Fuck you Irene.

[seiberwing]

My grandmother (old, mobility/hearing issues, mild memory problems, and also an all around personality disordered hard to deal with jerkface) was in Fleischman's in the Catskills, where there was a lot of flooding. Her motel is "gone", as she put it (EDIT: no seriously this thing is floating down main street it is not even attached to the ground anymore), and she was evacuated to somewhere arts and cultural. As of my mom's last text "Gran evac'd to music conservatory nr ski resort so much higher ground. She is laying down talking to a friend, okay for now". However, the roads are flooded so we have no idea when or how she's going to get out.

My parents' current plan to throw my autistic brother in the trunkbackseat and drive up there (15 hours from Knoxville, TN) as soon as the roads are clear, since renting a car after flying into LaGuardia is going to be next to impossible. I'm on standby to catch a plane to LGA, if needed, and take care of my brother at her apartment while my parents take care of Grandma. We're not worried about her safety, more the mechanics of getting her back to her apartment in Queens. If she'd just stayed in the city this summer like we all told her to this would not have happened.

If anyone has any ideas, resources, cars, or psychic powers that might help us out, it would be deeply appreciated.

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[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

Getting her out of the Catskills turned out to be the easy part, actually. It's made her dementia worse and she's freaking out and calling my parents every time she's alone or has the slightest cough or anything she can do to get attention.

We're all pretty sure that she'll have to go live near my parents at an assisted living facility pretty soon. Whether she wants to or not.

[biting-moopie.livejournal.com]

Oh man. That's awful. I'm really sorry.

That's so rough. It's the right decision to make but it doesn't make it any easier.


*sends extra hugs for you and also cuddles from my cat and also some pie*

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

It doesn't help that she's a selfish horrid person on top of it. Not once did my parents get a thank you, and she was insisting that they drop everything and come back to NY because she had a cold and "I never asked for anything and nobody ever did anything for me".

Don't be mistaken. We don't actually like her. But she's family and my dad has a guilt complex.

[biting-moopie.livejournal.com]

Oh God, fucked family dynamics. You've got nothing but sympathy from me. The emotional manipulation you describe is so very familiar.

You and your parents are nice people, and you sound like you the patience of a thousand saints. <333