PrimalConsonance
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Joined: 7/11/2009 From: Southern New Jersey Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: Lockit I was out one night and ran into a woman in a wheel chair. She was with friends and we got to talking. She had MS and as she talked I could tell she didn't feel safe. I promised to stick with her and ended up going with them to their house and I let them know that she had a friend now. She was being abused... I gave her every way to leave, but she feared more, being alone and dying alone. She accepted the abuse so that she could have someone there who might do something for her sometimes. I hadn't heard from her in a while and couldn't get ahold of her, but ran into her abuser and he told me she had died. It broke my heart because no matter what I offered or suggested, she simply couldn't face being alone and she would have been. At that stage... hell... at my stage... it is hard to find someone who will be with you. She just couldn't be without the little help he did give and face what was happening to her and it was better to be abused than to face it. I believe she died sooner than she would have, as she was doing fairly well. That abuse that this person was getting be it physical or mental most likely supports your belief I'm sure. Here is a person struggling with not only MS but abuse, which is taxing enough... but to do this without support or even the reinforcement of a positive attitude (outside of what you offered her), makes it pretty near impossible to come out of this downward spiral. What you tried to do was wonderful and hopefully you are not beating yourself up over this, she seems like she was too far gone at that point to take a chance of changing and modifying her support structure (no matter how unstable and poor it was with this abuser and all). You did the best and all you could do and that was really good of you. A tough thing to observe, and to know that possibly things could have come about better than it was I hope you never have to go through that again.
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AKA: CNJDom (types in black) and roselaure (types in Red) Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~Dr. Seuss
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