Almost three months later

Still no resolution for her case. SHE is still in the facility and the visits I was supposed to have never happened. So I only have seen her ONCE--back in April--since she went in. We're supposed to be rebuilding our relationship HOW? 40 minutes of phone calls and one 50-minute telephone therapy session a week? 90 monitored minutes to mend years of pain and distrust...

SHE was supposed to come home the beginning of July, so I didn't get to go see her as promised. Then it was pushed back to the 21st. Well, that didn't happened. Nor will the new date they promised (this Friday).

Meanwhile, the court date has been rescheduled to next month because, with all the budget cuts in the county, she no longer has the same PO and the new one hasn't bothered to read her case history OR call me. I heard from the lawyer or I wouldn't have known that much. I expect that, in order to keep the Medicaid coverage, the judge may order her into foster care instead of letting her come home--when they finally bring her back.

Unfortunately, the longer they wait, the more is being undone. SHE gets very upset when she thinks a promise (whether made or not) has been broken. All the delays are busting her hump and she is getting whiny and belligerent again. SHE is also starting to fall back on her old coping habits of demanding crap she knows she can't possibly have as well as pining for the same asshat friends that got her where she is now.

There are other stresses--my job and the changes there, unresolved issues with her father (coming out here WITH his mother and never bothering to let her meet her granddaughter KNOWING WE LIVE RIGHT DOWN THE ROAD from where they were staying? BULLSHIT!) and the crippling ennui I have for doing anything to prepare for the eventual homecoming...

I keep talking an upbeat game to her but no one is doing that for me. :(