Massage therapist
Channel: Mickey Mishra
Date: 2022-11-05

5:30 PM,  I had made an appointment with a massage therapist  for my foot after seeing a deal on Groupon for $20 off.    
She arrived soaked as they gave her the address that ended with a 9 instead of an 8 being the last digit.   I guess she walked around looking for 7009 instead of 7008 in the  rain for about 15 min.  Mind you, IT'S POURING OUT THERE!  
I just got home a bit before 5:30.  The Therapist was in typical work out gear.  And she was SOAKED!    

Therapist:  "Sorry I'm late, "..   
ME:   "Did you leave any water for Noah's Ark? LOL"  -  

Poor women is still DRIPPING on my floor.   Even her shoes are making girgling sounds when she walks..  :-)


  So I said straight up to go take a warm shower and gave her a towel and some of my dry clothes and we can schedule for another day.     

So, as some of you know?  I take care of my Folks.   My dad is doing okay.   My Mom?  Well.  She has trouble walking up steps and is loosing her eyesight.   I was hoping my sister would move in to take care of her, but... My Mom and my sister don't get along.    As of now, both don't even talk to each other.  So..  

As most sons from Asian families,   you are on the hook to take care of your parents as they get older .  And here I am.  Lulz...   I already have a place outside of CONUS,  so I DO have my own place.   But not in the US anymore.   

in fact, I made sure to help my mother out purchasing this very house as well.   Look at the deed if you wish.   I even signed it over to her.    So.  Yea.  I helped buy my mom a house as my sister was living with her while I was away in the military.    

I want to make sure that we have that context about "WHY are you living with your mom" comes up.  
Money is not an issue either for me.  Not boasting, but lets just say, I don't ever have to worry about money again.  
In fact, most of my things are in storage and in boxes as the house is up for market, and my mother needs a more manageable single level home after a Knee surgery.   

Welcome to my life.   If I'm not on call as Uncle? I am on call for "ITS BROKEN, Fix it!"    Mow the lawn. Be the I.T guy to fix her phone or tablet, to fixing her car no one else can seem to fix.  Typical Asian son stuff.   

Let's not mention trying to keep the piece between my neighbors and my mother and her outbursts and let me tell you, my next door neighbors have literally had enough of her with calls from the city and so forth with me trying to ease and even things over.  It's been as you can tell,   a huge drain on my life and a big responsibility.   
 
Many of the neighbors and other people see me usually out late at night because that's about the only time I actually get any real peace. Or be able to do any remote I.T. Work and admin I use to do.  

So its just long days of that if I'm not building data centers in Hillsborough, working for stack exchange , or doing other independent IT jobs like installation/ maintenance of CCTV and IP security systems for various businesses.    

But over the last year, I've wanted to finallybe able to maybe take a break and have my sister take over but that became an absolute impossibility as a blade as the relations between my sister and my mother have deteriorated to the point where she has called the police on my sister multiple times and they pretty much have sworn off not to speak to each other anymore.

It's getting really old for me to keep doing this.  I agreed to stay until the house was sold to help her move.   But as of late?   These kinds of outburst are now commonplace.   And, for my safety, I record them along with having Alexa take charge of at least one of the CCTV systems on sight.  

This episode however, is  not a skit.
  This is normally what goes on when I either have a client that needs to come over for a diagnosis, or any care I need like a massage therapist as its been getting pretty bad with my foot injury.     So its been like this for years.       

from having items thrown at me, to other things like as you can see in the video.   Its starting to be much more then I can handle alone.  And its time for me to let someone else take care of it. 

I hope you enjoy a bit of my day to day.  And I'm thankful the therapist was so understanding about how my mother called the cops on her.  She was very understanding of the situation, and I walked her out the door and gave her my Umbrella as she waited for her UBER driver.       And gave her a nice tip, even though I never got my ankle or foot worked on.    Sigh..  There goes $120 bucks.   
Oh well.    

Anyways, enjoy  a little part of my life.     And I hope to see you in Malaysia or India soon! 
Take care! 
-Mickey.