Be Kind

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Uncle Dave…

Was always there when that mother of mine would bottom out…he took charge…made things happen…found the help she needed…

Her first big episode June of 1985…wedding day…excited me’s wedding day…ended up being a month long hospitalization…

Four more hospital stays…treatments…would follow over the course of the next fifteen years…the last two going as far as the Mayo Clinic for answers…

But there weren’t any…not really…lots of therapy…lots of meds…she’d bounce back…but then the cycle would start again…

And daughter me cared…supported…had compassion for the woman who suffered the anxiety…the instability…but had to draw the line when dealing with the alter ego…

Jealousy…hate…spiteful…cruel manipulative games…

Like the promised day out with that daughter of mine…four years old at the time…was going to pick her up at the sitter’s…take her to lunch…take her shopping…built it up…a little girl’s day with Grandma…

But Grandma didn’t show up…blew it off…no explanation…

And so it is…in life…there is no excuse for being cruel…intentional…vindictive…hurtful…none…none at all…

Mic drop…
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And this husband of mine…agrees…