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The something not-so-good
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The something not-so-good It is 2am and my Mom isn't home yet. She left just as I was leaving for work, so, oh, 11 hours ago, to visit Grandma (her mom). Grandma's got the beginnings of Alzheimer's and last year she moved from her own apartment to a fantastic assisted living place (where her older sister, my Auntie B, has been a few years with more advanced Alzheimer's, but she still usually knows her family; Auntie B knew she had problems and was open to moving in there and all the help and everything, Grandma has faught Mom and Uncle Joe on everything). But Grandma's on the 'independant plan', where she handles most everything herself. They do come in to change her sheets and clean the apartment, but that's basically it. She's supposed to wear this life alert thing, so if she falls or whatever, she can push it and they nurses will come see what's wrong. But she doesn't wear it. And she does have a history of falling and being on the floor for a couple hours. Yesterday she fell. And wasn't wearing her life alert thing. So she sat on the floor for 5 hours before someone came to get her or she was able to get up (I'm fuzzy on how they found out she fell). Her life alert thingy was hanging on the chair a couple feet away, so she said she prboably could've crawled over to press it, but didn't. So however they found her, she was sitting in a puddle of urine, having been there for five hours. They called the ambulance, which they always do if a resident falls, but Grandma insisted she was fine and refused to go with them. This whole time, it's yesterday evening and Mom's still at school because there was a parent-teacher thing; so she keeps having to slip out to take cell phone updates. And can't go down to Grandma's. And Uncle Joe's just getting off a plane at Logan, so he can't quite run over either. After a big fight, Grandma lets them help clean her up. They say she will go to the hospital if she falls again. This morning when they go in to change her sheets, they notice she wet the bed sometime during the night. That could be a urinary tract infection, or maybe just the Alzheimer's. So this afternoon Mom leaves to go make sure she's ok, and try to get her to the ER to see if it's a UTI. Which I'm sure Grandma fought tooth and nail against, as is her fashion.  But it never used to be- the Alzheimer's changed her personality. SO Mom's still not home and I would like to be up when she does get home, cuz it's been one hell of a shitty day I'm sure, and she probably really needs a big old hug and shoulder to cry on. I just hope she made time to eat throughout all this, cuz she has diabetes.  I don't have to be at work til 4 tomorrow, so I could sleep til 2pm if need be. So I'll stay up. That's it for now. I just heard the dryer buzz that my laundry's dry, so I guess I'll put that away. I usually start my laundry after work at night, and hopefully remember to dry it before I need it the next afternoon. lol But tonight I remembered I needed to wash it in time to both wash and dry, and now, apparently, to put it away. |
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9/24/2006 8:28 pm |
It's always good to be there for her.I'm sure she never takes it for granted and knows how you feel about her.
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