sunday, august 24, 2008.
5:47pm
my brother mike is in a rehabilitation facility right now as i speak.
i think he is going to be in there for at least another week cause i think he started in there on monday or tuesday and his consouler said that it was a two week treatment program.
yesterday mom and i had to go to this place up in brighton where michael is staying and we pretty much spent the whole afternoon there.
i didn't really want to go because i knew it was going to take the whole afternoon and now dad pretty much expects me to go next saturday as well.
i don't want to go because in the past mike has been a fucking pain in the ass...
yeah i know that your going to say that i should be more caring and so forth but you haven't lived with him like i have.
you don't know much of a fucking pain in the ass he has been over the years.
i hate him but by default i love him because he is my fucking brother.
anyways on saturday i had to go with mom out to brighton to see our wondeful little mike.
mike is my younger brother and he is twenty five years old, and i'm almost two years older than him.
or maybe he's only twentyfour still.
i went over to my parent's house yesterday morning at about ten a.m. and we left at about ten thirty.
my mom drove which made me a little uneasy and add to that the stress that i already felt for having to go to this hospital place to see my brother.
so we got there at about 11:45a.m. and we had to wait until noon to see mike.
we met him in their gym and most of the other people that came to visit the other patients that were staying there had brought lunches.
my mother and i didn't know that we could do that.
mike had been eating lunch in the patients cafeteria so, i don't think he even knew that we were here to see him, it took him a little while before he came and spent time with us in the gym.
after all of the other patients came in and sat down with their visitors we were still waiting for mike.
so i went up to the front desk and asked if my brother knew that we were here to see him.
so i think we spent a little less than an hour with him and then he went to this meeting that he had with the counsouler and we were supposed to go to a meeting as well.
i decided that i was going to get lunch instead and mom said that she would go to the meeting.
before she went to the meeting i told her that the meeting is probably going to be an introduction to the program that they run here and try to make us understand what it is that the patients here are going through.
Reflections...
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It's a long way down
and you missed a spot
on the window.
It's a quiet balance
washing away the
circles of my reflection.
16 years ago