Thursday, April 19, 2012

Up to my eyeballs

I'm not quite sure what's going on but I feel like my family has had the short end of the shit stick this month!

My dad is having hallucinations that my mom is sleeping around with the whole town. He's thinking up wild stories and asking my brother to corroborate them. Is my dad starting dementia? Cuz, let me tell you... my mom is not sleeping with the whole town.

My mom hasn't been regulating her diabetes and has had several teeth removed because they are rotting out at the gums. She still continues to leave her diabetes unregulated and not seek care with a different doctor.

My 38 year old sister-in-law has been diagnosed with breast cancer. WTH?

And my best friend is suffering through agoraphobia. She's starting to have anxiety about going to places where she might panic... Anxiety about potential anxiety. Poor girl.

That leaves me sitting over here talking to people on the phone and trying to help them figure things out. My own anxiety is in overdrive but I really need to keep it under control for the benefit of myself, my husband, my job and my family. Worrying has no place in any of this and it really only makes things worse. I can type that, I can think I believe it but then I reach my hand out to take a bite of food and I notice my fingers trembling uncontrollably. Deep breaths...