I have a mom and she is a little on the crazy side, in my
opinion. I don’t really know how to explain or even understand her. I do feel
if I try to express it on here, It may be freeing for me. My mom is going to be
50 this year and the best word I can use to describe her is “OLD CRAZY PARTY
LADY”. My mom has been married 4 times. My dad she divorced when I was a baby
and husband number two and three use to beat her all the time. Husband 2 was 10
years older than her, He was a butcher and worked at a place called Kroger.
Husband 3 is now homosexual and he was 10 years younger than her. He was in a
family plumbing business. I don’t remember too much of my childhood, I guess
that is a good thing. I do remember that when my mom was between husbands we
always lived with my grandma. I remember sleeping with my Grandma and always
hearing she and my mom fight. My grandma use to tell my mom she had to go
somewhere else if she was going to stumble in drunk at 3 am every night that it
wasn’t good to wake everyone else up and that the kids didn’t need to see her
like that. I do remember her always drinking and partying, when we didn’t live
with my grandma, she was never home. Things never really changed, I guess they
went from drinking to pills. After I turned 18 I moved back in with her. She
ended up going “crazy” and drew disability for bi-polar. After she got on Medicaid
her Dr.’s would give her all kinds of anxiety medicine and she would take them
not like they were prescribed. She would take a month’s worth of pills in a
week and be really “high” then for the rest of the month she would be okay. She
did that last time she came to Springfield to see us, it was over a year ago. I
hope for her own sake one day she grows up, but right now the 500 miles between
us is just right.
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