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Old Nov 17, 2021, 10:46 AM
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Hello everyone. I'm in a difficult place with my mother. She is 67 years old and is addicted to alcohol. She lives alone. For the past year she has had falls where she has gotten hurt and required an ambulance. I have been the one calling all the ambulances, picking her up from the ER in the middle of the night, cleaning up her messes, picking her up off the floor. I also put her into medical detox for a week, that didn't fix it. She refuses to go to counseling. Half the time when I calmly confront her about what happened she denies everything or says she does not remember. I have thought about putting her into assisted living, cause she won't be able to drink there, but I think she'd just walk out and leave. She has done that twice to me when I have taken her to the ER, she walked out and left saying she does not have a problem. I don't know what to do with her. She gets angry with me whenever I try to talk about it with her. And I know I may come off as selfish for saying this, but I have a family with 2 kids that I'm responsible for and constantly getting middle of the night phone calls, cleaning up messes, calling ambulances, etc...wears on me and my family. I told her once that if she calls me I won't come, but I don't have the heart to truly go through with that. I'm very angry at her. I can't get her declared incompetent because she technically is not.
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