I was in the hospital for 4 days suffering from pneumonia and an extreme pain in my lower abdomen, testicles and scrotum. Apparently that was attributed to an overdose of antihistamines and a flash of diabetic neuropathy. I may now be allergic to antihistamines and I’m not liking that assessment… I did manage to feel better and get through the toughest part of the pneumonia, antibiotics working to help me kick the infection. I was given a prescription and sent on my way… I didn’t want to leave; there were a couple nurses and orderlies (they’re not called that anymore O.o) that I wanted to ask out, but I only got to ask one and she turned me down. (sad face)
Needless to say I had a treat when my niece and sister I hadn’t seen in nearly 24 years shows up at the hospital and wants to see me get better (T). My other two sisters were there (C and B), and we hadn’t been together since our mother was alive. This was a treat…
A family friend of B’s had a heart attack and was admitted to the same hospital and she went to see him. C and my niece (J) went for a cigarette and to check on the puppies in the car J and T had driven in from Georgia. Mike was with T and she pulled him aside, out in the hallway after meeting me for about 10 minutes, and asked him, without my permission, if I could stay with him to help him with his twins and look after him. How rude! I didn’t know this man and she’s forcing him on me like some kind of deranged pimp or something. I told Mike that I appreciated the offer and that I would have to think about it. He agreed.
When C came up, she brought me some clean clothes. She told me that I had undies in those clothes; I didn’t look well enough to find them and thought she didn’t. I told her I didn’t find them. (This was just before she and J left for a smoke.) T and Mike left to smoke and J came back up; C had to make a couple of phone calls and stayed downstairs. When J, T and Mike came back, I was served my lunch. It looked just awful, and it nearly smelled the same way. T offered to go get some lunch for the 4 of us and I wrote my order down for Subway. I also wrote down J’s order and Mike and T left for lunch retrieval.
I told J that I did not have clean undies and she called her mom, T, and tells her about it. She goes to Walmart and searches for some, HJMS and while T’s searching she’s still talking to J on the phone (size, colors, and other such things). Sometimes T can’t find certain things when they’re right before her eyes; typical T. She asks about FoTL, asks the size again and picks up a three pack. Little did I know B was coming back to the room. She was peckish and wanted some lunch too. J called T to stop by McDonald’s to pick up a Big Mac and a Dr Pepper. She agrees.
J and I talked about her mom with B offering her bits about T’s overbearing nature. I told T several times in phone conversations that “… [she] needs a good woman in her life.” She kept thinking I was talking about her turning lesbian and following that path. I was talking about her finding a good woman for a friend and someone to confide in, other than her daughter J who she considers more of a friend than her own daughter. I also tried to explain to J that T’s been trying to usurp her control over J’s household at home, and J informs me that when T tries, J leaves the house to cool off, and to let T realize what she’s did to run J off. (We’ve had several conversations about T and it always ends up with J leaving the house and T staying there.)
T’s plan is for Mike and his twins to move to Georgia, to be with her, in J’s house. J has a lot of room, but is not ready to have children in her home, much less a stranger’s. We have had conversations about other things, and this one stuck in J’s craw. Her hubby, Anton, is in Iraq, trying to help rebuild some infrastructure that was lost over the war. Anton known of T’s tirades and bullying. Too bad Anton can’t reach out to J and find out about the conditions of the household.
As I was getting ready to check out of the Health Hotel, I asked one of the orderlies (Natalie) if she was seeing anyone. She told me she was. I gave her my number. She accepted it. I was so happy. C helped me out with B’s netbook and my other belongings. (I borrowed it on my trip to C’s to stay for a while while we tried to get me into the TVRHA in Tupelo.) I had a feeling they were going to keep me for a few days; too bad I didn’t have the forethought to grab clothing too.
C and I got to Walmart and I turned in my prescription. We had a little shopping to do and we covered most of the store. I was in a powered cart because it still hurt to walk (lower abdomen, etc.), and she had a regular shopping cart. We parted for a little bit while I went back to the pharmacy to see if my prescription was filled. C went into the next aisle to field a call from T. C told me that I had talked to P&M about staying at their place; we were just talking, nothing set in stone yet. C also told her about her calling a few days previous; T told her that she had just checked her phone and it was in her purse.
Misconstrued information and about two hours later, I’m talking to P on Skype and we’re having a great conversation. A good back and forth about the possibilities of my staying with her and M and her 8 kids. I thought that would be wonderful. So did she. T calls and asks to speak to me, she thought that C told her I was moving into P&M’s home and that C had dropped me off there. T was on speakerphone and I was on Skype with P. P told T twice about my being on Skype and not at her home; T didn’t want to hear it! She started yelling at P about lying that I was there. P hung up on her.
P and I started back again. I left my mic near my cell, on speakerphone, so P could hear my conversation with T. She told me about some crap that C had lied to her about my being over at P&M’s; T also said she talked to Mike. Mike had called P and it had nothing to do with T and her crap with me and C, in the interim. I told T that it was ultimately my decision and that P and I were still talking about it.
T started yelling at me again. In the hospital, when she yelled, I lost my respect for her. What the Hell?! This time I wasn’t taking it. I called J back on the home phone to just talk to her, and the conversation started pretty normal. I kept the mic situation the same way as before. I never knew T was so paranoid that she had picked up the extension and listened in on our conversation. I told J that her mother was a bully. That’s when all Hell broke loose! T started yelling and told me I was an idiot for thinking that. That’s when I hung up. P thought I fainted away and asked if I was okay. I said I wasy.
