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Originally posted by Roderick Usher
I have a these neighbors in my apartment building, let's call them C and P, who are really chapping my ass.
C is a Vietnam Vet with two types of cancer and ten kinds of crazy. His wife, P has frontal lobe dementia - it's similar to Alzheimer's but with the added plus of making her walk like Karloff's Mummy and causing incontinence.
I'm always around (I work at home) so I help them carry groceries up the stairs and such, no big. But lately their health has turned south and I'm their go-to guy for first aid. P recently fell down and broke her foot, so I'm always getting the call to help her up and down the stairs.
She weighs at least 180 and has no mobility at all, so I'm literally hauling her around...and I can smell her diaper.
I like to be the good guy, and C keeps me in good supply of great weed (from his Hell's Angels buddies) but I'm tired of it already.
They simply have no one else and are flat broke, so they can't afford hospice care. It's tough enough being a stay-at-home dad with a full-time writing job, but this added burden is breaking me down.
I kind of wish that thier diseases would just do them in.
Now...am I terrible for thinking that?
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unfortunately..your good deed has turned you into some kind of matyr for this couple.
These ppl are lonely and have probably
turned to you as some kind of company
as your young..etc.
I see this couple however taking advantage of this situation.
The best thing for you to do now ..is put yourself and your own life above all others...including them.
The next time she calls...don't go...
just watch her closely..i bet after a few minutes..she will get up by herself and walk.
Concentrate on your writing/child/yourself..
Let them know your there IF and only IF its an emergency..other than that..
tell them ..this love affair is over. ..or you may find that you'll want to move apartments...or worst of all..show some
kind of open hostility towards them, :D