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Let us begin with my brother’s story, since he has the worst of it all. The night before court he went to the hospital where they found a blood clot in his head. They wanted to keep him in the hospital but he had to go to court, so he left. They also needed to do a CAT scan but because of a power surge, their machine was down and the next closest one is 2 hours away. He can’t afford to drive that far since gas is $3.00 a gallon and he is unemployed. It would cost him about $50 to get there and back. Not to mention the fact that he doesn’t have any health insurance and he is worried about how he is going to pay for all of this.

After he left the hospital he went to pick up his prescription and he took one of the pain pills before he went to court because he hurt so bad, even though I thought it would be a bad idea for him to be high while he is in the courtroom. I don’t know all of the specifics of the court case but the final order of the court was that he had to complete his LSI (this is some kind of program the DA uses to determine how to charge and possibly make deals with him based on his and his families criminal history) by the 19th of May or he will have to serve the full sentence. The reason the judge was so upset is because Jayson missed his first appointment with LSI and they thought he wasn’t realizing how serious his crime and the sentence were. The problem here is that the next available appointment with LSI is on the 22nd and there is no possible way that I could get him a sooner meeting, even explaining his circumstances.

After Jayson told me what had happened and how upset he was, I was worried about him because he said he would just kill himself if he had to go to jail. Plus, all of the things that are medically wrong with him I tried to come up with some kind of hope for him. The only thing that we could think of was for him to go to the LSI office every morning and wait for there to be an opening or for someone to take pity on him and see him. Hopefully, this plan will work and he will get to see someone before the 19th. If not he will probably be going to jail for at least a few months if not a few years, the time he is facing is 10 years and the judge isn’t happy with him.

Needless to say, I am worried about my brother, I really don’t want to see him go to jail because he is stupid and forgot his appointment. He forgets these things all of the time. I don’t think that there is anything else that I can do to help him though. I also in my mind think that jail for a few months might shock him into straightening up. On the other hand sending him to jail for 10 years would only make him worse in the end.

(Update: My brother went to the hospital Saturday night and had a CAT scan done and they found nothing wrong. What he has is stress migraines, they gave him medicine for it, and now the pain is better.)

To tell you about what happened to my mother yesterday I must explain the story, I will try to do it in as few words as possible. I have told the story of how my mother became the guardian of a woman named Bonnie, she is kind of crazy and old, she is also the girlfriend to my uncle Chuck. My mother says that Chuck was abusing Bonnie and so she filed for a restraining order against him for Bonnie, but when they went to court two weeks later Bonnie said she wanted to be with Chuck. So, the court took Bonnie out of my mom’s care and gave Bonnie to Chuck.

A couple of weeks passed and Chuck filed to evict mom from Bonnie’s parents’ house. My mom thought that the judge would not grant the order but he did. However, my mom had previously had Bonnie sign over the house, car and all other possession that were in her parents’. The estate would be my mother’s as soon as the papers were final. That could be 60 days from now but when that happens, my mother will own everything completely and there is nothing they can do about it. Someone might suggest that Bonnie wasn’t sane when she signed everything over to my mother but my uncle Chuck isn’t that smart I don’t think.

So, my mother ultimately has to move out by Sunday at midnight. She has a place to go she says, but I don’t know who she is staying with. She says the lawyer is going to take the papers to the judge Monday morning and she should be able to move back in to the house in just a couple of weeks. I am not really worried too much about my mother, what I am worried about is her calling my grandmother and begging for money. My mother hasn’t had a job for over 5 years now.

My mom says that she is mentally unable to work. I know that she is crazy for sure but not so much that she can’t get a job. She is on disability anyway and gets a check every month from the government. It’s not going to be enough for her without getting all the money from Bonnie’s weekly check from the estate, Chuck gets that now. My grand mother is supported by a monthly check as well and can barley pay for the things she needs. I would have to put my foot down if I found out my mother was taking money from her again.

My father also had court yesterday. I don’t know the details because I am not writing to him anymore but I did call the jail because I wanted to know if he was being released or not. The receptionist said that his bond had been raised to $25,000 and he has a new court date on May 30th. I am guessing that things did not go well and that he will have to wait for another day to have his case heard. Last time he waited 9 months, so I don’t have to worry too much about him getting out and calling me anytime soon.

My dad is better off in a place where they control his every move. He needs someone telling him what to do all of the time or he just gets drunks and ends up in jail anyway. I had sent him a letter explaining why I can’t deal with him anymore about a month ago. I may have written about it but I don’t remember. I just finally gave up on him. I realized that he doesn’t want to change and I don’t want someone like him in my life. So, I had to say good-bye to him. He wrote a letter back to me but it was all full of bible scriptures and he was talking about being the Son of God again, so I just couldn’t think anymore about it. I don’t think I will write to him or even read any more letters from him, it’s just not worth my time. I already wasted so much time, energy and money trying to have a relationship with my father that just wasn’t worth any of it.

Now that it is Sunday, I am a little more relaxed then I was on Friday. Friday was a very bad day for me. Some other things happened that day too that added to my stress but these are the worst things. I had my whole family dealing with jail or eviction and it looks like the other side one in all 3 cases. On top of that, I have my own medical problems to deal with and this weekend I have been very sick because of the stress. I tried keeping busy on Saturday but it only made me feel worse. I think I am going to spend the rest of today in bed or at least doing something relaxing. On Monday I have to start worrying about how my brother is going to get into the LSI office before his time is up.