Talking to P, I told her that T needs to seek professional help. Our conversation went back to something else, I don’t really remember what it was about. Tina calls back and apologizes about her tirade, crying crocodile tears, and trying to get me to accept her apology and to forgive her negativity. All I replied was “Uh huh.” for all of her questions. I was typing to P and she was listening. As soon as the conversation began to turn, T immediately stopped her faux sadness and began to get fixated on some stuff about C and about B, and I told her they had nothing to do with my decision and where I’m going to stay. Then T starts to accuse me of withholding information from her. Yes, I didn’t want her to know I was staying in Tupelo with B. Yes, I didn’t tell her I moved from Florida to Mississippi. She never told me that she moved from Mississippi to Georgia for almost 4 months. I found out looking at her Skype profile! I asked her about looking at my Skype profile. Her response: “I never looked at it. I don’t have to.” Then more about how she’s been trying to get this done, get that done, and wanting Mike and I to travel to Georgia and visit over the summer.
I told her that I wouldn’t right now because I’m not comfortable with the way she forced me on him at the hospital the day before. She started yelling at me again. I hung up.
P and I parted ways on Skype and I went to bed. P was amazed that T would not let stuff go… She did live with T for a few months, too. She and M knew!
Here’s something that I wrote today to J on Facebook about how I have perceived T, her mom, and that I’m no longer considering anything she says nor am I allowing her to interfere with my life and my future.
—Facebook Tirade Starts—
Yesterday
J: Hey I’m sorry about earlier I didn’t know my mother was on the phone
Today
7:05pm
Me: that’s fine. i explained how i felt, imho, to you in the texts i sent this morning.
i love you. i always will. you’re mom needs to stay out of my life for what she’s trying to do. she needs to stop trying to be “the good Christian” and learn to be a loving caring meaningful person who is not always on the defensive
7:11pm
Me: T needs to understand that her ways are driving the people she ‘supposedly’ loves the most out of her life. judgement will come, but not from me, from God, and when she realizes that’s all she’s doing is judging people, and running roughshod over them for ‘apparently’ not listening to her side, then she is welcome back. until she seeks professional care, enters some kind of psychiatric ward to accept her real problems of “delusion”, “hysteria”, “paranoia”, and “lack of self control”, then i want nothing more to do with her.
7:13pm
Me: as far as the reunion, off. if i feel we can have one, it’s not at your house. sorry, T’s got too much influence in your life. your husband needs to be a part of your life more (not saying he’s a bad man for being away and making a living), i’m just saying that it’s T that needs to vacate your house instead of you when she’s rampaging. she’s so quick to temper, quick to judge, and she’s always thinking that someone’s trying to pick on her, screw her over and mess with her head that she can’t see the forest for the trees. T’s a mess, and she needs assistance getting cleaned up.
7:16pm
Me: i’m sorry, but that’s how i feel. that’s my opinion. if T thinks she can keep on keeping on the track she feels is most Christian, then <kiss> beautiful. if she comes to the realization that there’s a problem in her burning bridges of those who care about her the most, then she can find a short pier and take a long walk. i need not her kind of sisterly love and her flavor of Christianity in my life.
7:17pm
Me: when i find someone i truly care about, a girlfriend or significant other who wants to spend the rest of her life with me, and T’s still like this, she’s not going to be welcome in my home.
C’s already told me that T’s no longer welcome in her home. C’s also fed up with T’s lies and untruths, as i am.
i’d call, but i’m afraid T’s going to jump on the phone, like last night, and try to call me into her rage and disappointment. sorry T, never going to happen again. you fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me! that’s where I am, J.
7:21pm
Me: if you feel offended with what i’ve said about your mom, i was not trying to offend you in the least. i just wanted to say how i felt and wanted to vent; T, right now, is a bad influence in your life. she wants “what’s best for you” but had a twisted way of showing it– you do something that’s not ‘right’ in her eyes and instead of asking and showing what was wrong– she barks orders, screams and yells and tells you right where you need to go <straight to Hell>.
7:24pm
Me: T needs to take some of her own advice and find herself a nice well-woven hand-basket, the biggest box of Life cereal she can find, and realize you, me, C and B are trying to give her the benefit of the doubt, but all T sees is a bunch of her siblings as talking heads, spouting off devilish things. we dislike her actions. we dislike what she says about us. we still love the person. wherever T is, we want that T back.
if you feel you need to call me, do so away from your house.
i love you
—Facebook Tirade Ends—
It’s not that I hate my sister. Quite the opposite. We find in our everyday lives joys, happiness, fun, turmoil and drama. I prefer the drama I can turn off with a remote (or with a switch). T seems to think she’s still in her 20s and had to bully her way back into our lives. She used to be a kinder, gentler soul, but all the crap she’s been through, and the stuff she personally witnessed (or claims to) has twisted her mind. We all suffer from some kind of mental states; me with my transgender realization; C with her becoming introverted when she needs to say something; B with her no nonsense attitude and truthful nature, telling someone how it is and how it affects her and the people around her.
T is going to go off on the wrong people and find herself in a world of trouble. I love her dearly, don’t get me wrong, but what the Hell is going on with her? I’d love to drop some recordings of her craziness, but I wont to protect the privacy of those I deal with on a regular basis. She needs to come to the realization that what she’s doing is wrong and seek help. If not, help will be sought for her. I can even do it from here, but J needs to do it from her home. T needs some tough love and a Divine Intervention…
And I sincerely hope it comes soon.
My Transgender Friend 