Okay, there is a lot I have to say. So, beware. lol
My mom is 39 years old. I have an older brother who is 19 and I am 13. I don’t know my dad’s age. Yes, I appreciate having a roof over my head, good food to eat. My family is middle class and we are good in the economy and so on. My mother’s heart rate runs like at fifty percent and that is something you should pay attention too.
I have severe Asthma. It sucks, it really does. I can’t go to public school its so severe. Last time I did, I got mono from drinking out of a water fountain. lol I’ve had a pretty rough medical history. Such as, being 18 months old and being shocked every few seconds for some kind of cancer test or something. A lot worse has happened, but I don’t feel like going through medical records. Oh, and she ALWAYS tells people how hard it was to WATCH me be put through operations. When, she had a CHOICE to watch or not. I was forced. I didn’t have a choice for five metal wires to be shoved down my nose. Or to be stuck in the hospital with tubes in my throat (through my nose, down my thoart to my stomach) and not be able to eat for 13 days. Not lieing either.
My mother and father preached to me and everyone around me that smoking was terrible. She swore up and down to me that she never smoked. Told doctors that no one in the house did, whatever.I remember vividly asked, "Mom, do you smoke?" after I had found one smashed in the driveway. She said, "No, sweetheart. I’d never touch one of those fifthly things. I promise."
I was about ten then. I was ignorant and I believed her. But, that didn’t stop me from paying more close attention.
So, about in May, I walked outside on morning to go to dance. And, (guess what?) she was sitting on the steps with one of them things hanging out of her mouth. Her cousin was standing there without one, (I know he smokes. It bugs me and I HATE IT. HE STINKS THE HOUSE UP WITH SMOKE, well, she does too)
So, I ran to the car. I threw my dance bag in the front seat, calmed my breathing (mostly temper. I have anger issues.) and walked back to the house. And there her cousin was, with a have smoked cig in his mouth. Where did he get that? I wonder. He took it from here to cover up for her!
Okay, well, my dad took me to dance a few minutes later. In the car, I asked, "Dad, does Mom smoke?"
He said, "Well, no! Of course not."
I texted a friend. I was MAD by then.
She said she had known five months before. Her mother advised her not to say anything, because she had no dog in that race.
I looked at my dad, and said, "(Friend’s name) has known for five months!"
All I got from him was, "Well. Sorry." In a tone screaming; Big baby. I don’t have time for you.
Was I really overreacting?
Well, since I was mad, I started crying and shaking. My ribs hurt the next day from shaking so bad. So, my dad sent me into Burger King (random, right?) saying "I need to clean my face up. My mascara is running."
I wasn’t wearing any mascara. He really sent me in there to give my mom a heads up on that I knew.
She never said anything. I found everything. Where she hides her cigs, where he nicotine gum (weird) is at. and I’ve seen her numerous times with one in her mouth, smoke blowing through her nose.
One day, I was going on a two week croos-country trip with the friend i mentioned before. Her grandparents invited us, but my mom wasn’t going. She stayed with me and her cousin at a hotel. I was really upset because she refused to let my dad come and I didn’t get to say bye to him because she wanted to be gone before he was home. The night I was leaving, I went swimming in the hotel we stayed at. My mom raced me two laps in the pool, jumped out saying, "My heart is racing. I’m done for the night."
Since, it was late and she was done swimming and I had a long two weeks ahead, I got out too. Our hotel was an outside. And there was a stairwell right next to our door. Her cousin said, "Don’t look at the stairwells. She’s on the phone."
Okay, well, i went to the room. I paused for a second, and i didn’t hear her say anything. I smelt smoke, so i busted into the room and released my anger out on a pillow. Poor pillow.
She came and and we had to share a bed that night. Only two beds in the hotel room. I coughed, gagged and was breathing terribly that night because SOMEONE smelt like a gasbomb.
So, a month later, two days ago, I was walking out of the hospital from getting a chest x-ray. Mom usually goes with me every time, and I wanted her to go this time because a male was giving me my chest x-ray. AWKWARD!
She said no and she would wait for me (with her cousin) in the lobby. After I was finished, I went to the lobby. No mother, no cousin. So, I looked around the other waiting rooms and the bathroom. Nope. Nothing.
I warned you it was long!!! btw, this is what happened over a span of like three years. So, yeah, its gonna be long. Don’t read it if you "have a life" it won’t bother me at all.
She was outside by the car smoking with her cousin. I had to ride home with the awful smell. She refused to roll down the windows or try to turn on the AC. And she isn’t trying to quit. When you are trying to quit, you don’t smoke 4-5 times a day. She uses the gum when I’m in the hospital so she doesn’t have to leave. I’ve done my homework, ppl. I know the details. I am trying to be mature, but anger issues kind of has its limits. I can’t control when I get angry or upset, and if i do, its hard to reverse it. I try to mature but it never works out that way because she ends up pissing me off again. I cant go to realtives. Only the household and her cousin know about this habit.
She doesn’t want me to smoke? Duh. It would kill me. I can’t even breathe second-hand, Imagine what the real thing would do. I’ve been sick since I was born because of that posion.
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