First, Candybear, I am fairly new here & didn't realize if you start a discussion you had to keep posting kinda like a discourse leader. I think just starting the discussion & letting it go is fine. No one seemed mad to me, just differences in experiences & opinions. That's a good thing. (Now I sound like Martha Stewart) We all need to get some perspective from other people's points of view.

Also, I agreed with the ones who said why was she let out of the hospital? That was my big question with my mother. I was just a kid & I could tell she wasn't in reality & was dangerous, so why didn't the docs protect us & herself by keeping her there?

CPS should have been notified. They take a dangerous dog out of a household if it bites someone, why not a mother who is threatening suicide & homicide?

The husband was probably in some sort of denial, too. He probably couldn't cope with his wife's illness & wanted to believe the doctors & meds had helped her.