I'm getting ready to go and visit Aunt Sue. Aunt Jo got a call from Uncle Owen, Aunt Sue's husband, earlier in the week saying that Aunt Sue is sick. Apparently very sick. She's in a local nursing home going through rehab and has some "strange type of cancer". That is really all I know.
My mother is one of 4, all girls. Aunt Jo, Aunt Sue and my Mother all live right around here. Aunt Cheryll lives in TN. No one talks to Aunt Cheryll too much just because she has almost always lived out of state and doesn't visit OH too much. So they're just not too close. Well, Aunt Jo and Aunt Cheryll have some "beef" from way back when, but I really don't know (nor do I care) what all that is about. No one, and I mean, no one, talks to Aunt Sue. She's always been the "I'm better than everyone else in this family" type of person. Everyone used to tolerate her and get together at her house for the obligatory holiday gatherings. At least we did until Grandpa died and Aunt Sue spent a large amount of the other 3 sister's inheritance. See, Aunt Sue was entrusted with being the executor of the estate because she worked for a lawyer and therefore obviously knew how it should all work better than the others. And that was the end of the Aunt Sue being tolerated by the other 3 sisters. Well at least by my Mother and Aunt Jo. Who knows what Aunt Cheryll was thinking, since she wasn't really ever around. Besides, I was just a little girl when all that happened and have had to piece it all together over the years.
Going back to where I started...Aunt Sue is sick. I'm going today with Aunt Jo and Grandma to visit her. I have absolutely no idea what to expect. And thus far, I'm not having too much emotion one way or the other about the whole ordeal. I'm not heartless, I do care. Its just that I really don't know Aunt Sue anymore. I haven't seen her in about 3 years since my Mother's wedding. And before that, God only knows! If anything, I'm kind of pissed off that it's taking an illness to get everyone together. The saddest part, in all reality this may be the only time Micah ever meets his Great Aunt Sue because the elder women in this family are so damned stubborn. (I guess I know where I get it from.)
Hopefully Aunt Sue will get better. Hopefully this will be enough to open up the eyes of this family. Hopefully this can be a sprinboard for the Sisters to start acting like sisters. Hopefully we can all appreciate life, at least a little bit more, after today.
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Nina why in the hell is this the first time I'm hearing about this?! I don't know why I have this urge, but I feel the need to tell you to behave yourself!!! And your family is in my thoughts and prayers.
You of all people know what I had to deal with when my grandma died and even moreso when my aunt died. Families have come together in these situations, and also have been MORE torn apart. Proceed with caution.
You are just hearing about it because I am just hearing about it. We'll see what happens.
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