[blparent] We're fine.

Mon Jul 23 01:57:25 UTC 2012

I hope Stephen can get some help.  Gerald pushed for me to be at the 
evaluation, even though his ex wife wasn't excited about the idea, because I 
see Stephen in a different environment than they do and he talks to me a 
lot.  I've seen these issues brewing for years, but his parents tended to 
write them off as normal kid behavior.  Maybe they were normal kid behavior 
at some point, but like Gerald said, Stephen reminds us of Peter Pan who 
never grew up.

Jo Elizabeth

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a 
song." Maya Angelou
-----Original Message----- 
From: sharon howerton
Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2012 7:35 PM
To: Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] We're fine.

Jo Elizabeth, good luck with the evaluation this week. Perhaps Steven can
get help if needed; I wish I'd been able to get help for Brendan when he was
young, but no one believed me when I felt he had issues and if he wasn't
abusing drugs, I couldn't get any help. Maybe I just didn't seek hard
enough, but his dad didn't believe me nor did the pediatrician and both
would have had to concur with me.
When my son Brendan was in the Navy and the Iraq war had just started in
2003, my mom used to watch CNN constantly watching for the Abraham Lincoln,
his ship. I remember my dean asking me how I was dealing with this, and I
said I just couldn't focus on it all the time-it was just too much. My
treasured memories were when I'd find an email and sometimes we'd be on at
the same time and he'd write, "Are you thhre, Mama?"
And perhaps your feelings are why people need crisis intervention counselors
even for yourself who is not directly affected but indirectly so. You may
wish to find out if you can talk with someone. There would be nothing wrong
with that, I would think.
Sharon
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at msn.com>
To: "Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2012 8:08 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] We're fine.

> Thanks for the good wishes.  I don't know what my problem is.  I've still 
> been getting panic attacks every time I have to leave home, where my 
> breathing gets really fast and I feel shaky and queasy, and a couple of 
> times I've started crying out of nowhere.  I feel selfish for being so 
> upset when, thank God, I wasn't directly affected.
>
> The news is just filled with tragic stories.  The youngest person killed 
> was a six-year-old girl.  Her mom is in critical condition in the 
> hospital, and they're not telling her about her daughter for fear she'll 
> give up the fight.  There was an interview with a man who told how his son 
> got stuck under one of the seats in the theater, and people were yelling 
> at him to leave the kid, but he wouldn't.  He finally got his son to turn 
> his head so he could be pulled out.  There was an athlete who had big 
> dreams of a college scholarship; he's now paralyzed.  There was a young 
> man who was shot in the eye, but not killed.  There's a husband in 
> critical condition while his wife is ready to go into labor any day.  The 
> three-month old baby was only grazed, thank God.  A friend of mine has a 
> friend who is in the Middle East right now, and she says it's ironic that 
> her home town experienced such violence in a "safe" country while she's 
> "safe" in a dangerous place.  But it's one interview after another.  The 
> 24-year-old med student who is responsible bought all of his guns legally, 
> got body armor and even a helmet online, went into the theater, propped 
> the door open, then left to change into the armor and returned.  He said 
> he couldn't see anybody in particular, he just threw a tear gas canister 
> and then fired a hundred rounds into the crowd.  I've finally had to just 
> shut off the TV and radio so I don't go to pieces.
>
> Life goes on.  We have an appointment where my stepson's parents and I 
> will go to meet a panel of experts and answer questions, moving toward a 
> diagnosis of Asperger's or autism for my stepson.  He registers for school 
> Tuesday afternoon.  I don't know where the summer went!
>
> Jo Elizabeth
>
> "A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a 
> song." Maya Angelou
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Jennifer Jackson
> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2012 6:10 AM
> To: 'Blind Parents Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [blparent] We're fine.
>
> Sheila, your message is short, but really says what is so important when
> facing a tragedy. I have found in recent years that the prayer I pray most
> often is for someone's family to find peace and love in their hearts after
> the pain. I started praying it in response to war news. It is my greatest
> wish for my children and myself, and for the world.
>
> The harder part is knowing what to tell our children, which is just part 
> of
> that wanting to protect them from the world thing..
>
>
> Jennifer
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Sheila Leigland
> Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2012 3:08 AM
> To: Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blparent] We're fine.
>
> Hi, it's a scary time right now. I'm glad to know that your family is 
> fine.
> Blessings and peace to you all.
>
> Sheila Leigland
>
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