Well, right now, she's refusing surgery. Next stop is the "other" hospital, whether she has the surgery or not. They're giving her some anti-depressant and waiting, hoping, that she'll be in better spirits when the doctors decide it's time to discuss her treatment options. Daughter just called and says that the bullet is lodged in her abdomen at the Y of the arteries going to her legs, 1/8" from one of them. Incredible! Daughter sounded exhausted, spent all day with her husband at the hospital, trying to understand, as was he. Jan G. ----Original Message Follows---- From: "Shuler Michael" <grinch42@mindspring.com> Reply-To: grinch42@mindspring.com To: BLACKSHEEP-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [BSChat] Tea Leaves Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 22:35:41 -0500 What will probably happen, Jan, is that she'll be arrested, since attempted suicide is illegal, then she'll get committed due to "temporary" insanity. Mike IBSSG > [Original Message] > From: J. Garland <zippywebgenie@hotmail.com> > To: <BLACKSHEEP-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: 5/7/2002 10:00:51 PM > Subject: [BSChat] Tea Leaves > > > How's she spooky? > > Oh, just the way she wants to know all the details of everyone's life. All > the time. Seems to be her hobby, living vicariously from the safety of her > home. I feel like I'm being stalked sometimes. > > My son in law's mom is worse, though. She's been a difficult woman and has > displayed some obvious mental problems since we met her. Not sure what the > label would be. Heard today that she tried to kill herself last Saturday, by > OD'ing on aspirin as well as shooting herself in the chest with a 9 mm. > Should have killed her. Instead she walked around for three days without > telling either of two sons that stopped by over the weekend what she had > done. Today, my son-in-law stopped by to see her and she said, "oh, by the > way, I tried to kill myself. Shot myself in the chest." He was baffled, > didn't believe her, there she stood looking like always. She showed him the > wound on her sternum, said it only hurts when she bends over. He was > understandably upset, she didn't want to go to the hospital, finally he got > her to go, after an hour of arguing, and all the time she's telling him that > she'll hate him til she dies for making her go to the hospital. Poor son, > he's a good guy, just trying to do the right thing, and dealing with the > shock of it all. I haven't heard any more, but I guess at the least she'll > be staying overnight, since it was a self-inflicted wound. > > I'm so glad she told him what she'd done. What if she'd been found dead in a > couple more days, with an old wound in her chest? All three sons had been > there at one time or another. Could have cost all of them their freedom for > a while, until things were sorted out--if ever. > > Jan G. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com > > > ==== BLACKSHEEP-CHAT Mailing List ==== > Unsubscribe from the list: > Mailto:Blacksheep-Chat-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe&body=unsub scribe > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 --- Shuler Michael --- grinch42@mindspring.com --- EarthLink: The #1 provider of the Real Internet. ==== BLACKSHEEP-CHAT Mailing List ==== Unsubscribe from the list: Mailto:Blacksheep-Chat-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe&body=unsubscribe ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.

"J. Garland" <zippywebgenie@hotmail.com> wrote.... >... the bullet is lodged in her abdomen at the Y of the arteries going to her legs, 1/8" from one of them. Incredible! < That has got to be one of the most amazing tales of attempted suicide that I have EVER heard!! I mean, what are the odds of surviving something like that?! Wild!! Best, SueB