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Feeling really sad and alone.

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squirrel3 · 17/04/2005 12:58

To understand how I am feeling you have to have a little history of my life so here goes; my childhood was less than happy, my Father was very violent, to the point he stabbed me on two separate occasions and gave me a head injury so bad it resulted in slight brain damage and slight epilepsy, my mother was uncaring, neglectful and very self-centred. She told me time and time again that she hated me and I would never amount to anything because I was nothing. When my parents split up she had countless boyfriends whom she allowed to use me as their own personal punch bag. Some people should never have kids.

However my grandparents were brilliant, I only ever felt loved, happy and safe when I was with them. My Nan past away 6 years ago and my Grandad has just been taken into hospital. My mother has not bothered with my Grandad for a few years now (the only times she has seen him she has stolen several hundreds of pounds from him).

All of a sudden she has surfaced and she is acting like the devoted daughter in front of the nurses etc but at the same time she is stealing his money, she has spoken to his consultant and put a ?do not revive order? on him without discussing it with anyone else and is demanding that his money be sorted out between her and her brothers now. He is not even dead yet!! All I want is for his last few days to be happy I don?t care about his *@@% money, I just want this to be as easy as it can possibly be for him.

DH insisted I go to a party with him last night I couldn?t cope with it, I kept checking my phone all night in case the hospital rang with bad news and I sneaked out and sat in the car to be alone, nobody noticed there were over 100 people there but DH got very angry with me and said I was being rude and is now not talking to me, this is all too hard, I feel so alone.

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reflection · 20/04/2005 16:52

Squirrel I am very proud of you. To have gone through all the things that you have and to be able to deal with this now is an amazing achievement.

Forget your mother, she can do what she likes. She can not hurt you any more. Write down everything that you want to say to your grandad and then find a private time to read it to him and leave it with a nurse to read to him again if nec. Your grandad has given you the greatest gift and that is his love. He loves you and always will, no matter what happens now you know that and he knows that you love him. You have the support of you DH and eventually you can walk away from your mother hoding your head held high. Leave her behind to fight over money but you have the wonderful love of your grandad.

I wish you well and I hope that my point of view does not offend you. xxx

squirrel3 · 21/04/2005 08:40

Refection how could that offend me?

Thank you so much...

I don't know what to say, I'm really tired and emotionally drained.

I spoke to my Uncle last night and in conversation I mentioned that I had been leaving a small amout of money in Grandads bedside locker in case he needed anything, like a new razor, shaving foam, soap ect.

I had noticed a new bottle of shaving foam in his locker and had assumed that my Uncle had got it for him but he said that it was the hospitals and there was no money in the bedside locker, he had been leaving some too and wondered were it was going.

We both came to the same conclusion and he said first "I really don't want to say this, but maybe its your mother".

AAAARRRRGGGGH!!!!!!!!

The bitch is even taking that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am sooooooo angry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't wait to be able to walk away from her...

However there is some sort of good news (maybe), Grandad is fighting so hard the consultant is saying that he is stable medically and as there is nothing more they can do medically we should be thinking about finding a home for him where he can be well looked after.

There is a case meeting today with social services to see where we go from here.

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reflection · 21/04/2005 13:37

Fab news. Hopfully if your mother thinks that he is going to pull through she will crawl away again. That will give you some more quailty time with your grandad. Good luck, try to keep him close xxxxxx

squirrel3 · 21/04/2005 15:20

I hope so reflection, but she loves to be the centre of attention and she is lapping up all of the attention she is getting from Dr's, nurses and the social services at the moment. Maybe when my Grandad is settled in a new home and she is not getting the attention she craves she'll crawl away again. Here's hoping.

We have to find three homes that we would like him to go to and do all the paperwork, hoefully we can sort it out soon and get him settled in without too much stress to him.

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