September 19, 2008

• This has been one of the hardest weeks of my life. This week made the 8 month battle with cancer feel like a breeze. My oldest son was arrested last weekend. Apparently he and his Army buddies went out drinking, Dan got shitfaced and they all decided they were going to be bounty hunters. ARGH!!!!  Dan was arrested for vandalism because they broke a window, breaking and entering because they went into the guys house and impersonating an officer because they were in uniform. He was looking at felony charges. I just felt sick. I didn't know he'd been arrested till I got a call from his gf asking if I'd heard from him. He just bought a motorcycle so I was seriously freaking out. Later she called and said she got a strange collect call from the Orange County Jail system. She didn't accept the call because she thought it was a mistake. I jumped online and looked up my son's name. Sure enough, he'd been arrested. I just felt heartsick. I had my routine colonoscopy on Tuesday and went straight from the hospital to the courthouse. The impersonating charge was dropped as soon as they realized he was indeed on duty but the other two charges stuck. He's doing 30 days in jail, has 3 years of informal probation, a no-trespassing order against him from the guy who's house they broke into and he has to pay restitution to said guy. I just want to bang my head on the nearest brick wall.  I thought if this ever happened to my child I'd be mad as hell but I'm not, I'm anguished. When I saw him in court, he started to cry. He was sitting there with all these other guys in an orange jumpsuit and they were lounging and had obviously all been through it before. Not my boy, he just looked at me and mouthed, "I'm sorry" over and over again. It broke my heart in pieces. I'm going to visit him this weekend and am looking forward to it. This isn't his first run-in over alcohol but will hopefully be his last. No matter what they do, we always love them no matter what!

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