What in the hell am I supposed to do? I'm ready to just drop him off at a hotel for a week or at a homeless shelter and tell him now YOU figure it out.

For anyone who reads all of this, I only wish I was just making this up.

I'm 62 and my brother is a 60 YO adolescent. He's been in the hospital for a month after a friend of his and I finally got him to the ER. He had massive infection in both legs and feet, and his kidneys had almost shut down.

It's another separate long story just to tell how he got like that, and part of his problem is his denial and excuses for how this happened.

The hospital has been looking for a skilled nursing facility to take him, but none here will because he's not 62. They did find one in a neighboring city which then backed out and said because of an impending snowstorm, they would not take him because they didn't think they would have enough nursing staff to care for him.

Today the hospital told me he no longer needs IV antibiotics and can take his antibiotics orally, so they're ready to discharge him and I need to find a place to put him right now, today.

I spent the entire day driving around town and on the phone, and there is nothing.

He cannot go back to the house he was living in--some details on that below for anyone who reads that far.

He has no money. He's been approved for ST disability from his job, and it was supposed to show up today but didn't.

Our 81 YO mom doesn't have room for him at her house. She already has our youngest brother still at home (50 YO), his daughter and some friend of hers living with them.

(Anyone see a pattern?)

Our 86 YO dad doesn't want him in his house because my brother has thoroughly pissed him off somehow. And dad's house is ALMOST as bad as my brother's--just doesn't have cats.

I don't want him in my house because he's such a pig and an ***. Besides he still needs a walker, but I have stairs and carpet in my house. I don't think it COULD work. And I'd probably end up killing him.

He has abysmal credit and has run up 14 credit cards and never paid them, so he's disqualified for one low rent apartment complex and likely others--but they're all full anyway.

His friend from work subtly lectured me one day about his "loyal friends" at work, but will one of these "loyal friends" step up and say he can come live with them? I seriously doubt it, if they really know him. The lecturing friend doesn't have room either.

I was ready to take him to a neighboring city homeless shelter but then Dr. said he won't release him to a homeless shelter.

In his rented, trashed, filthy, disgusting, pig sty, hoarder house there is no heat except plug in space heaters, and it's 11 degrees out right now. When we got him to the ER:
- He said he had not eaten in seven days
- No hot water with a gas water heater only and no gas supplied to the house
- No working refrigerator
- No working kitchen stove
- Water/sewer/trash were shut off for non-payment
- Car has body parts falling off and taped on, needs minimum $500 repairs and his insurance was canceled for non-payment
- Has two cats who had been crapping and peeing everywhere because their litter box was a solid brick from not being cleaned
- House full of these collectibles but some getting destroyed or degraded in his filthy living condition
- He has many years history of getting many months behind on his rent with this landlord (he tolerated it because he's a friend of our dad)
- Dirty dishes piled high on kitchen counter and in sink--some with black mold on them
- Toilet bowl was filled with excrement from no running water to flush
- House and everything in it REEKED, including the cats

(The cats have been at my house for a month; we had to have them groomed and bathed because they stank so bad)

It's not alcohol or drugs.

It's what I consider an addiction to comic books, sports collector cards, dinosaur figures/fossil bones/fossil eggs, Transformers toy figures, Marvel and DC comics superhero figures, NFL cheerleader memorabilia and Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders in particular.

Our parents and I have been clearing out his filthy pit of a house. I have power of attorney for his medical decisions and now for his finances too. I've been selling off part of his collection as I have time in order to pay his many unpaid bills, and moving his things to a storage unit so we can end lease on the house. I have no idea what kind of damages he's going to have to pay for what he's done to this place.

I meant to talk to a bankruptcy attorney today but never made it because I spent the entire day looking for some place he could stay for a time.

He has totally screwed himself a dozen ways from Sunday.