It's Getting to be Too Much
By IvySaysHi
@IvySaysHi (4603)
United States
August 6, 2017 2:34pm CST
I have been gone for a long time and it isn't because I didn't want to be here. I just have so much going on with life right now and unless I get a chance to let this all out I think I am going to explode. I don't want to bother my friends because I have talked to them about some of the things already and I know that they will get annoyed with me and some of them have their own problems so the last thing I should do is bug them with mine.
I am in the last home stretch of my dental assisting program and I have to maintain my good testing with hard core studying. It gets hard to do that when I have to deal with a 3 year old who has recently decided that not listening and interrupting me at every opportunity while getting in trouble is so much fun. My in laws end up getting fed up with my son misbehaving a lot quicker now so I don't even bother with asking them to watch him. My husband will try to distract him with TV or something while he plays games but my son tends to bore easily with TV and ends up just getting in trouble then complaining to come to me. I wish so much that my mom lived in the same state because she loves getting to see him and watch him any chance she gets. My final is tomorrow and the last thing we will be going over is radiography which I was told is going to take much more effort than everything else we have gone over and if things keep going this way I am going to be nothing but a ticking time bomb of stress.
On top of that my grandmother has decided that she will come to me for all her problems even though I am 3 states away! The home health aide she was supposed to be receiving never got back to her or to me so they were basically just a no show. She was just complaining to me because she some how uninstalled facebook from her phone and wanted me to find it for her. I tried explaining to her that I can't do anything when I am hundreds of miles away. She seemed to think I was just a few miles away for some reason and told me to help her with it when I came over. We won't be going to Philadelphia until October. None of my uncles want to get her the help she needs and my dad is in prison and chose to back his insane ex girlfriend in a conflict she had with my grandmother so my grandma isn't wanting anything to do with my dad right now. It should be known she wouldn't be in this predicament if she hadn't pushed away all the good men she had with her manipulations and cheating. Regardless, she raised me and gave me a good child hood. She didn't start getting crazy and out of control until after my dad went to prison and I love her anyway and wish I could help but I can't do anything for her now. Now that none of my uncles need her to give them a roof over their heads, food, internet, and any other luxuries they asked for they aren't helping her and they are in the same state as her which is sad and messed up.
I swear between her, my school work and trying to prepare for a job hunt, and my son being incredibly unbearable I just want to scream and cry and break things. Life is getting really hard and I know I just have to suck it up and push on and I will but I just really needed to let it out.
When was there a time that had you feeling insane? What do you think about the fact that my uncles aren't helping their own mother who helped them and let them mooch off of her for free for years?
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@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
6 Aug 17
I´m so sorry! You can rant here all you wish. Sometimes that helps a lot although we cannot do more than listen to you.

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@IvySaysHi (4603)
• United States
6 Aug 17
it helps a lot more than people realize
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@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
6 Aug 17
@IvySaysHi It was a great help for me when I was in chemotherapy.
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@IvySaysHi (4603)
• United States
6 Aug 17
@marguicha Oh that must have been tough but yeah having a great support system durnig those times really helps doesn't it? Are you ok now?
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@Courtlynn (67089)
• United States
6 Aug 17
First things first - If they were real friends, they wouldn't get annoyed by your problems. And they'd help you out even if they had their own problems to worry about.
Don't be afraid to cry and scream. Let it out. You'll feel better once you do.
They should be helping her. Even if she didn't let them stay there and everything, that's their mom.
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@IvySaysHi (4603)
• United States
6 Aug 17
I just feel like if they have heard one piece of what im going through before then they will get annoyed with me saying it again. One of them just had family die in a nasty car accident. She is the main one I don't want to bother right now.
I had a couple tears fall earlier but after my son has decided to be a well behaved kid and let me cool off I am not feeling the urge to cry right now.
And yeah I wholeheartedly agree that they should. My grandma has done so pretty bad manipulative stuff to me once she went nutty but I still love her and owe her at least as much as to help her find the help s he needs.
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@GardenGerty (169448)
• United States
6 Aug 17
Rant all you like.We listen, and we care. What your uncles are doing now is neglect, and what they did when they mooched off of her is called exploitation. My nieces hardly come help their mom, my sister. Will you grandmother go anywhere like a Senior Center, so she can have interactions with people her age? Sometimes they can help with technology. How old is your grandmother? Would a call to the department of children and families get her any help? Maybe they could make that home health situation better. Your three year old is seeking attention, as someone else said. Can you squeeze any childcare or preschool out of your budget, just for the rest of your schooling? You are going to school not just for yourself but to better your life for all of you.He needs time with his age group in a structured situation.I seldom tell moms to put their kids in preschool, but this would be good for all of you.
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@IvySaysHi (4603)
• United States
6 Aug 17
I would love to put him in preschool but he is being difficult with potty training which they won't let him in without it. I think today he realized how close the edge I am because he has been listening well picking up his toys and letting me try to get some things done. We went on a walk on the hilly roads today too so hopefully that got him kinda tuckered out.
I could try to call some where for her but because I am not there she wouldnt know what they are saying because for some reason these places never seem to have enough bilingual people. My mom who worked in home health aide told me tomorrow she would make a call to the place where she worked to help my grandma out, this is my dad's mom not hers, which I am so grateful for so I have been able to calm down a bit today just from this.
I get afraid of putting my son in day care because of all the horror stories I see about them. Though plenty of places at our community center and an elementary school here have play groups it is just that a parent has to be there with him. I may just sign him up for those and then once i have a job i'll see if my mother in law would be more willing to take him when my husband cant if I pay her.




