ya know when so much keeps going wrong and you're so sick of crying that all you can do is laugh at how terrible everything is?
Yeah, apparently that happens to me at the worst possible moment.
So, quick recap. Over the past month my mom has been diagnosed with a brain tumor and "impending dementia" this is on top of a long standing neurological disorder with parkinson's like symptoms that no one can figure out yet and she's lost her sense of smell requiring me to get very creative with my cooking so she'll eat. My roof has started leaking, my son is fighting anxiety, and I'm PMS'ing like mad.
I was doing pretty good keeping it together, keeping a positive attitude (at least on the surface) and running on 2-3 hours sleep a night. Yesterday I had been asleep for about half an hour when my mom comes in my room while talking on her phone and crying. I sit up, ask what's wrong (wondering internally what else could possibly have happened now), she tells me my SIL has cancer. Ladies, I laughed, I couldn't help it, I wasn't happy about the diagnosis and I feel terrible for her, but I just started laughing.
Thankfully my SIL has a very good prognosis and there's a good chance she won't need chemo even so that's good, but I don't know, I just snapped, there's been so much so fast that all I could do was laugh at the absurdity of it all. My mom was pissed at first but she understood once I explained it, and she knows I'm desperately sleep deprived and since my brother didn't happen to hear me laughing I'm still just a notch or two below being Satan in his eyes.
Submitted December 18, 2016 at 05:49PM by Momma_Sasquatch http://ift.tt/2gPY21s
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