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David is conning them.

David is coming home today. Yesterday he shared that he was thinking about killing himself. Today he denied telling me that. Today he is coming home. I expressed my frustration as kindly as I could to the social worker. She claims to understand. But does she? Does she understand what it is to fear becoming a statistic in the news at the hands of a child? Does she understand that we are afraid? That we are concerned about the safety of not just mom and I, but the other kids in our home? She made some recommendations. We should call the Sheriff any time we don’t feel safe. We should call Child Protective Services and see if they can help. (this means giving up custody) I promised David we would never give up. She then said that we need to utilize the safe bed before we even consider bringing him

Are you serious?

These are the steps that we go through to get admission to the mental health unit for David. Drive 50 miles one way. Present to reception desk staff. Present history and current case to intake ER Nurse. Wait for 1 – 2 hours. Present case to ER nurse. Wait for up to an hour. Present case to Doctor and intake note taker person. Wait for labs Wait for him to pee in a cup. Explain to lab personnel why they need to use a butterfly needle on my son. Wait in ER for consult from on-call psychiatrist. If approval for admission is granted we wait for ambulance for transport to the building where the unit is located. If denied we go home. Wait some more. Follow ambulance to the unit. Wait for admission Nurse to bring out additional paperwork. Explain case to admission Nurse. Write down concerns, thoughts, issues, medications,

Visited David tonight

Visited David today. He changed his story about my weed eater 3 times. So now we have a possible location for it. He got mom so frustrated that she moved away from the table. Everything is blamed on some one else. His forging of the check happened because we don’t give him an allowance. Never mind that he doesn’t do anything to earn an allowance. His theft of some items is because we don’t give him any money. Some neighbor game him 50 dollars to purchase a spark plug, and a spark plug tool. I asked about the remaining funds, and he said that the spark plug cost all of the money to buy. We also learned of some of the places that are easy to steal from. So I will be stopping at those stores tomorrow and talking with the owners. I told David that it is his destiny