I'm a 17 year old boy from Bristol, I live with my sister and parents. This isn't easy for me writing this but I don't know how else to go about the issue I have. My parents haven't had the easiest of lives and I'm sure there is a lot more that has gone on that i am unaware of. My mum has had problems with her brain since she was a baby, she had a brain hemorrhage at the age of 3, and has had 3 tumours on her brain. She lost her eyesight and her ability to walk properly. I remember when we were younger she used to be able to run about with me and my sister in the snow, playing and laughing, but now she cannot stand up for long, this is due to her not doing her exercises after her operation to remove a tumour years back.
My dad didn't have a great childhood, his dad wasn't a very nice man from the stories I've heard, there isn't a lot to write on this issue as i haven't heard full stories and what i have heard is from only one side of the story. He has got depression now, looking after my mum isn't easy, as i know from looking after her while dad was in hospital for a while. My dad now has a growth of some sort on his brain but he isn't sure what it is yet but he is expecting the worst, also making him depressed. In the day when he is sober he is a very snappy person anyway, and gets stressed out by the littlest things.
My dad is the worst for drinking, he has atleast a bottle of cider a night, and i know he has a sneaky whiskey and lemonade, and trips to the pub that he thinks i don't know about, my mum due to her disabilities get drunk on a glass of wine and a doctor stupidly told her that drinking alcohol wont affect her brain because of her shunt, so now she thinks she can drink. She drinks a bottle of wine every other night if that but when she does drink all hell breaks loose! My dad gives her the alcohol, if he doesn't then she will keep shouting at him all night.
When my parents drink they will argue all night, my mum wont get into the bedroom gone midnight, she struggles to get from the bathroom to the bedroom when sober, so they are arguing from the bathroom to the bedroom, my mum shouting at the top of her voice. When my dad ignores her she gets louder. I don't sleep much when they've had a drink, i want to just pour all the alcohol in the house down the drain but that wont stop them from going to the pub. I just don't know what to do anymore.
