Hug Your Kids

My fifteen year old daughter's BFF since she was three months old had her nineteen year old brother attempt suicide last Tuesday.  He got it perfectly wrong; not dead but not recoverable.

He hung himself and his Mother and Grandfather discovered him while he was still "alive"...no response to stimulus that should invoke gaging and coughing (indication of no brain activity), getting his second MRI now...next step is to have a second Neurologist sign off that he's brain dead and slide the paperwork over to his mom allowing for life support removal.

I've always joked that Makayla was my third daughter as she's spent so much time with us and she doesn't have a dad and her Grandfather (quasi dad) and I get along great.

Makayla has been staying at our house since Tuesday (her request), her mother came over on Wednesday and while listening to her, I put myself in her place...what if one of my daughters did this?  I'm not exaggerating, when I had that thought, the room began to spin, I literally almost passed out from the thought.

Hug...Your...Kids.  

OMG.

I'm so sorry.

Sorry to hear and my thoughts go to him and his loved ones.

Oh no. 

This is the second time tonight of a friend-of-a-friend probably losing a child in the near future that I’ve receiced tonight. 

I really want to say I can’t imagine. But I can, and I’ve been crying for the past two hours. 

RX, I’m so sorry for you, your daughter, Makayla, and her mother and grandfather. 

Agonizing. That poor kid and his loved ones. I am sorry man. 

I'm so sorry, that's horrible for them all:(

So sorry for everyone involved.

I can't even imagine .......

Every parents' nightmare.  I can't even imagine the pain.

Man that is terrible,  our hearts go out to your families. we send our love and prayers. That has to be the worst thing as a parent. 

Beyond my ability to imagine. I'ma go hug my kid now.

We had a brush with that last year.  A high-school friend of our daughter took an overdose of Advil (fortunately not Tylenol).  It was more of a cry for help, and she's doing better.  That's a hard thing for a kid to experience.

Best wishes for everyone involved.

Second MRI & second neurologist have confirmed that he's gone and he'll be taken off of live support tomorrow.

Sorry to hear this. 

God that's terrible....

I can't even image having to make that decision.  I feel for those left behind making that.

Ugh so hard for them to be teenagers.

Wow, I'm so sorry to hear this. So sorry for everyone involved.