Things have been tough! I have talked about this a little bit but my sister in law has bipolar (unmedicated) and was in a manic episode for nearly a year. There was a lot of chaos associated with that, and we all tried so many times to get her help but it's very difficult to get someone in a manic episode to recognize that they're in a manic episode and so were unsuccessful. She cycled to a depressive episode finally at the end of March. She was staying at my inlaws, which had the added benefit of her being there to help my MIL with my FIL who had just been discharged from the hospital after being in and out of there/rehab since the beginning of January.
The morning of the anniversary of the day Charlotte was born, we woke up to a missed call from my MIL in the middle of the night, asking Mike to come over. He called her back, and was told that my SIL had attempted to take her own life. Thankfully she told her mom immediately after the attempt so JP took her to the hospital, she got her stomach pumped and was physically ok. She ended up staying for about two weeks and then came home. I have had a lot of really complicated feelings about this, sadness & fear for Lisa, sadness & fear for her parents who have been through just like a relentless barrage since last year with so many bad things happening, I was really upset that it was Charlotte's birthday that this happened on, it was all very confusing and scary and hard. We've seen her many times since this happened, and she was not really herself (unsurprisingly) but I was told that she was finally amenable to taking medication & was regularly seeing a therapist. She's had bipolar for a long time but was trying to self manage with meditation and exercise. So I was hopeful that she was taking the right steps to get help.
Mike's oldest niece lives in San Diego and is graduating from HS this week, so my inlaws and Lisa were all flying out to SD. For some freaking reason, Lisa was going to be traveling by herself. She missed her flight, got put on a later one but was acting visibly unwell in the airport, to the point where a nearby passenger called the police and she was taken to the hospital. I don't know if she stopped taking her medication or if she's not on the right one/dose but JP said she is not really connecting with reality right now, she's in the psych ER waiting to be admitted inpatient. I don't know if my inlaws are going to be able to go the graduation and that really upsets me. We're trying to figure out how long Lisa might be in the hospital, and if there is any gap, if we feel comfortable going to get her and having her stay with us until her parents get home. I feel so strongly that they should go, they deserve this little pocket of joy and their granddaughter deserves to have them there but Lisa is really unpredictable and I'm closing in on 6 months pregnant.
My little sister is ALSO in the hospital right now. She had a surgery a couple of weeks ago and isn't recovering very well, she's not listening to the dr when they say she needs to rest and she's doing too much. Consequently, she's landed herself back in the ER several times and last night was admitted. I'm also super worried about her, for like a hundred reasons.
I had been feeling a lot of like free floating anxiety after the anatomy scan last week. I thought after we saw her and were told she was good I would feel better but I've been having a tough time. Strangely I haven't felt anxious since we heard Lisa was in the hospital last night, like my anxiety has somewhere to go now so it's dissappated a little.
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