Going along with the conversations…
I saw today in the Monroe Evening News an article discussing suicide prevention. And I think it is definitely a serious issue to consider, especially if you have an illness.
I am not saying everyone who has ever been sick is automatically suicidal, but believe me it can be VERY hard to deal with everything that goes on. I remember when I was eight years old, I had suicidal thoughts, which I know is horrible to think about. But I wanted to share it because, it can be so hard for kids going through so much! I was being put on so many medicications, put through so many tests, been passed from doctor to doctor to psychiatrist, been told I was faking, that my mom was making it all up. Thinking back on it now, I am so amazed at myself and with my family because we fought hard and strong because we knew what was going on with me wasn’t imaginary.
Without my family by my side, I don’t know how I would have grown. I don’t know if I would be as strong as I am now. Whether it was my mom who was with me during my tests and who has seen me pass out the most, my dad who stayed the night with me in the hospital on some itsy bitsy little chair and helped me get to sleep when I couldn’t get comfortable in the hospital bed. Or my grandparents flying to Florida from Michigan the night they heard I was going to have a pacemaker implanted. I love them all dearly, and am so blessed to belong to all of them 
Back to work now. Toodle loo buckaroos! I’ll try not to be so depressing next time.