Posted by Dinah on November 9, 2004, at 20:40:46
In reply to My parents, posted by Dinah on November 8, 2004, at 22:10:47
And I suppose I'm getting paid back for not confronting my father a long time ago about how he treated my mother and brother. He has been open about detesting my mother for as long as I can remember. When my son was a preschooler I told him it was my parents' anniversary and he asked if anniversaries are what people who hated each other had. And he always has been vicious to my brother. Calls him useless, etc. I actually got hysterical once about his treatment of my brother. But he was nice enough to me. Yelled of course. But nothing really personal. Sadly I can't say this is a change.
However, I still love him. I spent the day in the emergency room with him. My mother woke me up with a call that he was semiconscious and jerking and moaning, and asked if she should call 911. Sigh. I suppose the shifting of roles is well in play if she thought she needed to ask that. It turns out his blood sugar was down to twenty. He was lucky they were sleeping together for the first time in many many years, because if she hadn't been woken up by him, he'd probably be in a coma or dead. He seems more or less ok now, but they're going to run some tests and keep him in the hospital.
Numb is good. I'm going to keep numb as long as possible.
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