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Crappiest 5 days off
Amazingly work had scheduled me with 5 days off! I thought that it seemed fantastic. My mom even said she would come out from Indiana to visit and pick up the extra dressers and bed we had and take them home. I thought that it was a wonderul idea! I could show her around and we could have a great time!
Well I also decided to not give our son his pacifier, it actually went smoothly but now he wakes up at 5am and not 6:30 or 7am.
Anyhoo, The plan was for my mom to leave thursday and take the trip in two days, so she would be here friday at around noon or 1. Thursday she starts getting everything together and she left at 5am. She had to back track to pick up my aunt (3 hour drive towards iowa). They get halfway to her house and my aunt was screaming she didn't have her medications so they drove back to her house. They got near my mom's house at 4pm... so that's really when they left.
Friday my mom was calling me and calling me so frustrated. APparently my aunt's medications are not any life necessary drugs... she just abuses them. My mom said she was so messed up from them that she could not wake her up. She got lost in new york because she couldn't look at the map and drive (i know what she's talking about). Second they had to stop every 30 min because my aunt was either hungry or so messed up she would get lost in the bathroom. My mom even said she was found sitting on the floor in the bathroom with all her pills spread around her. They get to our town at 9:30pm.
ugh, Saturday they were to come over early, my mom wanted to see us. But the aunt was so messed up she didn't wake up till 1pm. My mom left her at the hotel. my mom got a phone call from her saying she was walking around the town not knowing where she was and locked herself out of the room. Somehow, my mom knocked some sense into her and we actually went out to dinner. It was nice and relaxing surprisingly.
Sunday.. we were to go up to the beach. The aunt would not wake up. My mom left her at the hotel. Came here and I said I would take her to lunch. We went and checked on her and found her sitting in front of the microwave. She could barely walk. We couldn't understand a word she said. I started recording her. She fell over in the bathroom because she passed out. We picked her up and put her on the bed. put cold rags on her. Got something to eat and came back and she was still in the same place. So we went to load up the truck.
When my mom got back, fire trucks were at the hotel. Apparently she had tried to heat up her bagel.... Everyone was ok. It was just smoke.. no apparant blazing fire. But my mom was pissed, as was I. My mom got her into the car and they left.
She's been an abuser as long as i've known her. It's only gotten worse. We've tried to get her help she doesn't want it. I've decided for what's best for my child is to cut ties with her until she gets help. I can't fathom why she would want to live like this. It hurts.
Sorry so long, just needed to kind of vent.
Re: Crappiest 5 days off
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Wow. That's insane. The PPs are right, you're doing the right thing.
I'm just so sorry you had all that crap go on during you five days off!