I'm getting on a plane to go to PA today to stay with my mom and dad for a while...a long while. My mom is very sick .

My brother and his wife are going to drive me insane ! A little background info here...a few years back, when I still lived in PA, my sil went a little bit insane on me about a ten year old washing machine! It is way too long to write about but I'll tell ya that my entire family (except my brother, of course) thought she had lost her mind . We've known her for close to 20 years.

After that, things were not the same. I've hardly spoken to my brother since. When I went to PA about a month or so ago, we all started talking to each other again. Ya gotta try to put things aside when someone in the family is ill, right? My sil "appeared" to be acting normally the entire time I was there (3 weeks).

My brother has never mentioned a thing to me about my MS diagnosis last year. Not a phone call or a note or anything. Par for the course from him, although as kids we were very close (he's only 2 years younger than me). While I was in PA he said to me "you need to move back to PA, don't you know heat is bad for people with MS?!?". If he had ever asked me anything about MY illness he would know that heat does not bother me. I believe he just wants me back there full time to care for my parents . My sister thinks that is his motive too.

My sil is starting to act a bit "off" again. She acted all helpful and sympathetic to the point of it seeming really phony to me. Now she doesn't answer her cell, my brother answers it or it goes to voice mail. She hasn't gone to see my mom for a while. When I talk to my brother she's in the background talking non-stop instead of just getting on the phone herself. I know that it's better that she isn't around. She was feeding the rest of us misinformation about my mom's condition when my mom was hospitalized. Any time she was alone with my mom she would always have a slew of info from my mom's doctors after the visit . It took us a while to realize this. I made many phone calls to my mom's doctors and nurses to straighten things out.

I realize that she probably has some type (maybe bi-polar) of mental illness but my brother will not even consider that this could be what's wrong with her (we discussed it back when the "washing machine" incident occurred). My sis thinks she's just a manipulative, b*&ch.

I am not looking forward to walking into this mess. My brother is picking me up at the airport tonight. I'm almost sure she won't be with him. They have a 9 year old son, so hopefully she will be home with him. I also worry about my nephew living in this situation .

Like we don't have enough problems as it is right now, ARGH!!!! *sigh*

Well, I just wanted to get that out !! Thanks for listening to me rant and rave. Wish me luck! I feel a storm brewing here, I think I might just explode on their ****'s .

This might be my last post for a while. I'll miss all of ya!!