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[Lifes Twists]

Hi I am Newbie here December 31, 2013.
It all started for me one year ago tonight. I got very sick starting one year ago. Had severe fevers and delirious for several days. I got over the fevers, but had great difficulty breathing. Over the next 2 months I was in and out of hospitals.I was put on prednisone late in February and reacted very badly to it. I ended up under psychiatric care while the weaned me off of the prednisone. The Doctors communicated with my wife and decided after talking to her that they would not release me till they found a acceptable place for me to go. They contacted my parents and arranged for me to be released into their care. Shortly after getting home I was served with divorce papers.

My wife and daughters refused to communicate with me. They stayed in the house till the end of March and moved out on Easter Sunday. I tried to get my wife to talk about it and slow things down. She told me she was done.

Since she had a lawyer, I felt I needed to get one as well. Unfortunately my first lawyer was useless. The first Court date my wife got everything she wanted. I did a lot of reading and searching on line. Decided to fire my lawyer and get a new one. Meanwhile I had little to no contact with daughters or wife.

I worked with my new lawyer and tried to get an agreement worked out. I did some communication with my wife and thought we had one. Her lawyer caused a lot of issues and we got no wheres.

The turning point happened during the second court appearance. My attorney work with me and got really prepared. My wife's attorney thought it would be a cake walk and did not prepare. My wife lost a lot of ground. Her lawyer demanded a court date. My wife thought it would have been finished and she did not have enough money to continue on. She finally figured out that lawyers are into divorces for the money they can make. She fired her attorney and the filed to have the divorce dropped. This was in early October.

I have continued to make in roads with my daughters and have been rebuilding the relationship I have with them.

My wife has softened a bit. We spent thanksgiving and Christmas Eve together with the girls.

A little history on my wife. She has suffered from depression since her teens and has been on antidepressants since her teens. She is on the maximum dose and under very little supervision from the medical community.

We have been married for 20 years. We dated for about a year before we got married.

I will post more tomorrow.