Unbelievable: My Aunt Blames Me!

I called my aunt today, at my sister's request, to arrange to pick up my grandmother's car so that sis can drive it while she's in town and I can pick her up at the airport. So, my aunt goes off on me for not calling her and somehow blaming me that things went bad when I took Mom to Grandma's. I called my cousin (my aunt's son) to get advice on how to smooth things over and he warned me that my aunt blames me for my father not putting my mom on medication for Alzheimer's. OY! Like it isn't bad as it is, she has to make this more complicated. Whatever. I'm done with her. Luckily, my cousin seems okay about maintaining contact with me even if things are bad between me and his mom.

And, to make me feel even worse, my cousin told me that my grandmother is worse than when I saw her last. She's often in a paranoid psycosis, he claims. And my aunt seems to be dragging her feet on getting services to Grandma and some of the staff at her facility aren't so fabulous. So, isn't that just wonderful. He said he is trying to get Grandma some hospice care, thankfully. It just makes me so sad that she is suffering so much.