Jan G. My old mom does the same thing...she lives her life through my kids, and me (I'm an only child). I've often wished I'd had brothers & sisters...but my Mom has been good to my kids. She made the down-payment on their homes...about $20,000.00 each. It's part of their inheritance. Jan C. -----Original Message----- From: J. Garland <zippywebgenie@hotmail.com> To: BLACKSHEEP-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com <BLACKSHEEP-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 9:00 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=unsu bscribe > >============================== >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 >