[DianaB]

Oh Lynne......don't be afraid to EVER come and let us know what's going on......We love you and you're a part of our family!!

How awful. I'm sure your girls are dealing with all kinds of emotions. Even if your daughter would have stayed with him he would have just found another time to do it.......if that's what he had determined he wanted to do.

My Dad tried to commit suicide......he took pills and my brother found him the next morning.......he ended up in Wichita and filled him with charcoal then was going to release him!! I had a fit and he ended up in evaluation......which still released him in a couple of days.

Another time my Dad was suicidal he was so depressed and as talking about ending it all......so we called a mental health facility and took him there but by that time he was having breathing problems and had to be admitted to the hospital......again, in a couple of days he was released! I ended up getting a court order to have him picked up and placed in a mental facility which after a couple of days asked us (Glen and I) why we were doing this to this poor man because they couldn't find any problems but they kept him a couple of days longer and finally started seeing something. My Dad also was paranoid schiphrenic as well as being depressed. Every where we turned WE were questioned because my Dad knew how he was suppose to act.

I guess where I'm going with all of this is that it's really hard to get help even when you know that they need it. He probably would have straightened up and acted fine if the girls would have tried to get help and still would have done what he did at a different time.

I'm so sorry about all of this.....it's so hard to deal with........You are all in my prayers!!