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我已经发表了很多次故事,但无论如何都回顾了:当她变得非常健忘时,我从印度那里得到了妈妈……没有人来监督她的护理,这是一场噩梦,可以从这里管理她的助手等。我的兄弟(MB)在另一个国家生活。他说,他可能会在两年内搬回印度并照顾妈妈。所有这些都是在2018年。他没有退缩。


Now DB says since mom is ok with me here in America, let her be. I've told him many times I need a mental break, how her insurance is so expensive ( Mom won't get medicare/medicaid yet). But it's "all water off the duck's back" with DB. After a lot of pleading, he finally sent some money towards her insurance.


他今天打电话给妈妈过生日(他以前的电话是6个月前),我无法控制对他的愤怒。我的心开始比赛,头部受伤,因为我无法保持对话“轻巧轻巧”。我要他告诉我他是否要接待妈妈。但是他不会。所以我说了一个快速的你好,然后将电话交给妈妈,然后进行了目标跑步。


the thing is, his son has moved here for graduate studies but the nephew has not called us nor did DB inform me of his flight details. (We knew he got admission here but was stuck back in his country due to covid). I thought DB might have at least told me he was arriving this month,


我坚持看到B&W中的东西... DB必须接管妈妈...我不会再有任何方法,因为我希望他和SIL看到她需要多少帮助以及它使我们付出了多大的代价。他发送的金额基本上是花生


with all this going on in my mind, how should I handle the next phone call even if it's 6 months away? Even if nephew does call, I worry I might take out my general anger on him. Is there a way to be friendly with DB despite the BIG ELEPHANT in the room?

厌倦,he is never going to take your mom. He has made that clear by words and action.

一世don't know that I would even talk to him. My brother threatened our dad and my dad was scared. So the last time I talked to my brother was when he was telling me what he did and said, who threatens a feeble old man. I haven't even tried contacting him about our dads death, one year ago this month. He has made his stance perfectly clear and I can not be civil to someone that would do what he did.

You have to make the decision if he is worth it. Does he enrich your life in any way or is he just a thorn in your side?

我认为将其拿出来,会让您感觉好些。他不再控制你的兄弟。

我知道她的费用正在杀死你们,您可以在印度出售她的财产并将收益用于她的照顾吗?这会更好,然后看到你的兄弟得到一半。

Great big warm hug!
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bundleofjoy 2021年12月18日
hugs!!!

terrible brother.
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厌倦,

一世have no solution for you, but I want you to know I hear you. It is hard.

一世am like your brother. In my family, all are Canadian, so all are eligible for government benefits. Dad lives with my brother. I will never provide hands on care for my Dad.

why not? Dad has been abusive to me my entire life, because he decided when I was a toddler that I was defective.

一世n your case, you did what you thought was best for Mum, providing care in your home in the US, instead of leaving her in India with no oversight. Sadly it is not your brother's job to pick up the slack, just as it was not your job to move her in the first place.

一世know you feel you had no other options at the time.

我听到你的愤怒。

你和你的兄弟可以h呢ave a conversation, perhaps with a mediator, to talk about how to move forward with Mum's care? Not you telling him what he has to do, but explaining in detail what Mum needs and asking for him to help. Keep in mind he is not obligated to help.
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wearynow 2021年12月18日
tothill, I am so sorry your dad chose to view you so negatively, what a thing to deal with....Thank you for giving me your thoughts....maybe some day DB and I will meet in Switzerland (neutral country..heheh) when the bitterness fades....
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the elephant in the room has nothing to do with nephew, so leave that out of the situation.

告诉兄弟和西尔,您无法独自负担妈妈的照顾。您可能会告诉他们,您有一张XX日期购买的票,将她发送给他们6个MOS。每个人都会做1/2年。- 扔在那里看什么。
maybe send them an itemized statement of your expenses to care for mom with a note of how these could be split so that each of you is responsible for 1/2. Be sure to add in to that statement the cost of hiring enough help for yourself.
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您的兄弟正在使用延迟战术。他不想照顾母亲。亲戚如何避免拿着“热马铃薯”是很普遍的。他们都将所有责任倾倒给已经被困的人。您有权获得一些缓解,否则您将朝着神经崩溃的态度迈进。
Under these circumstances, you have to act as if you have no brother. Make all decisions about your mother alone. Use your brain, not your heart for making those decisions. You are smart, you will find the right path. Get some assistance from elderly-related social agencies, Accept that you're alone in this endeavor.
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santalynn Dec 21, 2021
Yes, and give up trying to get through to brother with either kid gloves or complaining; he has left you on your own with mom so you don't owe him anything, even talking on the phone. Live 'as if' you 'had' a brother; you do have a sibling but not a brother in the way of a helping/supportive family member.
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一种dvice from someone who has been there…

You are hurt because your brother is not meeting your expectations of who you wish (and thought) he was.

just because you are blood-related to your brother, if he is not treating you or your mother well, you have zero more than nostalgic memories. Enjoy those memories… love them for what they are and move on.

Your mother’s needs will grow. He will probably vanish even more over time. This will be maddening if you let it be.

You are getting nothing from him so shift your expectations, expect nothing and you won’t continuously be hurt. He isn’t giving you any false promises or expectations. Don’t expect anything from your nephew— If your nephew wanted a relationship, wouldn’t he contact you himself?

stop “giving” anything to your brother and his son. By doing otherwise, you will only hurt yourself.

