As those of us of a certain age know, dealing with parents is a tricky issue.  They are still our parents even if we are parents and/or grandparents ourselves.  That being said, does every one have parents that are as stubborn as my mother?  "She doesn't want to be a bother..."

My mother has what is called Meniere's Disease.  I have a read a lot of different things about it but basically other than being an inner ear problem, there are many THEORIES as to what is the cause.  It causes great dizziness and in many cases when it goes finaly completely away it leaves the person deaf to mostly deaf in the affected ear...yuck.  My mom found a specialist in this problem a few years ago after basically not being able to funtion from an outbreak that lasted several week.  This Dr. performed a surgery that was suposed have stopped her form of the problem.  We (my sister and I) have not heard of any problems since so we pushed this to the backs of our minds and went on with life.  Evidently ithe surgery did NOT fix the problem, just lessened the occurances... For Mother's day, Mom went to my sister's home, a 3.5 hour's drive for her.  She started feeling the onset of a "dizzy spell" as she calles them on the day she was planning to leave so, telling no one, she takes a pill, drives herself home on  via I-65 THROUGH INDIANAPOLIS  fighting dizzy spells the whole way.  Never tells anyone.  On Tues, She came over here to my house (another 3.5 hour drive) to see my youngest be inducted into the Jr. National Honor Society.  Come Weds. morning, she seems very anxious to leave...not like her at all (She usually is anxious to clean my house).  Little do I know she is having another "dizzy spell" so she drive home through the *Bleeping* construction zone here in Dayton on I-70, through yet again, Indianapolis and home...but wait!  As bad as she feels, her bestest friend in the entire world calls her on her cell phone and asks my mom to stop at Walmart and pick up something on her way.  Does Mom say no?  No.... she stops, drives out of her way to drop off the item(s) and is feeling so bad that she decided to take the back roads home rather than the direct route so  that "if she has an accident it will be only her"  These are roads known only to people who grew up in the area and if she has accident it may be HOURS before she is found. ARGGGGGHHH!  And still she has not told anyone about these dizzy episodes.
    When my sister calls me at 7:30 on a Saturday morning, I know it's bad news.  She does not get up before noon usually (ok, that's an exaggeration but still she does not rise early).  She had got a call from one of mom's neighbors who had called an ambulence for my mother upon finding my mother flat on the floor, throwing up and not able to even move.  Mom gets to spend day in Hospital, then calles her speciallist only to find out that he is on vacation and out of the country. *sigh*  (He must be related to my dentist...)  Only through insistance from all relatives does she make an appointment with his partner for later this week. 

So now I'm left wonderin what's in store for this week.  I was so looking forward to the weekend and going to the great gaming con Marcon.  If I'm not there I guess I will be at my mom's.  Nothing seems to go right in my family.  Rants about other family member will have to wait at this point.