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Tonkka
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I just got done talking to my half sister about certain things that are happening with my "parents".
Some of you may remember that my mother is suffering from some brain problems. Diagnosis have ranged from multiple sclerosis to Alzheimer's. They still don't know what is wrong with my mom's head, aside from she has constant headaches and can't remember certain things.
Gut to tonight where I find out that my stepfather keeps trying to work on the yard and such and apparently almost broke his foot. It turned out to just be a sprain, but since my mother's brain doesn't work correctly right now, he drives himself to the emergency room and calls my sister to let her know that my mother is at home alone and he is at the hospital.
All the while I am at work, with no knowledge that any of this is happening.
I talked to my sister about all this shit tonight, and there are more things going on, but god damn.
So what's happening with your family?
Some of you may remember that my mother is suffering from some brain problems. Diagnosis have ranged from multiple sclerosis to Alzheimer's. They still don't know what is wrong with my mom's head, aside from she has constant headaches and can't remember certain things.
Gut to tonight where I find out that my stepfather keeps trying to work on the yard and such and apparently almost broke his foot. It turned out to just be a sprain, but since my mother's brain doesn't work correctly right now, he drives himself to the emergency room and calls my sister to let her know that my mother is at home alone and he is at the hospital.
All the while I am at work, with no knowledge that any of this is happening.
I talked to my sister about all this shit tonight, and there are more things going on, but god damn.
So what's happening with your family?
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but i hope yours is alright, @Tonkka.
She also just decided this week that she wants to go back to school and finish her Masters degree, because she literally doesn't know how to slow down.
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It will. Sometimes, it's just a matter of shutting up and accepting what they do without causing a scene. I can put up with that. At the end of the day you still love them.
Here is two songs appropriate of the topic, I think.
My Mum's missing him dearly, but she's kept busy with a humongous about of substitute teacher work. Seriously, I think she's gotten more work over the last five months than she got in the previous two years.
My eldest brother and his girlfriend, both my tenants and roommates, had a large falling out and looked like they might finish it, which parts of my family were hoping for because she can be pretty dominating, but they're staying together on a trial basis. I'm skeptical of its long term viability, but this is for Reasons™ that might not be best to expound on here.
My older-but-not-oldest brother and his wife are busy raising the first grandchild of both families. He is adorbs! However her father has got several tumours and the ensuing chemo wipes him out. It was no surprise to me that they gave the baby his name as a middle name. They also gave him my Dad's name as a second middle name, which is pretty unusual, although this brother of mine also has it due to a cousin of Mum's who died around the time he was born.
The eldest of my younger sisters is soldiering on with her job, her boyfriend and various fundraising endeavors for charity. He's a nice bloke. Unlike my brother's relationship, my Mum thinks this will go somewhere.
The next younger sister is over in England working at a school for kids with learning and behavioral difficulties. More the latter than the former. Chair legs were involved once. But thankfully she wasn't hurt and this is just the work experience part of her Master's degree, so hopefully she can pack it in after August once she hands in her dissertation.
My youngest sister is still in school, but 18 and eyeing Volkswagen Golfs wherever she goes. She's studying for her A Level exams but has two disadvantages in this regard: Her studies were disrupted by appendicitis, and she has very poor processing power: Reciting what she's learned is easy peasy, but processing that knowledge, using the information to arrive at a new conclusion is difficult for her, rather like getting the round peg to the round hole and trying to put it in sideways. She faces the possibility of repeating the last year of school or going to a technical college to improve her grades to get into University, because grade requirements are pretty ridiculous right now.
Upcoming birthdays: Brother #1, his girlfriend
Mid term plans: After my sister's exams, send Mum to France for a week or two to keep Dad company.
Long term plans: In August me, my Parents and Sisters #1 and #2 are going to California. I had hoped Brother #1 would come along too - it would make his birthday pretty easy this year - but with trying to rekindle his relationship that's out the window. Sister #3 was invited, but she took a funny notion and didn't want to go. I think teachers have beat it into her head that she shouldn't take that time off because of exam results, even though they're out almost two weeks before we leave. There was also talk of going to Chicago and sending Brother #2 to meet up with us there as another birthday present, but we dropped Chicago from the itinerary due to cost and settled on an iPad instead, which he could turn into a photo album of the baby.
