Re: Mom Update 11/20/2008

Criminy Jill,

This whole thing just sounds like a nightmare. I can't believe the lawyer didn't keep a copy of the POA papers. That is insane. At this point, I really don't know what to even say to you because there is so much going on that it is unreasonable for one person to really be handling it. I am so glad you have a great hospice program there to support you because it sounds like all the other institutions from the hospital to the lawyer to the pharmacy exist only to see if they can make life a little tougher.

I hope your mother is feeling better today and I hope you got some rest. Out of curiosity, where is LLL. You've posted often about your mother, but he is one of your supports and I would hope that he is supporting you if by nothing but phone. I will continue to have the cats purr for things to calm down and get to some sort of normalcy.

I am also glad you have this group. I don't know about other people, but I am always glad to see your daily update. As always, you are in my thoughts and prayers.

Bridget

"jmcquown" <j_mcquown@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:6ol6rhF487roU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I managed to get some sleep last night. But the poor CNA who sat with her had a time of it. The CNA (Shay) who was here during the day told the new nighttime CNA (Joyce) oh, it's easy. You just have to reposition her from time to time, make sure she's comfortable. Change her diaper and wash her a two or three times. Give her ginger ale or juice. Piece of cake.

Not last night! Mom vomited about 5 times and developed diarrhea. Mom barely ate anything yesterday so I don't know what that's all about. She wasn't having these issues even when she was still in the hospital. Joyce ran out of the wipes the hospice provided. (I just happened to have another package of them, but I didn't know about all this until this morning.)

I called and told the on-call hospice nurse. She told me to crush a couple of Immodium in water and give it to her by oral syringe. Fortunately I happened to have some Immodium tablets. She called in a prescription. Mom is on a liquid diet for today until we see how things go.

Her regular hospice nurse wasn't scheduled to visit again until tomorrow. But she'd called yesterday and said she'd call me today to see if I needed her to come out. I left a message saying yes, please come out today.

Mom says she's not in pain. She asked for more ginger ale this morning. And I'm told she wanted to look at the newspaper during the night. But right now she's just plain worn out from being moved around to be changed all night. Joyce even changed the bottom *** and did laundry! although how she managed to get the *** off the bed and a clean one on I don't know.

Shay, the day-time CNA just arrived. I'll be able to go to the grocery store today, at least.

Thank you all for your support, suggestions and continuing purrs. You have no idea how much that helps me.

Jill

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