Cheese an *expletive deleted*ing rice on a flaming pogo stick what a *expletive deleted*ing side show.
This might be a little long but the backstory is relevant and I need to vent a little
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My wife's oldest brother, 54 years old, (she is the oldest of 6 (5 still living) is a serious piece of work. Lots of recreational pharmaceuticals in his younger days. His 1st marriage was a disaster but netted one crotch spawn (That kid could fill an entire page of stupid *expletive deleted*it last we knew he was living large as an urban outdoorsman somewhere in Tulsa). When that fell apart he doubled down on the drugs and booze lifestyle. Managed to get himself in trouble with the law and by sheer luck and fast talking by my father in-law (may he rot in hell) he managed to end up in a rehab facility instead of jail. He found religion while in rehab and ended up in a very controlling, cultish church. They even found him a new wife. Yeah that ended poorly.
Once he got shut of her he seemed to pull his head out of his ass and start to act like a mostly responsible adult. He had a carpet and tile installation business going on and was doing pretty decent with it. Then the youthful indiscretions (and possible meth use at the time) caught up with him and he had a couple of heart attacks. Pretty well ruined him physically. He lived with my wife's sister and her husband for most of 2 years before he could finally get his disability approved and then get with the Cherokees and get into some kind of housing. Seemed to settle down after that. He also got himself a medical weed card. He is also type II diabetic on meds and insulin injections A year or so ago he once again re-found religion. Another branch of the same cultish church he had hooked up with before but this one seems to be mostly harmless. He was a pretty big help when my brother in law passed away in November and helped hold things together.
Recently his fecesbook postings have really started to slide in to the seriously paranoid range, *expletive deleted*it that would make George Noory blush. One of my most recent favorites is that the black stuff he was coughing up was because of the nanobots the government had put into his medical marijuana. There have been others but that was my favorite.
Today seems to be the day the *expletive deleted*it hit the fan. He's been staying with his sister for a few days. Both of my grandsons are also staying with her for the weekend. Knowing that he has been becoming increasingly unhinged, and was even this morning acting very odd even for him, including wandering around the backyard talking to himself or someone nobody else could see, my sister in-law and my niece decided it would be OK for him to work on my nieces brakes.
Some time during this event, either before or after he had sufficiently screwed that job up that my son in law the mechanic was called in, he revealed that he no longer needed his heart meds or diabetic meds because "God had healed him" and he hasn't taken any of them for over a week. The sister in-law had called my wife pretty upset with his behavior and asked what we thought she needed to do. We suggested she call an ambulance and tell them she thought he was having a diabetic event and was irrational and needed medical help. Yeah, didn't happen.
About an hour ago my wife got another call that her brother had gotten ahold of our 16 year old grandson and was trying to shake the demons out of him because he was possessed. I was out in the shop destroying some pretty nice hard maple on my wood lathe and didn't know anything new was going on till she stuck her head in my shop and said she was going to her sister's house. I was head to toe wood shavings and sawdust and she wasn't going to wait on me to clean up. By that time my son and his wife and my daughter and her husband had shown up. I called my son to warn them that his mom was on the warpath and inbound and once again suggested they attempt to get him medical help. Yeah, didn't happen.
They did get in touch with his preacher and 2 of his "friends" but they were all too busy to offer any help.
Wife shows up at sister in-laws place and lays into her younger brother. He gets pissy with her and my son and son in-law were concerned enough that they got between them. Both of them are 6'5" and pushing 300# and either one could disassemble the brother in-law on their own with out a whole lot of effort. Idiot brother in-law displays the most intelligent thing he's done in weeks and gets in his truck and drives away.
I suspect that if he has in fact stopped his meds he will likely be dead with in a week.
I really wish people could keep their drama contained.