Frizlefrak
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Sometimes life throws you a curveball.....
Here's the Reader's Digest condensed version: My mom is 82. In early March, she got pneumonia and was hospitalized, and then spent 6 weeks in a rehab facility that she absolutely hated. She can't live alone anymore...very limited mobility, weak, needs a walker, and starting to fall a lot....you get the picture. My "siblings" have both essentially thrown their hands up in the air and told me it's my problem, so she has lived with us since April. If I mention the words "assisted living" she goes into a frenzy...doesn't want to spend the last of her cash on that....wants to leave it to my brother that hasn't been to see her in 7 years and calls her twice a year if he isn't too busy (do I sound bitter? Sorry). I can afford to pay a portion of the cost of her assisted living, and her SS and pension would make up the rest, but she wants to live with us and stash away her monthly pension and social security so she can.....wait for it.....leave it to my brother. She doesn't admit that....but she pines for his attention....not tough to figure out. But I digress.
My sis was supposed to retire from the govt this year and take her....which she has put mom off month by month for the last year.....kinda like Lucy yanking the football away from Charlie Brown. I've given up on it happening. I even went back to work this year, as having her is costing us more. Wifey is retired and stays home with her (God I married a great woman)....we have a woman come in 3 times a week to help Mom bathe.
So this whole summer, the RV sat in my driveway. We can't take her with us camping (she can't climb the stairs or get in the truck), and even if we could, what would be the point? She's cranky, needy, talks incessantly, and has a hair trigger for butt hurt. Wouldn't exactly be relaxing for us. So basically, I have almost $80,000 worth of equipment sitting idle....I drive the truck a couple times a week to keep it healthy, but that's a lot of truck that isn't getting used for what it was intended.
I would miss the truck and trailer more than I can express. Summer is almost over, and it's a write off. Someone please talk me out of selling it.....and if you have any ideas, I'm all ears. :-\
Here's the Reader's Digest condensed version: My mom is 82. In early March, she got pneumonia and was hospitalized, and then spent 6 weeks in a rehab facility that she absolutely hated. She can't live alone anymore...very limited mobility, weak, needs a walker, and starting to fall a lot....you get the picture. My "siblings" have both essentially thrown their hands up in the air and told me it's my problem, so she has lived with us since April. If I mention the words "assisted living" she goes into a frenzy...doesn't want to spend the last of her cash on that....wants to leave it to my brother that hasn't been to see her in 7 years and calls her twice a year if he isn't too busy (do I sound bitter? Sorry). I can afford to pay a portion of the cost of her assisted living, and her SS and pension would make up the rest, but she wants to live with us and stash away her monthly pension and social security so she can.....wait for it.....leave it to my brother. She doesn't admit that....but she pines for his attention....not tough to figure out. But I digress.
My sis was supposed to retire from the govt this year and take her....which she has put mom off month by month for the last year.....kinda like Lucy yanking the football away from Charlie Brown. I've given up on it happening. I even went back to work this year, as having her is costing us more. Wifey is retired and stays home with her (God I married a great woman)....we have a woman come in 3 times a week to help Mom bathe.
So this whole summer, the RV sat in my driveway. We can't take her with us camping (she can't climb the stairs or get in the truck), and even if we could, what would be the point? She's cranky, needy, talks incessantly, and has a hair trigger for butt hurt. Wouldn't exactly be relaxing for us. So basically, I have almost $80,000 worth of equipment sitting idle....I drive the truck a couple times a week to keep it healthy, but that's a lot of truck that isn't getting used for what it was intended.
I would miss the truck and trailer more than I can express. Summer is almost over, and it's a write off. Someone please talk me out of selling it.....and if you have any ideas, I'm all ears. :-\