Shock: Alzheimer's and Offensive Family Friends

I finally got it together to call back my dad's best friend (who contacted me to tell me that my dad isn't doing so hot) and her answering machine was so freakin offensive. It said something like "We're out at the movies seeing Brokeback Mountain II staring Hillary Clinton and Angelina Jolie."
I almost couldn't leave a message. I didn't say anything on her machine about the message, but I think that I should when she calls.

Anyway, I'm in such shock from everything that's going on that I'm having a hard time getting anything done. I still am struggling to work, and now I sort of have lost my focus also on healing. I feel like I have to just gear up for the trip and am just on survival mode. I notice that I'm not writing as much on the blog, and I think the above is a big part of that. My therapist says that I need to not assume that people don't want to hear about this stuff, to say to my friends that I'll lean on you as much as I need but you can tell me when its getting to be too much so that I leave that decision in your hands, and that I have to not completely close down. I somehow have to keep processing things and talking about them, even if it is online on the blog.