Home Again

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So this is really my first extended stay home since moving to Charleston, and things are just weird. So I'm staying with my dad, and it's great that he is home and doing well (he was in the hospital for three weeks). That being said, he is dealing with so much right now, that he is almost impossible to be around. He has mood swings like nothing I have ever seen, and I am incredibly disappointed with Shands for not arranging, or even suggesting, that he get some kind of counseling or psychiatric help. He has, in the span of a month, quit drinking and smoking, and has been through incapacitating surgery that has left him a diabetic. He can't do anything really active for another month, aside from short walks. Honestly, I would probably not be really pleasant either. But I can see the toll it is taking on my brother and Monica, and I feel really awful for them. I have tried finding counseling referrals for him here in Gainesville, and so far have been unsuccessful.
On top of all that, my mother is pissed that I stayed here instead of going with her to do Thanksgiving in Tampa with my sisters, and she is not taking my calls. I leave tomorrow morning, and I will be bummed if I don't get to see her this weekend. Vic has been too busy getting drunk with his friends to even go get lunch or coffee or even talk for a minute. I know we live together and this is his chance to see the people he DOESN'T get to see everyday, but he is still my boyfriend, and he is really the only one here in Gainesville that I still have that isn't family.
Just can't wait for Christmas.