No Coffee with Dad today
by Rosebuddear
Sat Apr 05, 2008 at 03:11:39 PM PDT
Instead, a most extraordinary story from my Mom
- Rosebuddear's diary :: ::
It seems my cousin has Parkinson's..........and drug companies and doctors being what they are, they put her on some drug for Parkinson's that has awful side effects. Mainly the complete loss of impulse control. BIGTIME. One of the things they warn you about this drug is that you might have uncontrollable gambling/sexual/drinking urges.
Well OMG. In my cousin's case it took the form of uncontrollable gambling urges. She gambled away 60000 dollars of her retirement money. And, worse, her daughter, who apparently didn't notice when all this was going on, has now contacted the State of Illinois and made her a Ward of the State. Because they shared title to her house. So the daughter could do that, legally. My cousin has lost her house and is now about to go into a nursing home.
My Mom believes her (the daughter's )husband influenced her to do that. And I'm sure he did. I can't imagine another reason for them to do this. It's not even like they're going to benefit financially.
I know my cousin. And I know her daughter. My cousin is the most levelheaded person I know. There is no WAY that she would gamble away 60000 dollars unless she was SEVERELY on drugs. And her daughter.........well the idea that she would turn on her mother like this is completely outside of everything I know about people. I'm floored.
I'm floored. Just floored. I don't even know what to think. And what do I say to my Mom (75 years old) she of course doesn't think me or my sister would ever do anything like that to her or Dad, but who knew that my cousin's daughter would ever do it either? I know why she's scared.
Good Lord. Bushie America. Where everybody's on drugs with bad side effects, and everybody throws their parents to the wolves. Let's just bring back that ice floe where we float out the old people to sea on a cake of ice. Oh, I guess we can't do that anymore, can we? Global warming, thank you.
Sorry to be so down. I really do have some optimism, just not today haha.
