Dementia Driving: The Update
7 years ago
There's a reason I haven't been posting, drawing, or much of anything this past 20 or so days. Its my GF's Mother situation. Her Step-dad(I use that term loosely) ran out on Valentines Day, and her Mother drove around looking for him, calling him about 35+ times, only to end up at a gas station two miles away, car wrecked and no Knowledge where she was and unable to remember that she HAD a wreck in the first place. GF had the paramedics take her to the hospital where she was diagnosed with a bleed in her brain around her vision center, fucking with her eyesight. After going thru all the paperwork at her mom's house, my GF found out that her Step-dad had hid the severity of mom's dementia/Alzheimer's and had run up three different credit cards, took a mortgage on the house, and was delinquent on the payments of the new truck(which he took) that had been bought for him. Just to add insult to injury, he called on the 16th to demand that my GF's mom send him $300 Western Union to his location. Not ask, not beg, but demanded it. I can officially say that his free ride is over. He hasn't come back, and I have a feeling that he wont....if he's smart. Right now we're working on getting things in order financially, paying bills, cancelling services no longer needed, sorting thru legal paperwork and weighing our options. On the medical front, her mom isn't doing so well. Other than the few lucid conversations we've had the first few days with her, she mostly sleeps and spouts nonsense. I really don't know when she'll ever get out of the hospital, and if she does, where will she go? Right now I'm so mad at that asshole I'd probably kill him on sight....or at least get in the "kill him on sight" line behind my GF, her brother, her son, other assorted relatives....
Right now I've done little else than to sketch in my sketchbook, but I'd REALLY like to do more comics.....
Right now I've done little else than to sketch in my sketchbook, but I'd REALLY like to do more comics.....
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Also *hugs*