So today Mike and I finally got some good news. As I'm sure everyone on this site who has ever read one of my posts on the message board would know, we have had troubles with his Mom and have had to seek legal advice for a few things. Well today we found out that his mom has voluntarily dismissed her petition for guardianship that we were fighting her over. Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!!!!!. This is a huge thing for us. Finally I am his POA which we had put in place a couple of weeks ago and now we don't have this whole guardianship hanging over our heads. I wasn't looking forward to court dates at all. And on August 10th for the first time since he came home from the rehab we were able to go to a dr.s appt all by ourselves (without his Mom) like grownups. I can't even explain how it feels to be 35 and 36 years old and have to go to the dr with his Mom. and on top of that having to argue with her about things that they ask that I would know or Mike would know but she doesn't know because she doesn't live with us or care for him. Things like how long he sleeps, how his digestive system is doing, his appetite things like that. I would answer and she would say things like I think he sleeps too much or hasn't he been constipated lately. Stupid things.....I think I would know if he was sleeping too much and I would definately know if he were constipated. I would just want to scream when she would do that because she doesn't help take care of him at all but while we were at the doctors she would act like she was involved in his day to day care I guess because she feels bad that she doesn't so she wants people to think that she does. She and Mike got into an argument on the 8th of this month and she hasn't tried to contact him at all. Which just goes to prove that she doesn't keep going when the going gets tough. If I quit talking to Mike everytime we got into an argument we would have stopped speaking a looooong time ago. It has been kind of nice around here without her constant calling and complaining so I'll count my blessing. This is how their relationship was before he had his strokes so I feel like our lives our returning to some kind of normalcy and it feels really good.......

Tina