So that's what's going on in my family right now. Sounds pretty boring when I think about it.
He's so excited about retirement. It's adorable.
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My son was initially terrified of a room full of old grey haired people, but warmed up eventually. The place was clean and the staff were friendly... but dammit are nursing homes creepy and disturbing!
My brother is generally rad and has just bought a ridiculously huge and nice house because he is apparently rich.
I am by far the least impressive and interesting member of my family.
You are a T-Rex who has beaten adversity to rise through the ranks of a secret international military organisation to command a crack team of soldiers in Earth's only line of defence against alien invaders. I'd say that's pretty interesting.
i don't know where she's going to find the time in between building a house in tasmania, travelling around iceland, joining the greens and running for the senate
totally believe she could do all of those things at once though
Just a slight correction.
So my depressed mother is working herself to death at a job that she hates because she's the only one bringing in any money. My Uncle (my father's brother) now lives with them to help pay rent, but he is also there because he has severe PTSD and is too paranoid to live on his own. So he might lose his job because sometimes he just doesn't go to work when he thinks that he's being followed.
I'm really excited to see the three of them this weekend...
My paternal grandfather is slowly losing his mind to Alzheimer's. We have tried to give him a fair range of autonomy because he hasn't done much to get himself into trouble. Well, last week my grandmother asked him to go to the local American Legion post to pick up some free food for the elderly/less fortunate and he ended up driving 40 miles away and got lost in Gary, IN. My aunt and uncle happened to be free that afternoon and they had to go collect him. It was really sad and subsequently he isn't allowed to drive anymore.
My father is a city official and that brings all kinds of stess, but he loves the job and loves the city. He is currently in the middle of a stressful lawsuit involving damage done to the city ice rink by some local youths (technically adults under the law). The town is pretty divided about what has gone on, and a bevy of false information has caused my dad some stress due to people reacting poorly to said false information.
My mom is a bank teller and she both loves and hates her job. Loves the people, hates the management. She has a bit of a green thumb, so she has been planting up a storm the last two weeks.
My brother is in high school, just got his first job and should be getting his driver's license soon.
My sister has moved away from home and goes out and drinks a lot. She and her drunk friends got pulled over by the police the other night and that caused a ton of problems. So that's fun.
We're all worried about you though, The Geek.
This thread is secretly an intervention.
My mother is only barely in the church, deciding to not follow traditions because of a bad experience with a church leader in the past. She isn't against it, but she doesn't trust a formal institution to handle things right. This causes great grief with my father, who is still really into the church. She does a lot of passive-aggressive jabs at him, and he just talks ill of her in his long rants he does about everything. They both lost the message the church has been repeating for a long time of "If the church is causing family problems then stop coming to church, we value healthy families over commitment to a ritual."
My father has been working 10 hour shifts seven days a week for years now to support the family. My parents have been through bankruptcy and multiple layoffs from really needed jobs while raising us. My father studied computer networking around 2000, but before he could get a job in that field an advancement of technology made his studies obsolete.
Mom has some pretty severe brain problems that are untreated, terrible temper, depression, and is just all around kinda loony. But she's out working again, which has helped some. Yesterday we had an awkward discussion on religion and I lied about still having faith. Pick your battles, right?
Sister is going to college, making good grades, and just being your typical kid! Not much else going on.
This leaves my dad alone in his place downtown now, and me and the soon-to-be have since moved an hour and a half west out of the city. I bring our son (his 4th grandson) over quite often (not as much as I should) and our relationship if anything has actually finally strengthened into some sort of adult understanding of life. I plan to start tackling tv series and movies with my dad once a week, now that the dust has really settled, my work situation is smoothed out a bit, and I can acknowledge the friendship he is now missing (and needing) in his life. (for instance i cannot wait to strap the oculus rift on the old mans head.) He's a tech-friendly guy too, but just barely manages his iPad with my help (yes I bought it for him :P), though watching him and my 2 year old learn the iOS tech at the same time has been amazing for me. (and my kid is really not that much slower with it.)
