Breaking this into two posts
This will be the OMFG of today because most of this day sucked.
2:00 AM - just ready to go to bed when I hear something that sounds like it's on the roof in my closet/the attic. Never find it.
5:00 AM - my aunt calls. We think my uncle (with the brain cancer) must be dying because we all wake up to the phone telling us they're calling but by the time anyone picks up it's gone to message and she's calling to tell mom happy birthday. (This is the aunt who swears there is nothing wrong with her and refuses all help and her kids SHOULD be putting her in a home because she has dementia but they refuse to admit it)
8:00 AM we all give up on going back to sleep
9:00 AM a cousin calls to tell us her sister's husband was just diagnosed with lymphoma.
1 pm my aunt calls back this time it IS my uncle. He refused to go into hospice but he's also refusing to do anything to help himself and he's getting weaker (he's trying to watch his diet...for what?) Dad goes down, sees he's not as bad as my aunt was making out. Comes back up and gets me and a walker (because the home sent him home with just a cane and he's getting too weak for that) I show him how to a) stand up when you're too weak to raise straight up (i.e. me half the time) b) use the walker. By the time we left he was up and in the kitchen. Also told him if he didn't stay in the house on the first floor (no garage, no outside, no going to the basement, no going to the apartment) I'd be back to kick his ass. He WILL fall if he tries.
Also Aunt claims she never called at 5 AM.
An hour later my brother and his wife arrive for dinner. Things got better then...
2:00 AM - just ready to go to bed when I hear something that sounds like it's on the roof in my closet/the attic. Never find it.
5:00 AM - my aunt calls. We think my uncle (with the brain cancer) must be dying because we all wake up to the phone telling us they're calling but by the time anyone picks up it's gone to message and she's calling to tell mom happy birthday. (This is the aunt who swears there is nothing wrong with her and refuses all help and her kids SHOULD be putting her in a home because she has dementia but they refuse to admit it)
8:00 AM we all give up on going back to sleep
9:00 AM a cousin calls to tell us her sister's husband was just diagnosed with lymphoma.
1 pm my aunt calls back this time it IS my uncle. He refused to go into hospice but he's also refusing to do anything to help himself and he's getting weaker (he's trying to watch his diet...for what?) Dad goes down, sees he's not as bad as my aunt was making out. Comes back up and gets me and a walker (because the home sent him home with just a cane and he's getting too weak for that) I show him how to a) stand up when you're too weak to raise straight up (i.e. me half the time) b) use the walker. By the time we left he was up and in the kitchen. Also told him if he didn't stay in the house on the first floor (no garage, no outside, no going to the basement, no going to the apartment) I'd be back to kick his ass. He WILL fall if he tries.
Also Aunt claims she never called at 5 AM.
An hour later my brother and his wife arrive for dinner. Things got better then...