In a mess...

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I’m in a mess of social situations and I’m not quite sure what to do about any of it. So first the more pressing situation dealing with my family:

So, quick backstory, my grandfather has been in the hospital since a few weeks before Thanksgiving (the day of the Leonid meteor shower if you can remember that) with a severe stroke that paralyzed his right side and made it so he could no longer swallow. They gave him an (unnecessary) tracheotomy and drugged him into a living zombie. We then switched hospitals and while they still drugged him (he kept trying to pull out wires) they also insisted that he was getting therapy even though he wasn’t. We have kept a constant vigil as per my Grandmother’s request since he was first admitted into the hospital. Since then my mother has gotten him off the drugs that doped him up and gotten the therapists to actually do their job. The hospital is understaffed, so my Grandfather is often left for a few hours in his own soil before anyone comes to clean him (after we've informed them), but other than that it’s really not too bad.

So tonight my Uncle sends my Mother this terribly rude email in which he basically called mom a paranoid schizophrenic drug addict (which she isn't) who has some sort of terrible personal agenda that conflicts with his. He also cryptically said he was prepared for the fallout and I have no idea what that means but from context clues throughout the rest of the email and what I know about the slime I’m pretty sure that he’s working on controlling my Grandmother and my Grandparent’s lawyer into changing the will so that my (as he puts it, insane) mother (and our family) is left out and he gets all the money. The reasons I say this is because he always opposes Grandpa getting therapy or switching to a better hospital where they will actually be able to take care of him and help him. I can only assume that the reason for this is twofold 1) he wants to spend as little money on Grandpa as possible so that when Grandpa dies he gets a larger inheritance and 2) he wants Grandpa to die faster so he can get the inheritance faster. While this is a terrible thing to accuse anyone of my Uncle pretty much said in so little words that’s what he’s doing. He’s not the brightest man in the world.

Anyway, the problem isn’t that my Uncle is being a jerk and trying to get all the inheritance for himself. The problem is that my Uncle is trying to kill my Grandfather and my Grandmother doesn’t believe that her “perfect” son could ever do anything like that because she is well under him thumb. I’m not entirely sure what to do about it, since I’m fairly certain I’m the only one who can do anything about it since my Uncle didn’t try to say I was as crazy as my mother and my Grandmother might listen to me if I tried to talk some sense to her. Thing is…how do you tell someone that their son is a lying conniving little weasel who is trying to kill your husband in the nicest way possible? And better yet how do you keep it from exploding in your face?

And now the school issues:

I’ve got that sickening feeling in the pit of my stomach that one of my best friends might be using me. I mean, I had the same suspicion last semester, but this semester really has me wondering. She’s always borrowing things from me. Asking to use my pencils, asking to use my glue, asking for my food. I’m not very good at saying no, and anyway she’s my friend and I assume that being friends with someone means that you share what you have with them…right? Well, anyway, the thing that really got me wondering is what whenever I ask to hang out she has to do homework or it’s too cold or something of that nature. We seem to only hang out on her time and I don’t know whether that’s a good thing or not. I have so few friends that I don’t want to loose her as a friend but I’m not sure what exactly to do or how I would confront her if I ever got the courage to.

My guy friends are also a problem. Not a problem for me exactly, but they’re affecting a few of my other friends and that affects me. They’re being really controlling. Like…really controlling. They constantly berate my girl friends who have boyfriends about the boyfriends and they are often very rude and pretend like the other boy doesn’t even exist. They also managed to get one of my friends alone and were talking to her and her boyfriend (who is like literally the perfect guy for her right now because he’s so relaxed and uncontrolling) was all worried that they were telling her that she shouldn’t be with him and the thing is he’s probably right because that’s something they would do and one of my roomies was really mad at them because of that. They’re so hung up about the whole “perfect Christian” thing and they’re really nice guys it’s just…I worry about them and I worry about the friends I have that their controlling idiocy (I call it idiocy because I honestly think they mean well and want their friends to be with the best person for them...they're just strongly opinionated in this matter) is affecting. I’m sort of stuck in the middle as well, since they leave me alone, as I have no interest in the sort of relationships they like to control. I guess I should just watch it play out?

Any suggestions or advice would be appreciated. Really just writing this all out was a lot of help to try to get my thoughts centered and makes me feel better.