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September 27, 2005
Decide Already pt 3
About two months after my dad first told my mom he wanted a divorce - the first in a series announcements - I got a call from my mom. "Brian, I just wanted you to know that your father has been involuntarily committed."
"What? Committed?"
"Yes. He's been committed. He's at the psychiatric hospital for at least three days."
"What the hell? What happened?"
"Well, your father spoke to a doctor and that doctor determined that your father was in danger and they needed to watch him."
"Hey. I get it. He's committed. But why?" I never figured that my dad would be committed. I asked which parent of mine was most likely to be committed I'd have told you it was my mother.
"First of all, I want to say that it's not my fault. There's nothing I could have done to get your father committed. It's something he did -- what he said to the doctors that were there to help him."
"Mom. What did you do?"
"You know how your father has been so depressed lately? Well, he was at the hospital for surgery and ..."
"Wait. Dad was in the hospital for what surgery?" I'm a bad son and since my mother told me my dad wants to divorce her (without announcing that they will get divorced) I hadn't called them very much, if at all.
"Your father was in the hospital for a colonoscopy surgery."
"Is that the one where they cut out your ass and put in a shit-bag?"
"No, that's...I don't know. A colonoscopy is where they."
"Colonectomy. That's the one."
"No. He was there for a colonoscopy. They were looking inside him for cancer."
"Why, do they think he has cancer?"
"No. It's just part of his new thing. He's got to look good for his new girlfriends, you know. He's jogging. He's down to 160 pounds."
"So, he's losing weight fast and they were checking for cancer?"
"No. He's just on a health kick."
"So this is nothing serious? Why was he committed?"
"They asked him if he was depressed and he said a little. So I said,'It's more than a little.' And I told them about him putting a loaded, cocked shotgun to his head."
"And..."
"I don't know he asked me to leave. I don't know what they asked him after that, but they decided he was enough of a danger to himself to commit him."
"Ok. First off. You guys are getting divorced, right?"
"Well we are now. You father will think of this as the ultimate betrayal."
"So, you don't want a divorce but you do something like this knowing that he'll think it's the 'ultimate betrayal' and want a divorce?"
"Brian, it's nothing I did."
"But, why were you even there? I mean, I thought you're supposed to be getting a divorce. Why were you in the room? Second. Why did you bring that shit up then?"
"I was scared for him."
"Scared? It happened over a month ago. You didn't say anything then. But then you bring it up when he's getting preventative surgery? Like, so he won't, you know, die."
"Brian, it's just the first chance I got to bring it up. I wanted to help him. It's not my fault he was committed."
"I'm not saying it is. I'm not blaming you. I don't know the whole story, but it sounds like you bringing that up was a little out of place."
"That's what your father thinks too. He thinks I planned it."
"Did you?"
"How could I have known what would happen?"
"Didn't you work for the crisis center that did this sort of stuff?"
Posted by calculatoronfire at September 27, 2005 09:53 AM
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Dude she talked to dads regular doctor and her priest before (when the shotgun thing happened). She totally planned it. your mom is crazy, I'm glad I was switched at birth in the Danish hospital!
Posted by: nick at September 27, 2005 05:03 PM