Feb 18, 2009 18:53
Things haven't been going well for the past...how long has it been? Four months?
Mom was hospitalized several times over the past few months, Aunt Molly isn't doing to well, our finances are stretched. By January I'd given up hope of having a proper birthday (Feb 16th) until a friends intervention. Meg, Anneka, Anneka's friend Jen, my sister Mary, and Mary's boyfriend Aaron went to the movies. We also grabbed a bite to eat.
Mom's condition deteriorated drastically for a while before returning to the new norm of "manic angry" or "depressed angry". I'm partly in the loop, in charge of her meds. There isn't any other way to put this. She is a danger to herself and others. I can see her attacking my dad with a golf club, accidentally cutting one of us with a knife, or overdosing on some hidden stash of pills sometime in the coming weeks.
I'll be going with Dad to her next psychiatric med doctor appointment this Thursday. It's with Doctor Wilson. He does not have my confidence.