Hope Gave Up

Yesterday afternoon, my precious Stephanie attempted suicide by taking a large dose of over-the-counter pain medicine.

She used a safety pin to try to scratch open her wrists. She used the same pin to carve the words "Hope Gave Up" into her left forearm.

She left a note that read:

I love you all
Dad, Mom and Katie
I'm sorry I hurt all of ya'll
Please forgive me

Luckily, she came to and ran outside and had a neighbor call 911. She was ambulanced to the hospital and then transferred to a local psychiatric hospital.

I spoke with her doctor an he expects her stay to be at least 4 - 5 days. She begged me to take her home at the visit I had with her this afternoon. It broke my heart to tell her, "No, not yet."

I am lost. There is so much more of this story that I am just not ready to type out yet. But I had to start.