I'm not doing resolutions this year. Who am I kidding? I don't even go over the stupid list until the next year. Bah.
Anyway, it's New Year's Eve and nothing new. Except well, the impending New Year. Kent and I are doing the usual parenting things and then we have nothing planned. I think I might try to seduce him or something after Riley goes to bed. Hahah. Wait, I think I'm serious.
In other news (and it's much more serious) we got an e-mail from Kent's mum last night. His younger cousin (we'll call her T) was taken to the emergency room. She hasn't been eating for awhile. Apparently T's parents suck and hadn't even noticed that she'd lost A LOT of weight. So Kent's (and T's) grandmother convinced P & R (T's parents) to finally take her in to the hospital, after trying for awhile to convince them she was losing too much weight. She's been diagnosed with an eating disorder (anorexia) and now she's in a mental facility that treats that. I feel awful because I know what it's like to be 15 and feel fat. I was almost where she is, actually. Somehow I pulled out of it on my own which is something that was very difficult. I think her problem is rooted in depression. From what I know, T hasn't had a very good home life. When they got her checked in to the better hospital they realized that she was on the edge of kidney failure. That's scary. I want to cry.
I don't know if I have some kind of complex or what, but whenever I hear about anything like this happening to people I know I always wonder if I could have helped. I always feel as though I should have known, should have done something differently. When, in reality, this would have happened whether she knew me or not. But I still feel like I should have been nicer to her (not that I was ever mean) or something. I just hope she gets better. Kent's family (especially his grandmother) has been through enough this past year.
Happy New Year everyone. (Does Bah Humbug still apply???)
9:05 pm - 31 December 2004
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