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<blockquote data-quote="katya02" data-source="post: 204891" data-attributes="member: 2884"><p>Oh Slsh and Star, I'm sitting here crying for both of you. I don't have an immediate answer for how to deal with it; I also wake up with heart pounding and tears on my face and all I can do is shove those out of control feelings into a little room and lock the door, tell myself I'll deal with them tomorrow ... or the next day ... </p><p></p><p>My difficult child also sees suicide as a seriously viable option and he's prone to depression. All I can do is hope - and try not to think about it. I try to think about how strong my younger sister is. She has a daughter with a heart defect so severe that, when the surgeons repaired it shortly after birth, they told her that her daughter would be in the new pediatric cardiology textbook as the worst heart malformation they've seen so far (this was at a world-class peds hospital). Then they told her that the longest a child has survived with a similar repair was to the age of eleven. Her daughter is sixteen now. All these years she's lived with the knowledge that she could get a phone call from the school any day to say that her daughter is dead, or she could go to wake her daughter in the morning and find her dead. Now she's in uncharted territory, so to speak, and the surgeons won't lay any bets on how long the repair will last. So I think about my sister and my niece and I tell myself if she can do it, I can do it ... and I go on for one more day.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="katya02, post: 204891, member: 2884"] Oh Slsh and Star, I'm sitting here crying for both of you. I don't have an immediate answer for how to deal with it; I also wake up with heart pounding and tears on my face and all I can do is shove those out of control feelings into a little room and lock the door, tell myself I'll deal with them tomorrow ... or the next day ... My difficult child also sees suicide as a seriously viable option and he's prone to depression. All I can do is hope - and try not to think about it. I try to think about how strong my younger sister is. She has a daughter with a heart defect so severe that, when the surgeons repaired it shortly after birth, they told her that her daughter would be in the new pediatric cardiology textbook as the worst heart malformation they've seen so far (this was at a world-class peds hospital). Then they told her that the longest a child has survived with a similar repair was to the age of eleven. Her daughter is sixteen now. All these years she's lived with the knowledge that she could get a phone call from the school any day to say that her daughter is dead, or she could go to wake her daughter in the morning and find her dead. Now she's in uncharted territory, so to speak, and the surgeons won't lay any bets on how long the repair will last. So I think about my sister and my niece and I tell myself if she can do it, I can do it ... and I go on for one more day. [/QUOTE]
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