I feel totally at my wits end. My family consists of my mother, 2 sons and daughter. I have written how my oldest son and dtr live at home and the problems - not getting better either. My daughter is terrible lately. I've been working 10-12 hrs because my job is becoming increasingly a problem - then there's my 2nd part time job on weekends. I'm exhausted and overwhelmed with work.

So my mother has been off-the-wall lately and driving me more crazy and learned the other day that she ran out of her diabetic medication and was out for 1 1/2 wks. She called and had the MD fax the referral to the mail order - but didn't mention she was totally out and I now learn her blood sugar was over 160 for 2 weeks and reached over 300 - yet she didn't tell anyone. She now has her meds and I'm hoping she will get back to normal. Read online this may cause confusion - anyone familiar with this situation?

Spent all of last night in ER - my youngest son - the only one I don't have trouble with (who moved out) had a seizure for the 1st time in his life. I was an absolute basket case. The last time was in ER was when my husband had a seizure 6 months before he died. CAT scan, and blood work came out fine but now he needs an MRI and EEG. Now my son can't drive for 6 months (there goes his plan to finish up school) and he's going to be put on seizure medication - but he still has a chance of having another seizure. They still haven't ruled everything out yet.

Of course, I'm the one who has to drive him since he can't drive. I feel like a wreck - just wanted to vent a bit - but - anyone have much experience with seizures and what was done? My son was playing a video game at the time but the doctor didn't think that had much of an influence. The seizure lasted at least 10 minutes and the MD said they are usually 1-2 minutes. My daughter had a seizure at the age of 2 that lasted at least 15 min. (we drove her to the ER and she continued to have the seizure - they gave her a shot of valium and the seizure continued for another 5 min.) I told the MD about her seizure and he said "she's also at risk of having another seizure considering how long that lasted." So the doctor told us about his patients who have died while having a seizure (one fell in front of a train, one drowned, etc.) - guess he justed wanted us aware - but his girlfriend was crying and quite upset.

It is just never ending problems. I sat in ER for the first hour while they ruled out a blood clot - that was very scary because my oldest son almost died of a blood clot at the age of 14 and he spent a while in ICU. Is now on high doses of coumadin the rest of his life. Don't mean to ramble - hope I can sleep tonight - I'm exhausted but nervous. Wonder when my life will ever be normal. Looking forward to the Ohio GTG though - if I can keep my sanity till then.