Thanks you guys! I've been afraid to check my E-Mails, because I finally E-Mailed Mom's attorney, with all the sordid details, and usually her repsonse is so chilly, it just upsets me so. I found out that Sister #2, that showed up for my Birthday, helped Sister #1 to make off with a very valuable painting, She actually drove to Mom's, picked up the painting (worth $25,000.00!) and then DROVE it to Sister #1 in New Mexico, and then on to Oklahoma??!! Not exactly on her way? She had just been fired from her traveling nursing job, of 5 weeks, instead of three months. So much for the plan, that she would be closer, to take care of Mom???!!!

So here are all of these needs, not being met, and everyone knows about them, and all they care about, is a friggin painitng!!!???? I told Mom's attorney, we may all end up in court some day, but I hope not, because it would break my Mother's heart.

They have 'one' other bathroom, that does work, but it is a shower, not a tub, with no grab bar, no wearher stripping, broken hardware, etc. I just can't imagine, as Mother get's worse, how she will bathe? Or even how often, or if she even baths at all, now?

I am resting, resting, resting, taking my car in for repair tomorrow, and am even going to take them up on the rental car, it is so bloomin' hot here, this time of year.

I took the video off of Youtube, suggested by a good friend. Who knows who could end up with it, but still have it in my computer. She also suggested that I wait one month, and then call anonymously, or have a friend call the public health department, so they wouldn't immediately suspect me! Tom would pitch a fit, and I would lose all this love-fest ground, we have made.

They are definately on a city-sewer-system, but my Sisters think (or said) "Tom just needs to call a pumber???" Yea right, they will probably have to get a back-hoe in there, or even condemn that house, then what? It is such a mess. Prayer, prayer, and more prayer.

Thanks Connie. The Car wreck was a definante wake-up-call for me! And yes, better a dumpster than a child, or a person, or even another car! I am trying to count my blessings, it isn't easy though!

Oh Nancy, I am so sorry you continue to be frustrated at every turn. And to have family in effect STEAL a painting of that value is just sickening. Those we love deepest always disappoint and hurt us the most.

You and dear mom remain in my thoughts and prayers.

Hmmmmm.....Love deeply??? I lost that feeling a long, long, time ago. She does not fail to disappoint, however! Thank you for your kind words & PRAYERS!!! I asked Mom's Attorney today "So shall I call, the public health department, or shall you?" No one wants to 'get involved' GRRRRRRRR!!!!!

"Oh, Senator Obama?? I have a video that you just must see, to believe!"

Well, as you all know, a month has come & gone, and come & gone. I spent "The Fourth Of July" there, and left shortly thereafter. Now, I have become soooo crazy involved with the campaign, it has ended up on the back burner, and no one is sicker than usual, accept for the "Shingles" which I do not think you get from bad surroundings. One friend (a silly girl) suggested I call the police, and say I think the awful smell, is a dead body, buried in a wall, that belongs to the Human Scull, in the extra bedroom? Sweet, eh? I still think calling "The Health Department (or having a friend call anonymously, saying they were just walking by said "ADDRESS" and smelled something god-awful, and think it is raw-sewage. That would get them out there, but, I have already threatened to Mom's Attorney to do this, sooooo. It is absolutely OBSURD, that I have to do everything so covert, like some kind of secret-agent, so I don't get in trouble, for having my Mom's best interest at heart? Crazy making!

Well, it is unacceptable, and all this time, and all these years...I've lost count, I thought it was teaching me to accept the unacceptable, if it was anything else, anyone else, but my Mom, I would be better at it, maybe.

I just heard tonight at Church, that one of our Pastor's Wives, is having exploratory surgery, on Monday, so prayers for them, of course. She was the same one that said that I HAD to forgive my Sister, and I said "I Can't" and she said "You can't, or you wont? and I said "I wont, I am not ready, if she was hurting me, it would be totally different, bt she is hurting my Mother, (Possibly Felony Elder Abuse?!?) and preventing me legally, from helping her, in any way. I can not, and will not accept that, not now, maybe later, maybe never, we'll see. After I showed this woman the video of Mother's living conditions, she was so appologetic, and said she felt awful for pressuring me, (she thought I was exagerating, everybody does!) and said she would pray her heart out for my Mom. End of story.

Patience, Patience, Patience. It is amazing-grace, she has made it this far, don't you think?