24 Hour Recovery Connections Part 446
Member
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: California
Posts: 13,044
7:19 pm in California and checking in for another 24. I haven’t been checking in on this thread daily, but have been popping into SR Newcomers to offer support.
Things here are going well. The kids are all off for summer, my girls finished last week, but they are taking ASL at the college over the summer. My son graduated from elementary school yesterday, he will be in 7th grade next year, so no more elementary kiddos for me.
My oldest made her Confirmation last Saturday, and we had a nice evening with family. I will have some time off in July, and think we will have family or friends here almost the entire time.
We are going to try to plan a road trip around July 19th. Either up the CA Coast, or Arizona, or still TBD.
Things with me are good, and just about three and a half years into sobriety I am grateful every day to be approaching life with eyes wide open.
Hope everyone is doing well, and congrats to all celebrating a milestone.
Have a great weekend everyone.
❤️Delilah
Things here are going well. The kids are all off for summer, my girls finished last week, but they are taking ASL at the college over the summer. My son graduated from elementary school yesterday, he will be in 7th grade next year, so no more elementary kiddos for me.
My oldest made her Confirmation last Saturday, and we had a nice evening with family. I will have some time off in July, and think we will have family or friends here almost the entire time.
We are going to try to plan a road trip around July 19th. Either up the CA Coast, or Arizona, or still TBD.
Things with me are good, and just about three and a half years into sobriety I am grateful every day to be approaching life with eyes wide open.
Hope everyone is doing well, and congrats to all celebrating a milestone.
Have a great weekend everyone.
❤️Delilah
Member
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: California
Posts: 13,044
Originally Posted by Atlast9999 
Checking in on day 365! So very grateful that today marks one year. I’ll take another 24 please.
Member
Join Date: May 2016
Location: Texas, US
Posts: 2,478
Good evening,
I have been trying to sort out a situation with my father’s trusted caregiver. She has been sending me hostile messages that make no sense for a couple of months now. About how she doesn’t want to have a fixed schedule, doesn’t want my brother and I involved in his care..all along we’ve been bending over backwards to accommodate her but it is never enough. Now she is refusing to realize that there are other people working too...we can’t go on like this. Dad seems to like her but I had to tell him what was occurring behind the scenes tonight. We are very likely going to have to fire her. She is acting mentally unhinged and abusive, and threatened to quit if we didn’t cave and let her set her own hours and write her own checks. It’s a big mess. I’ve lost so much sleep. My brother is suffering too. My mother is still struggling in the hospital, unable to walk. It’s untenable. Tomorrow is the day it stops. Full stop. I’m worried about Dad, worried about retaliation but I need to have faith. Sometimes people lack empathy and don’t even act in their own best interest. I feel lost, sick and worried.
One thing I do know is that I won’t drink. I probably won’t sleep, again, but maybe something will happen tomorrow that isn’t terrible. I hope he isn’t in danger. It just is so worrisome.
Red
I have been trying to sort out a situation with my father’s trusted caregiver. She has been sending me hostile messages that make no sense for a couple of months now. About how she doesn’t want to have a fixed schedule, doesn’t want my brother and I involved in his care..all along we’ve been bending over backwards to accommodate her but it is never enough. Now she is refusing to realize that there are other people working too...we can’t go on like this. Dad seems to like her but I had to tell him what was occurring behind the scenes tonight. We are very likely going to have to fire her. She is acting mentally unhinged and abusive, and threatened to quit if we didn’t cave and let her set her own hours and write her own checks. It’s a big mess. I’ve lost so much sleep. My brother is suffering too. My mother is still struggling in the hospital, unable to walk. It’s untenable. Tomorrow is the day it stops. Full stop. I’m worried about Dad, worried about retaliation but I need to have faith. Sometimes people lack empathy and don’t even act in their own best interest. I feel lost, sick and worried.
One thing I do know is that I won’t drink. I probably won’t sleep, again, but maybe something will happen tomorrow that isn’t terrible. I hope he isn’t in danger. It just is so worrisome.
Red
Guest
Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: UK
Posts: 2,256
Wonderful post Delilah! Wishing you and your gorgeous family a fantastic summer xxx
Red, go with your gut and fire the carer. Do it today. Everything else will unfold exactly as it should but do not ignore your intuition. Don't want to make this about me but I had a similar situation when my dad was alive and yep ..... Your intuition is screaming at you for a reason. Don't ignore it. Hope you find someone else very soon xxxx
Pete, hope you sell lots of cars today. I'll come find you when I need a new one!
Sunny, the course sounds amazing. Kinds of feeds into my experience last night. So, last night I met up with my old best friend who I fell out with 15 years ago for reasons that seemed really important at the time but which boil down to total nonsense. I'm not on any form of social media so when I lose contact with a person I tend to stay lost but last summer the universe put in play a crazy set of coincidences and random encounters that led to me and my friend getting back into contact. We've been messaging for months and last night we met face to face for the first time in 15 years.
And when I first saw her we hugged and I felt something in my soul. Healing. And my word, my friend has been through some tough times. And in between the scattering of guilt that I felt because I haven't been there for her, there was an overriding feeling of hope. Hope for the future. Hope for the now. And I now know for sure that the universe works in mysterious ways. When I ran the London marathon in April 2014, I ran for a random charity that had places in the marathon available. I picked a little-known charity that works with blind kids. It somehow spoke to me. Turns out the month I ran for this charity was the exact same month my friend brought her premature, blind daughter back from hospital after spending 5 months in intensive care. Apparently this charity has been instrumental in helping my friend and her daughter. And even tho I didn't know about it at the time, I helped raise money for them. Thank you universe for helping me to help. I am always going to trust in the universe. It knows what it's doing.
So happy to be back in contact with my friend. I wouldn't be if I was still drinking. Thank you sobriety. Love to everyone and 24 more for me please xxxx
Red, go with your gut and fire the carer. Do it today. Everything else will unfold exactly as it should but do not ignore your intuition. Don't want to make this about me but I had a similar situation when my dad was alive and yep ..... Your intuition is screaming at you for a reason. Don't ignore it. Hope you find someone else very soon xxxx
Pete, hope you sell lots of cars today. I'll come find you when I need a new one!
Sunny, the course sounds amazing. Kinds of feeds into my experience last night. So, last night I met up with my old best friend who I fell out with 15 years ago for reasons that seemed really important at the time but which boil down to total nonsense. I'm not on any form of social media so when I lose contact with a person I tend to stay lost but last summer the universe put in play a crazy set of coincidences and random encounters that led to me and my friend getting back into contact. We've been messaging for months and last night we met face to face for the first time in 15 years.
And when I first saw her we hugged and I felt something in my soul. Healing. And my word, my friend has been through some tough times. And in between the scattering of guilt that I felt because I haven't been there for her, there was an overriding feeling of hope. Hope for the future. Hope for the now. And I now know for sure that the universe works in mysterious ways. When I ran the London marathon in April 2014, I ran for a random charity that had places in the marathon available. I picked a little-known charity that works with blind kids. It somehow spoke to me. Turns out the month I ran for this charity was the exact same month my friend brought her premature, blind daughter back from hospital after spending 5 months in intensive care. Apparently this charity has been instrumental in helping my friend and her daughter. And even tho I didn't know about it at the time, I helped raise money for them. Thank you universe for helping me to help. I am always going to trust in the universe. It knows what it's doing.
So happy to be back in contact with my friend. I wouldn't be if I was still drinking. Thank you sobriety. Love to everyone and 24 more for me please xxxx
Currently Active Users Viewing this Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