Yup that's it. I do love my family, and am thankful I can say that. (Except I have an uncle who is kind of lame...) ... But like %95.
my dad is in constant pain in either his back or leg or both
also sometimes he is an asshole
overall i love my family
oh and my cousin got busted for violation of probation and he is 17 so do me a favor and nuke my hometown
I will announce it at dinner with a 2 week window.
And it will be an absolute shitstorm.
So I have that to look forward to again soon. His weight has ballooned up recently, and I can barely hold him up when he begins to pass out, but he still doesn't want to do anything to help himself. Its driving my mother crazy, and she's driving all of us crazy.
Not to mention the continued financial diffculties our family has been having. Since I am turning into the principal care-giver for my mom and dad, and they're only 62 at this point, I'm having some issues with it. I'll do it, because I love them, but with all my issues too, it's going to be difficult and I just hope I'm up to it.
EDIT: Not to mention that dad has been hard to live with because his attitude and emotional state has been up and down due to these problems, and he had to quite work about 3-4 years ago and still wants to go back. He hates being at home. Hates being with my mom all the time and is making life miserable for us and himself.
Other Gran is a fucking rockstar, mid eighties and just stubborned her way through three weeks of hospitalization for pancreatitis, mows her own lawn, takes care of her church lady friends, babysits my young cousins constantly, and still has time to give me crap for not visiting more often. She's rad and I want to be her when I grow up.
I hear from my brothers when I do - we don't dislike each other, we're just lousy at communication.
Wife is FAR more tolerable now that she's on break from nursing school.
I hate family.
Mom is finally going to retire this month, but is then going to get re-hired back (for a lower wage) and "double dip" with the retirement for a while (perfectly legal in this context). And by "a while" I mean, "until she can find something else to do full-time," because the woman would go nuts if she didn't have something to do.
My oldest niece graduates from high school next week and, to her chagrin, she will be doing her pre-med at KU. The hope is that she can get into actual medical school at Johns Hopkins (she wants to be a research oncologist), but she can fall back to KU med if that doesn't happen.
My wife's mother lives with us, and while she and Mrs. Shock have a strained relationship at times, they really have been working to cut the other more slack. As annoying and unsettling as it can be (and as stereotypically Sit-Com as the situation is), I am very happy that WeeShock has that close relationship with his grandmother.
My dad is busy working to get his model trains business off the ground, which isn't too bad at 65. He's always been a busy body and if he isn't sleeping/eating he is working on something or another. Still holding down a full time job so he is going full steam still at 65. My mom is waiting patiently for retirement which will never come because they'd never be able to afford to retire. that is the problem with immigrating to the UK at such a later period in life, you can't really get a house unless you can afford a 5 year mortgage and who can honestly afford one of those? Both of my dads parents died in the last few years and my moms mom has had a resurgence in her cancer so it's likely she isn't long for the world but she's an iron lady so you never know, most older generation Scottish women are. Hard as stone.
My older brother and his wife and kids are seemingly doing well but he is an eternal worrier and penny pincher so there is always some sort of scheme going on there, like a Del Boy without a Rodney. My younger brother got married last year which was nice, not much happening in his life really.
I'm still working my ass off for no real gain, looking after my wife who still struggles with her mental health issues. It's not an easy life and it would be a simple thing to let despair swallow my optimism whole but we can't be letting that happen, I'll just keep on trucking, working hard, supporting my wife and making terrible youtube videos that nobody wants to watch.
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My mom and dad are super nice. My dad's a sales/managerial guy and he works very hard. My mom takes care of the house and my dad and spends her free time painting and working on children's books that she'd like to publish some day. I'm pretty sure that they regard me as a quiet and odd sort of disappointment, but are too loving to really say anything about it.