Monday, May 10, 2010

Nana

To begin the story I have to give her an introduction. Nana is my grandmother. I am the youngest of her ten grandchildren and I am writing her story as a call for help and advice. My grandmother is being mentally and financially abused by the rest of my extended family ( excluding my family). Crimes of elder abuse against her include the following:
- theft of money through credit card number retrieval
-physical neglect ( won't take her to a doctor grocery store ect.)

These are the two most concrete describable issues but she also grapples with constant lying and manipulation from her children and their children( my cousins). The reason that I know this is because my mom is depended on heavily to take care of her and drive her to every place that she needs to go. My relatives only attend family functions and get-togethers to snatch from my grandmother the check that she bribes them with. My relatives ( for the most part) are selfish, greedy, careless villains who don't know or care about what is best for my grandmother. But even more than for my grandmother, I am writing this blog for my mom because this situation forces her to do many things that mess her emotionally and this affects me personally. She often has spouts of frustration because the only way for her to possibly escape the situation without unintentionally hurting my grandmother is to wait until she dies ( my grandmother is in her early 90s) But my mom has to be especially careful because my grandmother is also the one who pays for my school tuition because she places a high value on education. To end this rant, I am angered that my family has to go through this immense amount of stress just to get me a good education and I think there is something that should be done I just don't know what.

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