red wine and sleeping pills

well, I'm going to visit my cousin today at ECMC. The newest news is he has agreed not to do it again, he's being released this week, but they have him on meds that make him jittery and they won't take him off of them even though his mother/my aunt/a nurse practitioner has taken his pulse and demanded that they lower the dose.
arg.
so my aunt cathy sneeks him cigarettes, haha.
but anyways, he's doing better, which is a huge relief.
and I'm off... to endure my mother's bitter resentment at having guests in her house (my aunt liz is here and we're having my aunt cathy and cousins over for brunch).