I figured since I started season 6 with some personal stories of what I had been going on in my life I should end this season with an update on how things have been going personally. I wanna thank everyone who reached out with support and love for the things our family has endured.
Damon
- Hey it’s me!
- I figured since I started season 6 with some personal stories of what I had been going on in my life I should end this season with an update on how things have been going personally.
- I wanna thank everyone who reached out with support and love for the things our family has endured
- When we left off, my mother Veronica was in a 96 hour hold at a mental facility which luckily went through a weekend so it was actually more than 96 hours in total.
- She was released on a Monday because they couldn’t hold her any longer.
- The determined my mom was not homicidal and she was not suicidal - and in their words, "it’s not not illegal to be demented"
- After all she is still an adult and she was responsible for herself and her actions, regardless of everything that led up to her institutionalization
- Astonishingly, the staff were ready to put her in a cab in which she could have requested to go anywhere.
- Thankfully my aunt Bonnie, Veronica’s younger sister who lives in Missouri, picked her up then took her to the house she lost in foreclosure at her request.
- there was nothing Bonnie could do so she dropped Mom off then watched her from nearby.
- The guy who bought the house at auction, Kevin, did too.
- He was part of our team monitoring Mom to know when she was at the house because his team was working there, and we needed to know where she was.
- We coordinated for Kevin to call the police because in essence, Mom was trespassing at his home
- The police picked her up again, then dropped her at the Hampton inn on nearby Belton.
- I called to introduce myself to the staff and share Veronica’s story — The staff had unwittingly just become a part of my team
- It was weird to have mom out on the streets, independent, but not at her house.
- The only thing I was certain about was she was definitely going to try to go back to that house...
- … and she did.
- The Next morning she went down the front desk of the hotel and bummed a ride from a hotel front desk staff person who was getting off from his night shift.
- My mother, the super risk averse safety conscious woman I had always known had just bummed a ride from a total stranger.
- When she got to the house, apparently she couldn’t get in the front door so she somehow opened the garage door and went in the house through that entry door.
- I’m sure you can imagine Kevin pure shock when he showed up to the house to find Veronica inside like some paranoid schizophrenic magician.
- She Spoke harshly to Kevin, pushed him, said she called the mortgage company and they said HE could not pay the mortgage — of course she made no such call
- The Next morning my mother tried to walk to the house from the Hampton inn...
- That’s a 5 mile walk and keep in mind she’s 74
- with a diagnosed blood clot in her leg...
- … and it was bitter winter cold outside in February.
- The next morning she took a cab to the house.
- Later in the week she eventually rented a car and all I could do was hope for the best.
- One evening the staff at the front desk of the Hampton Inn called me because she was still out into the evening, which was uncharacteristic for her routine.
- Usually she'd get up in the morning and go downstairs for breakfast, go back upstairs and pack everything from her room, take her belongings out to her car and tell the staff she was going...
