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<blockquote data-quote="in a daze" data-source="post: 649696" data-attributes="member: 15832"><p>So true, RE.</p><p></p><p>Lil, my son sent me a text on January 30th (ironically that was the day 2 years ago he went into the hospital and he hasn't been back to our home/the condo we bought for him since). He was going to starve because his Link card was out of money and we forbade him from putting frozen food on the credit card we had set up at Walgreens to pay for his prescriptions. Said he had no money for food and asked if I would take him shopping on the next day which was a Saturday. I told him no, I was unable to take him shopping.</p><p></p><p>He texted back about his horrible anxiety about the lack of food and a missing prescription. I suffered all weekend. I laid on the couch and drank chamomile tea and cried all day. Then I forced myself to go to mass and then a parish party and ended up having a decent time.</p><p></p><p>I then decided that I would bring him some emergency food on Tuesday since I was going to take him to this appointment, which he ended up having to cancel as they had changed his schedule at work. I saw my therapist on Wednesday, and she told me absolutely NO care packages or emergency food, he would never learn to fend for himself if I kept doing that for him.</p><p></p><p>So I met him on his birthday which was the week after that, and I did bring him some home made sauce and meatballs that I had in the freezer and a package of pasta.</p><p></p><p>And then he texted and wanted to meet us for dinner tonight and we did see him. No mention about the Link card, or how he's managing to feed himself. His caseworker is helping him with budgeting. She told me he spends a third of his money on cigarettes. (Just like Pasages said!)</p><p></p><p>You can get through this, Lil.<img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/emoticons/notalone.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":notalone:" title="notalone :notalone:" data-shortname=":notalone:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="in a daze, post: 649696, member: 15832"] So true, RE. Lil, my son sent me a text on January 30th (ironically that was the day 2 years ago he went into the hospital and he hasn't been back to our home/the condo we bought for him since). He was going to starve because his Link card was out of money and we forbade him from putting frozen food on the credit card we had set up at Walgreens to pay for his prescriptions. Said he had no money for food and asked if I would take him shopping on the next day which was a Saturday. I told him no, I was unable to take him shopping. He texted back about his horrible anxiety about the lack of food and a missing prescription. I suffered all weekend. I laid on the couch and drank chamomile tea and cried all day. Then I forced myself to go to mass and then a parish party and ended up having a decent time. I then decided that I would bring him some emergency food on Tuesday since I was going to take him to this appointment, which he ended up having to cancel as they had changed his schedule at work. I saw my therapist on Wednesday, and she told me absolutely NO care packages or emergency food, he would never learn to fend for himself if I kept doing that for him. So I met him on his birthday which was the week after that, and I did bring him some home made sauce and meatballs that I had in the freezer and a package of pasta. And then he texted and wanted to meet us for dinner tonight and we did see him. No mention about the Link card, or how he's managing to feed himself. His caseworker is helping him with budgeting. She told me he spends a third of his money on cigarettes. (Just like Pasages said!) You can get through this, Lil.:notalone: [/QUOTE]
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