Luck O' the Irish!
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“Where are we going?” a desperate little voice asked. The boy was barely two. Bound hand and foot with old tattered pieces of faded water ski rope, he squirmed to get loose while lying on his side on the vinyl covered back seat of a trashed out wannabe suped up 1965 Impala... The boy began to cry, “Daddy, I’m scared!” as urine dripped through his soaked diaper and clothes and onto the seat of the car, puddling under his side. He could hear the sound of the engine rumbling and felt the vibrations it made...He momentarily flashed onto the happy times he always escaped to while sitting in front of the television watching the Alf show, back when his mommy and daddy were home, happy, and all was well...so his young mind thought.
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About the Book
This is a fictional story based on the true story of an otherwise “normal” family dealing with the obsessive, driven world of a paranoid schizophrenic young man. The action with this child starts when he is still in diapers and continues into adulthood. He walks the town dressed like a baby wearing a diaper, sucking on a pacifier one day, then the next becomes truly paranoid tying to contact aliens with a home radio “rigged” to a trash can and a fishing pole on the rooftop of his family home. Neighbors glare at the family as they manage their way through his escapades.
The imagination of this man takes him into a world where there is a pot of gold at the end of every rainbow, and lucky things happen to people who love green. This wild family trip through life leaves most wondering how they ever survived. The parents and siblings are tormented, terrified and embarrassed on a regular basis, but somehow learn to cope in the end with the humor in telling their life tales.
About the Author
As a Registered Nurse, a mother of four and the aunt of a now 32 year old young man suffering from severe paranoid schizophrenia, Virginia has learned throughout the years much about this mental disorder. The compassion she feels for her sister, her sister’s husband and their other four children has dramatically affected her understanding of this disorder. She has watched them live through so many wild family experiences, that she has come to realize the usefulness of using humor to cope with the trials. The stories throughout the years have left them both crying and laughing at the same time. These humorous yet painful stories so affected Virginia that she felt compelled to write them into this book.
Virginia currently lives in Nampa, Idaho and works as an Operating Room Nurse. She enjoys many hobbies, especially writing songs and composing music. She is involved in her church in the worship team and spends much of her time outside work and church with her husband, Jonathan, who has been a motivating force in publishing this amazing family story.
It is the hope of this author that the readers of this story are left with a greater appreciation for the people suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and what their families can go through dealing with this disorder.