"It's one thing to be with your friend, another for sure to have to deal with all his family."
Actually, the family are much nicer and more bearable than he is. He has a heart of gold, but he's also a stupid, argumentative 84-year-old noncompliant diabetic with heart and kidney failure. He drives his only daughter and only attentive son to tears of frustration because he won't bloody listen to them or his doctors. At least not consistently.
But since I figure he's not likely to be around next Xmas, based on how he's going, I thought we ought to make the effort this time (we usually gracefully decline.) But that's his lot :)
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Actually, the family are much nicer and more bearable than he is. He has a heart of gold, but he's also a stupid, argumentative 84-year-old noncompliant diabetic with heart and kidney failure. He drives his only daughter and only attentive son to tears of frustration because he won't bloody listen to them or his doctors. At least not consistently.
But since I figure he's not likely to be around next Xmas, based on how he's going, I thought we ought to make the effort this time (we usually gracefully decline.) But that's his lot :)