My Life is hardly ever normal. Then again it wouldn't be with all the stuff that goes on in my life. I have been living for six years now with a brother who has RAD. My family adopted my little brother when he was just six years old, he is now twelve and currently does not live with us. In case you don't know what RAD is it's a condition that you get from being abused (as he was by his biological parents) and makes it hard for him to have a bond with anyone. He also has cystic fibrosis which is a lung disease and he has problems with hallucinations that make him sometimes want to hurt my family.
He is currently in arkansas in his second SIP facility. My mom says that even though all this is happening a good thing happened too. My family has been taught about mental illness and we know what it really is. This blog will cover our life and all that is going on in it. All I ask of the people who read this is to pray that things will get better in our family and my little brother will be able to come home.
I live now live with my two sisters and my parents. I have an older sister who is fourteen and a younger sister who is seven I am thirteen. My Dad is thirty-nine and my Mom is..... well she stopped aging at twenty-one. We go up to see my little brother in arkansas once a month. My Dad has put in for detail at work to see if he can transfer to arkansas and work there for the summer so we can be with my little brother all summer.
Oh Yeah my mom also has a blog if you want to read her account of our life her adress is: http://learningtoraindance.blogspot.com/, my older sister has a blog to but her blog is on politics if you want to read it her adress is: http://anewgenerationonpolitics.blogspot.com/. Today normal is non-existent.
Danny
Danny,
ReplyDeleteYou are a wonderful big brother & you have a wealth of information to share. You have real life experience in a subject few know about. I look forward to reading your blog and learning about life from your prespective.
Love you!
Mom