Thanks, guys.

Ug...I commented on his post on FB about the amputation that he's in my prayers, and he commented that he hopes I come visit soon...the man has not called me in 6 months and has no idea the financial meltdown I've been through because I lost my job. Where am I going to stay when I go visit him? And it's not like I can just easily drive a 10 hour round trip to go visit him. And what am I supposed to do with my dogs while I take this trip to visit him?

This is typical him. He has no clue what other people are dealing with and thinks things are just as simple as can be. When my grandparents were alive, he regularly would run up tens of thousands of dollars in credit card debt and my grandparents would just pay it off for him. When they passed and he got an inheritance, he bought a huge three bedroom condo (why does he need three bedrooms?) and, in addition to his SUV that has a carrier for his motorized wheelchair on the back of it, spent a shitload of money on a Chrysler convertible. Basically blew his entire inheritance. So now that he's as ill as he is, my dad is doing all the heavy lifting cleaning and selling his condo (which was god awful filthy, he's a hoarder and had multiple cats that pooped and vomited all over the condo and he would never clean it up...another reason I did not want to visit, because his place was just too filthy for me to be in) and my dad sold his cars for him so that he would have money to move into the assisted living facility. He has been taken care of his entire life and has no clue what real adversity is. Someone has always bailed him out. And I'm all for family helping each other out. My mother has been a god send to me in my difficult time right now, but there's a difference between needing help through a difficult time and ALWAYS being taken care of, with no consequences.

I am sorry that he has to have this amputation but I am also just super pissed that he expects all this attention from me when I've been dealing with serious mental illness for 5 years now and he has done basically nothing and doesn't care at all how I'm doing.

Okay...just had to get that out.

I'll try and do the card thing. Honestly I'm so strapped right now and greeting cards can cost as much as like $5, which I can hardly spare.

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