Dear Friends, I have asked for your prayers before on this, and Im afraid I have to ask again.
Last weekend I went to the hospital from a possible TIA. This after my drunken cousin * kept screaming for alcohol and soiling his cloths and furniture in the living room. Sorry, I know it is gross.
I flipped out sort of and than began to feel bad. The hospital found no damage on the MRI but did say my ammonia levels were elevated and that I was showing signs of exhaustion. I have have had high triglyceride levels for 30 years, so I guess my kidneys and liver are being affected. They kept me for two days running tests. I slept most of the time.
Everyone hates being in the hospital, but for me it was heaven. No crashing furniture, no smell, no begging no crying no sippie cups of water no “please give me something to eat.”
I stayed all this time as he is family. Everyone else has given up on him and won’t help out. I have enough money for some gas and the power bill. I have enough to eat, as I have a source for food.
This man has sucked the life force out of me. I get so physically weak when he gets to drinking around the clock. I wouldnt wish this on a death row convict. I should have left when I got out of the hospital. Its just that no one will take my dogs, not that I blame them. He keeps wanting me to take him to church, but how can I take a drunk into church?
I want to go, but I don’t want them to cut the power and the gas off in the middle of winter. It has been consistently colder in Atlanta than Anchorage Alaska. [we are at a high elevation] When I came home from family Christmas, I had to take him to the hospital. He might die or freeze to death or fall down the stairs… what a mess. I keep taking him to detox and he stays a week, gets out, and starts back. He gets my checkbook or my debit card when I am asleep to buy booze sometimes. Sometimes he gets a check from a family member.
God, he is calling my name right now. Im just going to bed and lock the door and hope nothing happens. Please pray for me again. Thanks.*
Call on Saint Jude, brother of James and cousin of Jesus, who deals well with these issues (I hear).
Ask him to keep you in his prayers and for him to pray with you fopr help.
I’ll join in as well.