Jho's Place

Mom's Messed Up (birthday) part 1

Everytime I visit my parents, or if my parents are involved with something, there is always a good story to share with everyone. Recently, my mom turned 54. I have been describing this blessed event as, "a glorious, amusing, close to melt down mess." For those who know me, you will understand how I have turned out the way that I am, for those who don't, you may be just a little scared and hopefully amused all at the same time.

My mom called me at 3:30 on Friday, Oct. 21st, asking me if I could pick my brother up from the hospital. Now you may be concerned about WHY my brother was in the hospital. He has Bi-Polar and he was in for a med change, or more specifically to get him off Seraquil (sp?). This is nothing new. My brother has been in and out of hospitals since he was 16 and even spent a stint in the annoys State Hospital which is where they send the craziest of the crazies though that was a mistake since he was not all that bad. When I say not all that bad, I mean it in a working with EBD kids kind of way. When you first walk in you are like, "I need to get the hell out of here. These kids are out of conrtol and gonna kill me!," and then you stay and help out in class for a week and realize you actually showed up on a good day. Well Paul was having a good day though hyped up day. Paul left me two messages asking me to pick him up that I noticed on my way to the gym for my swim that happened to be before my mom had called me. So I guessed I had enough time to get the swim in and head over to Coon Rapids and get to Mercy Hospital by 6pm which is when his pass started. When I was walking back from the gym I noticed he had left another two messages this time saying that since he had not heard back from me that he would be having Joy and Tom pick him up. This made much more sense since Joy and Tom basically lived near the border of Coon Rapids, but I have always been the good son who always steps up to the plate so I was the first called. I was positioned to play "Jon" for the rest of the evening.

posted by makeisweet @ 10:04 AM