No idea if I really should or if anyone would care. I am good with words and am sure I COULD do it…but would not know where to start (and don’t say the beginning).
So the things in my life people from my family to my psychologist say should be in a book…
I have 7 kids, 6 (one of which was adopted at 14) with special needs that together include (but not limited to) a child who had a stroke before he was born, a daughter born with a severe clubfoot, bipolar disorder, oppositional defiance disorder, OCD, depression, dyslexia, autism, ashbergers, chronic gastrointestinal dysfunction, herpes in the eye, ADHD.
In addition I (the Dad) have Bipolar Disorder II, OCD, ADD, am deaf in my right ear. In my life I have had 2 failed marriages, over 50 jobs (I am 38), have struggled with addiction to pornography and have (unfortunately) participated in infidelity (my wife and I worked it out. My wife and I met when her ex husband ran off with my ex wife.
Just in the last year my family has seen a car wreck on the way to my sons graduation. All 6 kids besides the graduate were in the car and were sent to the hospital, my wife was airlifted to hospital…she broke four ribs hitting the steering wheel. I was off work for 4 months being hospitalized for Bipolar, had 8 sessions of Electric Convulsive Therapy, surgery to repair a deviated septum in my nose and then 4 months later I broke (actually shattered) my nose requiring surgery all over again. Let’s see…My son was bucked off a horse, breaking his hand, my daughter was arrested and then sent to State hospital for her mental issues. She is now on probation, my other son would rather cause a fist fight with me then to do what he is asked, my wife ran over a pine tree on icy roads, my son ran over a rock delivering pizzas, I lost my volunteer job as a Firefigher/EMT but only after watching my friend die after he was shot by the police. My wifes daycare went out of business and then the landlord would not let us get our things out of the building. We have also had a friend help us install a mobile home to be used for a craft building for my wife. Well he screwed up and the house fell on him. My sons and I managed to get it off him and we revived him and he is ok now with 8 broken ribs…then the county made me tear the building down as it did not meet their standards, my dog got hit by a car (but survived) and then got into the chicken house and killed three and injured two. Of the two, my daughter and I stitched one up to close a gaping 3? wound on the neck. Last winter we had our only steers, one pet goat and 24 chickens freeze to death. That is not counting the gerbal and the Oscar (fish) that kicked it too. Oh, and my 10 year old son burned him self putting a metal bowel in the microwave when we were not home. Rather than call us he put his hand in water to ease the pain…ICE WATER! When we got home his whole body was chilled and his hand was blue.
Other than that, we are just your typical everyday dysfunctional family.
So…what do YOU think? Forget my family and friends…what do YOU think, should all this (and believe it or not, more) be in a book?
OH MY HECK…funny responses
I assure you the story is true. The adoption was a private adoption…my exwifes had a daughter after we split, my son is this girls half sister. My job has been stable now for 5 years. As for mentall illness, that does not preclude a person from adopting so long as they can show they are now stable. The “shock” treatments were after the adoption. As for being a EMT and a mental case…I was not diagnosed while I was with the department and they did fire me for it despite there never being a conflict…lawsuit pending.
As for soothing…we’re not JUST a train wreck. Somehow we always manage to land on our feet, partly community and family help, partly God’s help, mostly just stubborn. Not always sure how we do it.
We have had good stories too, I shoulda stressed that. My daughter found two young horses someone left to die near our house. She saved their lives for sure! Once healthy she adopted one out and is “breaking” the other one now.
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