them to me. The fast cut off of all the medications I was on for bipolar which are also used for seizures caused me to have seizures. Once I got put back on my medications I have never had another seizure and no one ever suggested I couldnt drive. Of course, I havent been able to work in years but that is another story. </p><p></p><p>It is possible that she isnt able to work a full time job because of her mental health issues. I am honestly not sure if I could work now even if my physical health problems went away tomorrow. Personally I wish I would be able to but I dont know. My good times never seem to be the same time each day. That would make it hard to set up a schedule. </p><p></p><p>As far as everything else...you getting back involved in helping to support her...I think that is a very slippery slope. Tony and I were talking about this issue just the other night. When we were in our late 20's we had no one who would step in to help us out with all the every day life stuff. We wouldnt have wanted them to either because that would have meant they had a right to have a say in how we lived. Of course by that time Tony was an orphan but if my father had been paying our rent and utilities every month then he really would have had the right to tell us what we could do, how high to jump and when to do it. I would have hated that. What irritates me is that Cory especially doesnt seem to get it that if we are helping him out that it gives us the right to put our two cents in. We dont say a word to Jamie because he never asks for anything. I mean right now both Billy and Jamie are living in our house for quite a reduced rent but they dont think we should be able to have a say so in anything. Because of this I refuse to listen to either of them when they complain about the other. Billy is especially bad about this because he feels he could find a place to live cheaper than $200 a month plus utilities. I dont think so. (They are each supposed to pay $200 a month for rent plus split the utilities. Splitting the utilities really isnt fair though because Billy uses far more of them than Cory does. Billy has a pretty expensive cable/internet package, he has a ton of electronics in his bedroom which use quite a bit of electricity. Cory only has whatever cable comes through because Billy has it...he doesnt have a box or any type of computer to use the internet.) When Billy went to live with Jamie for a couple of months years ago our electric bill dropped by over $100 a month.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DammitJanet, post: 637938, member: 1514"] Kathy isnt your dtr taking lamictal? That is an anti- seizure medication. Also a few of the benzo medications help control seizures. Dont know if you remember it but when I ended up in the hospital with the meningitis I had several grand mal seizures and we believe they were mostly caused by the fact that the doctor's didnt wean me from my medications, they simply didnt give them to me. The fast cut off of all the medications I was on for bipolar which are also used for seizures caused me to have seizures. Once I got put back on my medications I have never had another seizure and no one ever suggested I couldnt drive. Of course, I havent been able to work in years but that is another story. It is possible that she isnt able to work a full time job because of her mental health issues. I am honestly not sure if I could work now even if my physical health problems went away tomorrow. Personally I wish I would be able to but I dont know. My good times never seem to be the same time each day. That would make it hard to set up a schedule. As far as everything else...you getting back involved in helping to support her...I think that is a very slippery slope. Tony and I were talking about this issue just the other night. When we were in our late 20's we had no one who would step in to help us out with all the every day life stuff. We wouldnt have wanted them to either because that would have meant they had a right to have a say in how we lived. Of course by that time Tony was an orphan but if my father had been paying our rent and utilities every month then he really would have had the right to tell us what we could do, how high to jump and when to do it. I would have hated that. What irritates me is that Cory especially doesnt seem to get it that if we are helping him out that it gives us the right to put our two cents in. We dont say a word to Jamie because he never asks for anything. I mean right now both Billy and Jamie are living in our house for quite a reduced rent but they dont think we should be able to have a say so in anything. Because of this I refuse to listen to either of them when they complain about the other. Billy is especially bad about this because he feels he could find a place to live cheaper than $200 a month plus utilities. I dont think so. (They are each supposed to pay $200 a month for rent plus split the utilities. Splitting the utilities really isnt fair though because Billy uses far more of them than Cory does. Billy has a pretty expensive cable/internet package, he has a ton of electronics in his bedroom which use quite a bit of electricity. Cory only has whatever cable comes through because Billy has it...he doesnt have a box or any type of computer to use the internet.) When Billy went to live with Jamie for a couple of months years ago our electric bill dropped by over $100 a month. [/QUOTE]
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