Posted by Temmie on July 16, 2003, at 20:47:01
In reply to Re: Life with a Manic Father/Grandfather » Temmie, posted by habbyshabit on July 10, 2003, at 0:38:48
I am home now from travels with boyfriend in the east. That's another story .... My poor son was in and out of the hospital five times with complications, bleeding, etc., following tonsillectomy. He called me one night in tears, "Grandpa is driving me crazy." His dad, who assured me he would be there for our child the night I left ... never showed. I couldn't believe it! Then we had relatives come (to my home here in the midwest) .... My dad's sister and two of her children. None of them could quite believe the state of my dad's mental decay, and when they'd endured all they could stand of his trash-talking and insults toward those living, dead and, in some cases, visiting in the next room -- they left. "Uncle Paul, I am never going to see you again," Jim said. Aunt Florence said she would never be back as well. Oh dear. Life in the east was complicated enough with my n'er-do-well pot-head lover, but things seem much more suffocating here. I wonder where to go to write about these things? Is anyone up for conversation? Temmie
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