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To: zoltaneering who wrote (109966)	12/12/2018 3:18:48 AM
From: Intrepid1	5 Recommendations Recommended By Drygulch Dan Honey_Bee Stock Puppy Thehammer Triffin Respond to of 458980

Glad you and your family are safe. From experience, the shock will eventually wear off. It helps that you had a positive police response. Don't feel obliged to re-live your horror here on the board. Just keep posting your great posts.

To: zoltaneering who wrote (109966)	12/12/2018 10:08:13 AM
From: Carolyn	1 Recommendation Recommended By John Carragher Respond to of 458980

Prayers for you and your family. We had a home invasion so I can understand.

To: zoltaneering who wrote (109966)	12/12/2018 11:03:32 AM
From: Honey_Bee	1 Recommendation Recommended By Stock Puppy Respond to of 458980

I'm glad you are safe - wishing and praying for peace for you.

To: zoltaneering who wrote (109966)	12/12/2018 11:44:49 AM
From: slowmo	3 Recommendations Recommended By Drygulch Dan Honey_Bee Woody_Nickels Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 458980

Millions of people don't know the feelings you have, they will pass. Arm and train yourself, secure your home, you will now be proactive and aware, not reactive....police cannot protect you......only you can!

To: zoltaneering who wrote (109966)	12/13/2018 6:31:40 PM
From: zoltaneering	9 Recommendations Recommended By DMaA Intrepid1 locogringo rxbond slowmo and 4 more members Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 458980

"A little request... Yesterday (Monday) evening as I was sleeping I had a very bad thing happen - an attempted home invasion into the rear of my home. If possible, I would really appreciate a few thoughts and prayers, as I am really having trouble dealing with this. I might try to post a brief summary of what happened tomorrow (or in another day or so). Respectfully, please don't ask me questions, because I have pretty much shut down all computer activity for the near-foreseeable future and I don't want folks to feel bad that I haven't responded. Again, your thoughts and prayers would be very much appreciated and will surely help me get through this. Many thanks to all of you on this discussion board! PS: Kudos to the local police for a very quick and massive response. Unfortunately the invaders sped off just before the police arrived. Kudos also to the wonderful Police lady who came early this morning and spent about an hour performing forensics. Apparently the invaders wore gloves - so she informed me that although it will very likely be unusable, further forensic analysis will be performed at their lab." ---------------------------------------------------------------- My (not so) "brief summary" as promised… Lately I have a new “schedule” for sleep. I go to bed between 9P and 10P - then rise the next morning at 4AM - latest. On Monday 12/10 I split the difference and went to bed at 9:30P. I went to sleep almost immediately (very unusual for me). However, I awoke about 45 minutes later to some loud and strange noises. At first I thought I was still asleep and was having a nightmare. The noise stopped, so I thought that was the end of it. I tried getting back to sleep to no avail and then the noises started again. OK, so then I thought it was a critter - probably a raccoon. I decided to get up, put my shoes on, go into the back yard and check things out. I didn’t get very far. I walked down the hallway, started to go through the living room - and at that very instant glass was now being blown out in one of the living room windows. Making matters worse, I could now see a “figure” standing on the back patio. I have always had problems with stress, anxiety, depression, panic attacks, etc. But it has been fairly well managed for the past decade or so. I still have occurrences - but not as many and not as severe. But Monday evening was obviously an exception. After the glass was shattered I ran into the kitchen, grabbed the phone, ran into the front bedroom and tried to dial 911. I was shaking so badly I couldn’t even dial the phone. After about 5 or 6 tries - success! But when the 911 operator answered I could hardly string a simple sentence together. She was very nice, very patient, and together we got through it. While I was trying to answer her questions, that “figure” (I saw at the back of the house) casually walked down the side of my house and got in the passenger side of a car (with a driver waiting) in front of my house. They instantly sped away. Within a minute or two after that two police cars arrived, searched around the house and then came in to question me. I really didn’t have much to contribute by way of descriptions. The best I could do was tell them I thought it was a silver SUV with two guys in it. They told me there were officers that are now searching surrounding streets while we continued our discussion. We wrapped things up about 20 minutes after that and I went outside with them. By this time there were seven squad cars outside! The officers even went to neighbor’s houses to see if any of them had usable security camera footage. (Unfortunately no such luck on that). I then thanked all of the officers for their help. Needless to say, but I was “a huge mess” that evening and even up to today. Still getting “the shakes”, still having some memory issues, still misplacing things and then searching for them, still doing - and sometimes saying “stupid stuff” that just doesn’t make sense. On the bright side however, I think I am gradually improving. The smashed window is being replaced as I write this. The sofa that I plop down on to watch TV is situated right in front of the broken window. I boarded up the window, but I haven’t been able to sit on the sofa because the image of that “figure” was right on the outside of that widow - directly behind where I sit - and it just keeps haunting me. No rush - but I might try to watch TV tonight - or maybe it will take a few more days - so be it. The problem is most of what I watch are Law & Order (all versions) and other such programs - particularly the oldies. “The Closer” is one of my favorites and (until this happened) I tried to watch it each weeknight. Anyway, I didn’t mean to make this so long-winded and apologize for that. I thank God that this didn’t end catastrophically. And again I thank all of you good folks for your thoughts and prayers. I hope to return here soon, but I think that I have some more “mind mending” to do before I can do that. God bless and good luck to you all!