Re: Very OT--Positive thoughts for my Mom and sis, Please????

Prayers and good thoughts on the way, Pati. Please think about assisted
living for your mum, it doesn't sound like she is really safe where she is
now. There are some wonderful places in Tucson, The Fountains and Amber
Lights come to mind right away and I am sure I can check out some others for
you at work. Let me know.

I dread this situation myself. MSM and I live across the street from one
another in a mobile home park, and we have a good time together when I'm not
at work. Part of my mind realizes that she will probably get feeble and die
eventually, and another part of my mind thinks that My Mom Is Invincible. I
thank God that I have lots of brothers and sisters to help look out for her
welfare (I have only to make one phone call or send one email and whatever
she needs magically appears) and then I think of my poor son, an only child
who has the future care of his mother and dad and stepmother to consider. I
can't imagine having to care for three parents!

Aaaack! I must quit borrowing trouble.

As I said, if I can be of any assistance in the matter, you know I am in
Tucson and will do some research. We have some amazing volunteers at work
who are actually living in assisted living situations for one reason or
another.

--
Carolyn in The Old Pueblo

If it ain't broke, you're not trying. --Red Green
If it ain't broke, it ain't mine. --Carolyn McCarty

If at first you don't succeed, switch to power tools. --Red Green
If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer. --Carolyn McCarty

"Pati Cook" <plhbc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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As many of you know I have been going through a bunch of health stuff.
And my sister in Tucson has MS, which is not fun either. Well, my Mom is
also having some problems, a little worse than I had known.
Five weekends ago, Mom fell, again. Sis had to take her to the ER
(hospital is very close to where Mom lives.) They checked her over and
sent her home. Mom is using a walker, and has been having some balance
problems off and on for several months.
But, ended up in the ER the next weekend, and the next, and the next. That
time they kept her in the hospital and ran a bunch of tests, including MRI
and CAT scans. She was transfered to a rehab facility, at the hospital, on
Thurs. Afternoon. (Almost a week ago.)
My sis called me to tell me this on Sat.
Mom has: mild Parkinson's, some dementia, and is so weak she isn't even
trying to walk at the moment. She is confusing info, and misremembering
lots of things.
I knew when I last saw her, a few weeks ago, that she was not doing at all
well. Now they hope that she can return to "independent living" but are
not sure. My nephew is living in the house with her, but he isn't there
all the time. When she falls, no one is there, frequently, who can help
her get up.
She did give up driving about a year ago, because she decided it made her
too "nervous". She has been riding the bus and my sis and her family have
been good about taking her grocery shopping and such. She had been doing
some part time fill in at a preschool (she's a retired primary school
teacher), but hasn't been able to do that with some of the medical
problems. (One of the falls before Christmas, she broke her kneecap--which
I didn't know until my sis told me on Sat.)

This has really gotten me upset, and I am trying to work through it. (plus
dealing with the financials here at home, and hoping we don't get the
house foreclosed on us.... Whole 'nother story there.)
And trying to get an appointment with a gyn to get my surgery dealt with,
and get meds straightened up.

All this is not as much as some of you are/have been going through, but it
is rough on me. Thanks for "listening".
Not much you can do, but let me vent on occasion, and send some good,
positive thoughts/prayers to Tucson for my Mom and Sis. I really hope that
Mom can pull through this one and stay with us for a while longer.

Thanks again,

Pati, in Phx
Pati@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


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