i might be gone for a while

[jdbnsn]

Omega-

My heart goes out to you and your family, especially your sister. I see cases like this often and it always makes my stomach drop to the floor. I hope with all my heart that she improves and enjoys the best quality of life possible. This is clearly not easy for any of you, so we are all here to support you however we can.

Jon

[Omega]

Due to the ease of use, we have a blog up:

http://sarastatus.blogspot.com

All updates will be put there.

[Omega]

Anybody who reads the blog might have seen this already, but here's a link anyways:

The Community Voice

The Community Voice is a local newspaper that's running a week-long online article about my sister. They are going to leave it up as the main article online for a week and possibly publish it in the next weekly installment of the paper version.


Man. It's so surreal, knowing that the largest/second largest website in Sonoma County has my sister on the homepage. =|

[armadilloben]

omega im so sorry i didnt read this thread till now i feel so bad reading the thread brought tears to my eyes (and im not relle an emotional person) and the strength that you have is amazing i would be flipping ****s right now if i was in the same position i read all of the stuff u posted including the blog and i almost want to be in that room (albeit that'd be weird) were all praying for sara and shes gonna get better
my grandpa is in the hospital as well
hes had emphysema for like 8-9 years so i know how u feel well actually i dont but you understand
best of luck to sara and im relle glad shes communicating

sincerily -ben

[Commando]

Good luck Omega,

We're thinking about your sister and your family.

Trust me Matthew, aside from the few moments when my mind manifests the bad possibilities (which isn't often), I'm relatively calm and collected, if not almost too calm. People tend to think I'm high because I am so calm most of the time.

It's totally ok. We all deal with stress differently. Being calm and collected helps those around you more than you think.

Hang in there. Life tests us all the time. Especially when you least expect it.

[Omega]

omega im so sorry i didnt read this thread till now i feel so bad reading the thread brought tears to my eyes (and im not relle an emotional person) and the strength that you have is amazing i would be flipping ****s right now if i was in the same position i read all of the stuff u posted including the blog and i almost want to be in that room (albeit that'd be weird) were all praying for sara and shes gonna get better
my grandpa is in the hospital as well
hes had emphysema for like 8-9 years so i know how u feel well actually i dont but you understand
best of luck to sara and im relle glad shes communicating

sincerily -ben

Ben,

I have been going bat**** insane for the past 8 days. Hell, I've cried more in the past week than... ever, I think. A lot of people are worried about our entire family, but I'm concealing my mind so that people worry about the person who actually needs it right now. Whatever my problems are pale in comparison to Sara's right now. You have no idea how many people have asked me if I'm alright in the past two days alone. Hell, that alone is driving me insane. But I'll deal with it, and there's more important things to deal with now.

Me and my mom were talking earlier. She said Sara had a hard day. Recently I've grown a set and I've taken it upon myself to keep things in perspective, even if I come off as abrasive or crass to my mom. I merely told her "This is the 8th hard day in a long, long chain of hard days, mom". I've also had to remind her (sadly to no avail, yet) that she needs to stop going to the hospital every day and she needs to get working (Independent Contractor, no work = no pay).

Really, all I want for this family right now is to ensure that we still have a place to live, electricity, food, internet, etc. Sara's on her stepmother's healthcare at the moment, but once that runs out (hopefully not soon), we get to bear the burden of all the medical bills. Fun.

Anywho, I'm rambling. On to the next post...

Good luck Omega,

We're thinking about your sister and your family.

Trust me Matthew, aside from the few moments when my mind manifests the bad possibilities (which isn't often), I'm relatively calm and collected, if not almost too calm. People tend to think I'm high because I am so calm most of the time.

It's totally ok. We all deal with stress differently. Being calm and collected helps those around you more than you think.

Hang in there. Life tests us all the time. Especially when you least expect it.

Oh, I know just how much my calmness helps others. If I can radiate an aura of quiet, collected strength, others around me will pick up on that and relax more (and possibly do the same). As I said, I'm tripping the **** out right now and I have been since this all started. Nobody else knows that but me (well, and you guys) and that's for a reason. As I said before, if they knew I was flipping ****s, they wouldn't be focusing on Sara as much.

Oh, and I know how life tests us. God, do I know. I may be 16 and living with a nice family in a nice, relatively quiet suburb in California, but my life hasn't come without it's bumps (of which there've been lots). I don't really want to ramble on about my life, but I've almost always had family issues (My father abused me, general abrasiveness, etc) and such and this is no exception to the fact.



Nobody said life was gonna be easy. If only it were.

EDIT:

Man, it's still so surreal seeing my own writing on one of the major news websites for my area. I think they've been watching TBCS, too. On the front page, it says:

""Just so you guys know, I might not be here for a while. My sister got in a car accident. I'll keep you posted." The rather ominous post on an Internet message board about a week ago by Tech High student Michael Baker couldn't begin to tell the story of what's currently happening to his older sister, Sara. Quotes in this article are from a blog updating Sara's condition, which can be viewed at http://sarastatus.blogspot.com. It began Oct. 26 and continues to monitor and update on Sara's status."


Sound familiar? Yeah. They used some more of my updates through the article before using my mom's (Because my mom is more up to date).

http://www.thecommunityvoice.com/


It really is strange seeing my sister on the front page there.


-Omega

[xRyokenx]

God... I suck at thinking of things to say... umm... Take it easy?

I am glad you're not hitting rock bottom, this will get better soon... it always does. If I were a man that prayed, I would pray for your whole family, but since I am not, you have my best wishes and I will keep mentally willing your sister to good health.

Take it easy, dude.

[crenn]

Just bumping this up.

[Aero]

Holy crap, I can't believe I missed this thread. Thanks for the bump crenn.

Omega, I hope eveything is going well. I've added your blog to my list of daily items to check, so its now amoung the ranks of gmail, TBCS, woot, facebook, and Craigslist. Agiain I hope the best for your sister, it sounds like things are getting better, slowly, but uphill none the less. Thats always good. Please keep us all up to date if anything major comes up.

Best of luck.

-Curtis

[armadilloben]

yeh i also check the blog daily just to see if shes getting better
omega u relle got me good.
and all i can say is we all support u guys and especially sara

-ben