Friday, November 14, 2008

Cast of characters:
Alzheimer's mother - 75 year old very talented artist, gardener, loving mother of three
Sickly Twin - daughter
Legal Guardian Twin - daughter
Little old me - oldest daughter
Uncle and Aunt Goat - Brother & SIL of first husband of Alzheimer's mother
Retired army Uncle and new wife - brother of Alzheimer mother
Die in debt ex-husband - Alzheimer's mother second husband
Racist ex-husband now new husband - legal guardian twin's ex and now new husband in GA.



I can now see the light at the end of the tunnel for my Alzhemier mother's welfare. It has been a battle between three sisters how mother's golden years should be spent.

My mother turned 75 years old October 19th, she has had Alzheimer's the past 10 -15 years. Her now ex-husband spend nearly all of the money my dairy farmer father had earned before his death in 1986, his daughters (the twins and I) got rid of him last year before he could sell our family farm, after a messy divorce from "I plan to die in deep debt husband" my mother's golden years are again up in the air to be decided by the courts.

Since Alzheimer mother couldn't live alone my younger sister, one of the twins, became her legal guardian with the other two sister's blessing. A big mistake since this younger sister is easily depressed, can't handle emotional problems and blames others for her bad choices she has made in her adult life.

My younger legal guardian twin sister decided life on the farm was not fun, she was sad her sons never visited, her only daily company was Alzhemier mother then she and her sickly twin sister got into a fist fight over goats, yes goats. Emotions ran high on both sides of the fence...the fence between my mother's property and the sickly twin's home next door.

Sickly twin decide to run legal guardian twin away from Alzhemier mother's home, she did many nasty things to legal guardian twin including going through her personal property stored in the old dairy barn, get on the computer to print off letters and private accounts to use against her.

One twin said "she did this" while the other twin said "she did that". So the legal guardian twin took mother to my uncle's goat farm (yep, those damn goats again) to hide out. But in truth, legal guardian twin headed east to Georgia to her ex-husband, racist con-man, that threatened to lock her in the basement if she looked at other men before she divorced him three years ago.

Yes, this story get even messier.

The best I can figure out is my mother and legal guardian twin left Texas around September 8th after she didn't show up for my niece's wedding September 6th. I was only in email contact with legal guardian twin and she pretended she was on the goat farm with my aunt and uncle goat.

When I started planning a big 75th birthday party for my mother I call my uncle goat and his wife but they refused to tell me where my mother and legal guardian twin sister were they were verbal abusive towards me.

I got on the phone to call my mother's lawyer, the judge that was over her case and our social worker for their help to find and return Alzhemier mother to her home. From everything I could find out the legal guardian twin never paid the lawyer bills, one even filed against her, she hadn't filed out the financial paper work that goes along with being a legal guardian.

Sickly twin has a terrible bowel disease since she was in her early 20s that has her taking lots of pain medication daily, her 20 year old son was killed last year so she has more medicines for anxiety, depression and/or to keep her calm. Both of the twins have emotional problems that would send others into years of therapy but both refuse professional help of any kind.

Little old me, I feel like the twin's private wishbone....pull her a little this way, pull her a little that way to see whose wishes will come true. One weel one twin loves me, the next week the other twin loves me but never at the same time.

Little old me is two years old than the twins, put in charge of keeping them safe and happy by both of my parents since their birth 53 years ago, even promising my daddy on his death bed to watch after mom and the twins. Never ever tell an older child to be responsible for their siblings!! It should be a crime!

Little old me took my job seriously until about a year ago when I realized I can't be responsible for the twin's happiness no matter how many times I tried to help them. They made adult decisions that changed and shaped the courses of their lives and families. Now I've turned over my responsible to them, to their husbands and their now adult children.

So my mother is back in Texas...along with legal guardian twin.

Next up the ruling by the judge on our court date this past Wednesday.

1 comment:

~tina said...

OMG--When will your nightmare end?? and I thought my family my family was the craziest one!