Finally.

Our T has been gone for 3 months plus now, taking care of a family emergency out of the country. They are finally talking about coming home!! She doesn't have plane tickets yet though. So I don't want to jinx anything. But at least she and hubby are talking about it. Thank goodness.
She called tonight and we discussed custody arrangments of her dog. Now that we've been dog-sitting him for 3 months we've gotten rather attached. And have bought him tons of toys, even a sweater. T said that we can have joint custody and "borrow" him back sometimes because we're going to miss him an awful lot once he goes home. But we will be so happy once T finally comes home. Just hope its soon.

I'm glad you at least got to talk to her! TOO LONG!!!

Wow Three months that is a long time to go without T. and to dog sit. Glad they are at least thinking about coming back. I bet you have grown somewhat attached to her dog, joint custody sounds like a good plan. Take care.

I am so glad to hear this! I can only imagine how hard it has been for you I hope she comes back home really soon!

What a relief! It's been a long time and you must be excited thinking about her return!

(((((((((((sarahmichelle))))))))))

That's great!

Very awesome!!!

i hope it is soon

I keep praying and praying she will call me any day now and say they've bought their tickets. I need her to come home so badly Miss her desperately.

Tonight's one of those nights when we are really, really missing her... feeling jealous of other people who get to actually see their T in person... just want to SEE her and get a hug from her and have a REAL therapy session, not talk on the phone
Talking on the phone just isn't the same. This has been a tough week personally and at work, and we just need so bad to talk to our T. She hasn't had time to even answer email this week. She called us on Sunday night for about 45 minutes, but that was all. I would give just about anything to be sitting in her office right now.

*****huge hugs***** anymore word of her possibily coming home?

I'm so sorry that you're having to go through this.

Lots of You're very strong!! I hope your T comes home soon!!!!

We haven't talked to her since last Sunday-- at that point she said she was ready to come home, but they(Family) were still talking about when, and hadn't purchased tickets yet.

My T is THE slowest person on the planet and is almost always late ("I'll be there in a couple minutes = I'll be there in about 30 minutes in REALITY") ("Be here at 10 for your session=she'll show up about 10:45) -- making decisions seems very complicated for because she has SO many people depending on her and needing her time. So I am not surprised it is taking them WEEKS now just to decide when to come home and when to get a plane ticket. Its frustrating. But its also just the way she is, and I know she has an awful lot on her plate right now.

I keep praying she will be home by Thanksgiving.

We are not feeling very strong right now
Holding things in (secrets and the therapy stuff we were working on) for MONTHS now is just really hard today. Some days it is better than others. Other times it feels like the whole world is going to cave in. Today is one of those cave-in days

Just feeling really alone and lonely again today. Last night and this morning were bad.
Flashbacks and old stuff coming up, desperately needing to talk to T... and just not having her here... really tough. We did get two emails from her this morning which was nice and she said some kind things. But she still didn't say anything about coming home. We desperately need to not be trying to do therapy over the phone anymore, it isn't really therapy, its just catching up over "what did you do this week?" type of thing-- which is better than nothing of course!! But its so hard to hold all this stuff in. We need her to come home so b ad.

Sending big safe hugs.

So Sorry SarahMichelle. I hope she gets here soon. In the meantime, try to have some kindness and be gentle with yourself. Safe hugs to you.

T called tonight (thank goodness-- we prayed about it all day)--she talked to some of the inside kids for a little over an hour. I know they cried a lot. They are just having a really hard time. I know a few of them having been sending her suicidal notes and talking about wanting to die. New memories have been coming up and we've been up with flashbacks at night, and some stuff has been going on thats been causing more memories to bother us. Things like that. There are a couple of the younger girls who are really struggling right now.

T said they DID have a date picked to come home (didn't say when) but that changed so they still dont know when they're coming. Argh. She is so good though that its nice to just hear her voice...not the same as real therapy though...but its good that she even tries to call. It helps. And it calms the kids down for a few days.