A Surprise to Us!!

It's been a few days since I last wrote....frustration, busyness of life, excuses!!  My sister, Mary and I have been looking forward to our annual "Sisters' Week" at the coast for a while now, since we planned it in March, really.  We were hoping that Esther, younger sister, would join us but alas, she said she still had too much to do for the upcoming wedding of her daughter Sabrina.  We mentioned that it might be good for her if she just chilled before the wedding especially since she sounded so stressed.....but she declined!  Oh well, next year won't come soon enough for her!

Mary picked me up at the airport on Monday morning after my week long trip to JP & Meg's to see the boys.....wonderful time with the grandbabies and on top of that I also got to see Gina & Greg with the children....all of them..   What a treat!  SIX grandkids in one trip!!

So she picked me up, we went home to check on the pool, the yard, the house, and exchange suitcases.  Yes, it was packed for the beach before I left for St. Louis!  Off we went.  Stopped for lunch, and on the way we decided to keep on driving to visit our aunt and uncles in Brownsville.  What a great idea!  Aunt Rosie was delighted to see us.  We spent the night with her and Uncle Emilio.  We visited with Tio Felo and spent most of the evening documenting family history on the Shears/Leal side.  My goodness, skeletons in the closet we have.    We had breakfast early morning with Tia and then picked up some pan de dulce to take over to Tio Cale & Tia Julie's for our second helping of breakfast.

On our way to Brownsville, we called Tia Mary Lou and told her our plan....she was giddy with delight that we would actually want to drive all the way down to visit for a day and knew that they, at the receiving end would love it.  She also mentioned that we needed to make a trip to "Willy-Willy's" for some margaritas.......Willy-Willy turned out to be WannaWanna!!  They were good margaritas, beach side with Cerviche and Fried Shrimp.

We are now at the beach and it has been frustrating in that we cannot get our condo internet to work and so Mary and I have been sitting at WalMart McDonald's downloading CM stuff so we can take it back an work on our digital scrapbooking.  While the downloading is taking place I also decided to write.  Maybe too, because we received a phone call from Tia Mary Lou telling us that she had received permission to visit mom.   BUT, she was told that she would be picked up at her home and taken to mom.  Tia assumed that Michael would take her to Shady Springs but instead took her to Regent Care Rehab center and told Tia that mom had been there for two weeks.  TWO WEEKS and we haven't heard from them to let us know that she had fallen again and fractured some more of her hip.  The last time we heard from Mike and Angie (more Angie) was when I tried to visit mom and I was told that THEY would let me know when and if mom wanted to see me and until then I was not to come over!!!

SO now she's at the rehab center and they (staff) have been told that no one is to visit mom except Mike, Angie and now Tia Mary Lou.   A surprise to us!!

Question:  do I take this to a legal step?  Who would it be helping and who would it  be hurting?  IS this something of an abuse that I would take it to Adult Protective Services?  to a Dispute Resolution Court?  Where do we turn in our rights to see our mom??????????????????

A Nice Visit

       Since mom has been home, I been able to see her twice!  Once with Mary and today with Manuel, Mary, and Katie.  It was a good visit.  She was having breakfast and was playful with all of us.  Michael opened the front door and grabbed his bottle of water and walked out the back, never acknowledging us!!!  But what's new? 

       Manuel was in because his mother-in-law passed away so it was not a planned visit.

       On the other hand, they are all very excited to be with us at Sabrina's wedding next month and will even be staying at the same hotel.....that should be a good time!!

I enjoyed my time today with my brother and sister.....lots of hugs and reassurances of family.  Always good.