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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 577737" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>My difficult child has caused his share of tough days for me. They are difficult to put in order. Of course newer ones are more fresh in my mind but two old ones are difficult to beat. Another one was when he was a baby and got sick. First it looked really bad, then later little less bad but was still potentially live threatening. But that first night we sat in the hospital, our son at ICU and doctors telling us that they didn't exactly know what was wrong and some possible causes were worse and some better, but that he was in the bad shape and they couldn't promise he would live through the night. He obviously did live through the night to cause us many more awful days and nights (and some rather awesome too.)</p><p></p><p>difficult child was a runner and there were some real scares along the way. Jacket found from river and no boy anywhere was probably the worst. It ended up that he had taken a jacket off while playing at riverbank because the first spring days can get warm and then wind had taken his jacket to the river. When he noticed that he had hid because he was worried we would be angry because of the lost jacket (we would had, wasn't the first lost one.) There were some long hours between someone spotting children jacket from river and fire department getting it up and looking the nametag and calling me and asking if it was a jacket my child was currently using and if I knew where my son was and before difficult child was found (nowhere near the river.)</p><p></p><p>Newer very bad day was those two weeks after difficult child was busted from stealing, we learned about his addiction, were trying to find info and resources to help, had some very big decisions to make about his future. Disappointment, anger, shame, fear and having to make really difficult decisions fast and without any way of knowing how things would turn out. We basically had to choose between crashing his life, stopping everything in his life, keeping him home and hoping to be able to help him build a new and accept the lost dreams and chances. Or let him go, let him try to keep things going for him and his dreams alive, but forsaking any control over his every day life. And there wasn't many days to decide. And after opting for second option, we had to find the resources to help from totally different area etc. Right now it seems our decision may work out, but of course we can never know if the other one would had been better still.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 577737, member: 14557"] My difficult child has caused his share of tough days for me. They are difficult to put in order. Of course newer ones are more fresh in my mind but two old ones are difficult to beat. Another one was when he was a baby and got sick. First it looked really bad, then later little less bad but was still potentially live threatening. But that first night we sat in the hospital, our son at ICU and doctors telling us that they didn't exactly know what was wrong and some possible causes were worse and some better, but that he was in the bad shape and they couldn't promise he would live through the night. He obviously did live through the night to cause us many more awful days and nights (and some rather awesome too.) difficult child was a runner and there were some real scares along the way. Jacket found from river and no boy anywhere was probably the worst. It ended up that he had taken a jacket off while playing at riverbank because the first spring days can get warm and then wind had taken his jacket to the river. When he noticed that he had hid because he was worried we would be angry because of the lost jacket (we would had, wasn't the first lost one.) There were some long hours between someone spotting children jacket from river and fire department getting it up and looking the nametag and calling me and asking if it was a jacket my child was currently using and if I knew where my son was and before difficult child was found (nowhere near the river.) Newer very bad day was those two weeks after difficult child was busted from stealing, we learned about his addiction, were trying to find info and resources to help, had some very big decisions to make about his future. Disappointment, anger, shame, fear and having to make really difficult decisions fast and without any way of knowing how things would turn out. We basically had to choose between crashing his life, stopping everything in his life, keeping him home and hoping to be able to help him build a new and accept the lost dreams and chances. Or let him go, let him try to keep things going for him and his dreams alive, but forsaking any control over his every day life. And there wasn't many days to decide. And after opting for second option, we had to find the resources to help from totally different area etc. Right now it seems our decision may work out, but of course we can never know if the other one would had been better still. [/QUOTE]
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