Look to your kind friends and other family members. You are probably surrounded by love and support. Realize that this is the next chapter of “family.”
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一世think there are so many of us in similar situations. My mom is in assisted lliving and I visit pretty regularly. Sometimes she says mean and hurtful things so I will stay away for a bit, then when I do go back she's as sweet as pie.

我的一个兄弟和邪恶的西尔(Sil)拜访了妈妈一年两次。但是,当我妈妈的兄弟过去时,他们是向全家人展示他们对我妈妈的好处并带她参加葬礼的人。正如我的另一个兄弟所描述的那样,他们擅长“狗和小马”表演。无论如何,我不在乎再一次与我的兄弟和邪恶的西尔交谈。实际上,当妈妈经过并在庄园定居之后,我是我家庭中最重要的人。

我真的感觉你。突出记得照顾啊f yourself. And, have a wonderful Christmas!

哦,您不必接电话!
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你不是一个人。我一直在照顾我的94岁母亲,永远患有痴呆症。兄弟什么也没做。也不会打电话。她患有痴呆症,他对不得不一遍又一遍地回答相同的问题感到恼火。除非我打电话或告诉他去看。.&我不要在这里超过一个小时的人。我不娱乐。您会认为常识。我什么都不期望,所以我不会失望。拥抱
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You need to sit down and calmly write out moms schedule, moms expenses and the changes that your family have had to bare for her to live with you. Present these things to your brother. You can email the list to him and then make a face time call and ask him to pull up the list so that you can discuss things. Remind him that you are not an only child and will not continue to take on all of the responsibility as if you were. Ask him if he has any suggestions to remedy the situation so that it is fair and agreeable to both siblings. If he doesn't have any suggestions, let him know that you do and then present him with your idea of splitting the year half at your house then half the year at his. Let him know that you have already done your half and that he needs to make arrangements for her travel and begin the next six months with him.

警告词。...如果您完全阅读了此主题,我相信您已经注意到大多数护理人员是女性。那是因为兄弟俩不想处理它,姐妹们通常必须承担责任。

我的兄弟是一名弗里金(Friggin)的护士,他仍然什么都不做,很少打电话给妈妈。

Call your brother with facts and solutions and an air of sternness. Because if you come at him with out of control emotion, he will shut it down and not hear you.

Good Luck!
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santalynn Dec 21, 2021
bingo, and SO glad to read this from a man, kudos!
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Let me know on that last one. My situation is much the same--just not as bad. My brother acts like helping with our mom is "optional." My sister and I give him specific tasks. (Like power-washing the house). We end up giving up after months of waiting and doing it ourselves. I work 6 days a week, travel 6 hours round trip to my mom's Sundays. I really didn't want to go this Sunday...so much of my job work to do,,,But I went. Because that's what I have to do.
who shows up? With a stack of Christmas gifts for my mom? You got it. My brother. "Passing through." If he'd bothered to let me know, I could have stayed home. I could barely be civil.
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santalynn Dec 21, 2021
that's almost laughable, isn't it? As if showing up with stacks of presents balances out the 'caring'. Too many in our culture still seem to think caretaking is the job of the females, the 'nurturers.' For brother to blow off the 'guy jobs' is ridiculous, and he knows he can shirk and you'll take up the slack. For fun, and to make a point, I'd be tempted to send him a bill for the cost of power washing the house! Not that he'd pay, but to show him time and effort has Value. As does your caretaking. If brother can't show up in a real way, tell him he needs to provide some financial support instead (kind of what the stack of Christmas gifts represents.) Let that be his 'contribution' to elder care so you can hire help to save your sanity/health.
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硬新闻是,有时候没有什么变化matter how many times you try to get other family members to help with their own parent. It won't matter how you express your need for more help-whether it be a letter, a phone call, a face to face conversation. It won't matter if you express your needs angrily or in a pleading way. Many of us have learned this the hard way and have finally accepted the fact that we are alone in the caregiving of our loved one.
Figure out what is going to work best for you - what you can live with - what won't bring on guilt. And this doesn't mean it will be easy. What you decide to do for yourself and your mother may be the hardest thing you ever do. Caregiving is a selfless act but I believe we are called to serve others and there are blessings in our efforts to do our best for a loved one.

一世moved my mother in with me a year and a half ago during the pandemic. I was told she had given up on life and I didn't want her to die alone in the facility without ever seeing us or her grandchildren again.
一世thought I would get more help from my sister but she has made it abundantly clear that she is has a life and not much time for mom. We finally came to an arrangement for mom to go to her house every other weekend from Friday night to Sunday night. At one point, I told my sister I needed more help. Her response was to put her back in the facility I had taken her out of. I never expected my sister to do as much as I was doing. I just hoped that she would offer what she could - even if it was just to pick mom up earlier on Fridays - or take her to a doctor's appointment every now and then.

the straw that finally broke the camel's back for me was at Thanksgiving. She was going to take mom for a few hours on Thanksgiving Day. I hoped that she might take her for a few more days so I could get away to a family cabin with my family. Her response was that she couldn't because she had a houseful of people to entertain, a party to go to on the weekend and that she was already missing her granddaughter's dance recital because it fell on her weekend.
一种ll of this may have been true but it was the way she came across - as if her life is much more imporant than mine and the social activities that are a part of her life are more important than helping with mom.

so now mom has declined to a point doctors have said it would be too hard on her to travel back and forth between homes. My sister has to come here to see her.

我与姐姐的关系受到了如此损害,妈妈走了后,我无法想象与她互动。一切都很难过。
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