Thanks for listening to my Call of the Day podcast. You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph 11. Tom, welcome to the program.

Great. Thank you, Dr. Laura. So I've gotten a big fight this morning with my mother unintentionally. I've got it starts. I've got in a big fight this morning with my mother unintentionally.

I've been pissed at her for probably the last seven or eight months.

She's had diabetes and neuropathy and a bunch of diabetic complications.

And she doesn't take care of herself.

And she had an open wound on her foot for like 10 to 15 years or just some absolutely

crazy amount of time.

And I was the one that's been helping her for the last eight years after my dad died.

And my dad had ALS for about a year than he died.

And then I get in this big fight with her when she's in the hospital and she's got a bone infection and they're about to release her and the doctor says to me, you know, you need to take her home. And I said, no, I'm not taking her home. She needs to go to skilled nursing. If she doesn't go to skilled nursing, she's going to lose her foot. That's why she's here with a bone infection. Right. Good point. I told her, I said, if you're going, then she said to me, you need to take me home, go to the grocery store, get my dog, all this stuff, basically bossing me around, because we are in a codependent relationship. I did read codependent no more last year. And I said to her, if you're going home, I'm not helping you. You need to call my brother. So I finally stood up to her over her

illness and And I said to her, if you're going home, I'm not helping you. You need to call my brother.

So I finally stood up to her over her illness and she's been on fentanyl for about 20 years.

So I think it's really kind of fright her brain.

So she was, you know, angry with me and then she ended up moving about five hours north of here where we live, where she was, to an area

that's cheaper, but in, you know, assisted living.

You know, she and my brother didn't tell me that she was moved.

They've changed her will without telling me.

I was supposed to be the power of attorney, because I had power of attorney, which is what

I wanted to use to make medical decisions for her to put her into skilled nursing so

she wouldn't lose her foot. So long story short, she ended up losing her foot, which I knew was

inevitable. And, you know, she complains about it and drives me crazy. And I saw her this weekend,

and she's, you know, complaining about the loss of her foot. And it's her own damn fault. You know, she did it to herself. And my brother and I got in a big fight over it. And my brother said, you know, I act like a girl because, you know, I'm gay and I have my emotions, you know, of a 17-year-old girl. And I should just let an adult woman, you know, do what she wants. And I said I said you know when we were kids your

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