Is this year over yet?

                   I hope everyone had a great holiday weekend.
                Christmas Day was lousy for me.  My brother
                and his 16 year old daughter came down and
                spent a few hours at mom's house.

                 I love my brother.  And he is my brother so
                 I feel I have the right to call him names if I
                 choose to do so.  And I do.  I never really
                 let myself believe it before but now I do.
                 My brother is the horses rear-end.  And my
                  mom agrees.  R made mom so mad.  Mom
                  didn't hear something he said and she said
                  something about old age and hearing loss
                  and my brother starts making all kinds of
                  jokes about it.  No one said anything but he
                  really p.o.'d me and mom.

                 
These smiling flowers are here to help put
me in a better mood.  So far they aren't
helping. 

The place where my aunt is now living called
                   me today.  My aunt is ok, but the doctor feels
                   that we should consider moving her to a place
                   that specializes in alzheimer's patients.  What?
                   My aunt has dementia sure but I didn't think
                   she was that bad off.

                    According to the nurses my aunt likes to roam
                    at night.  During the day she is ok, but at night
                     instead of sleeping she likes to roam around.

                     Now what to do?  I will have to go tomorrow
                     for a face-to-face with the doctor.  I just
                     don't know if she is that bad or they just
                     don't want to be responsible if she gets
                     out of the building.

                      I don't know the first thing about any of
                      the places they told me about.  Have no
                       idea on how to check them out.  I worry
                      that I will pick one of the bad ones, or
                      that my aunt will go down hill even faster
                      if we move her.  But then if we don't move
                      her and she mananges to walk out of the
                      place we have her in.............

I want to thank those of you that helped 
Sylvia with the technical issues she was
having.  It is great how people just pitched
in.  I don't know if any of you had been to
her place before but it didn't matter.  Just
                     mention a problem and you guys are there.
                     Thank you so much.