My Mother in-law is a widow of 11 months. She is a recovering alcoholic. She takes pain pills but we think she overdoes it on the pills.
Last Thursday she flew to out east to her husbands’ (passed away) daughters’ wedding. Here is a time line of events.
- Friday: scatters ashes of husband with his family, distraught, starts popping pills and drinking back in room.
- Saturday – so passed out and incoherent, is unable to attend wedding, stays in room all day, crying. His family (dead husband) shield his daughter from alcoholic step mother.
- Sunday- Still out of it his family give her choice to call sponsor and her family check or take her to hospital. She refuses information and about sponsor and her family and so she is taken to hospital. Obviously family is informed (us).
- Monday – still out east, she checks out of the hospital and is right now readying to come back to the mid west. She is due in at 6:30pm.
How do you handle such a situation.?
She is ~ 60, widowed, recovering alcoholic, her daughters live out of the state (10+ drive), one daughter lives local, ( I am the son inlaw).
She will come to our house first and then has a 90 min drive home. I think she will stay the night at our home.
There are many thoughts running though my head on how to handle this. I will be picking her up from the Airport too.
As a church going Christian person, I feel bad for her. How best to handle so it will work out of the best ?
She was escorted to the gate and still managed to miss her flight. I asked my wife to call our pastor and get some assistence. My wife has dealt with her mom’s bad behavior for 25+ years. Now her flight does not get in until 9:00pm. I just talked to my wife and offered some of your suggestions. I am not hearing back from my wife that she acknowledges that these things need to happen. I may need a plan b in my back pocket.
