She's going home
@sallypup (61633)
Centralia, Washington
March 7, 2018 9:11pm CST
I talked with the sister that my Mom lives with. I talked with her today. Its not up to me. All care for Mom was taken from me a long time ago. All decisions are up to somebody else. I just listen and once in a while put in my two cents: "She's looking for comfort. All people do it." Sister won't listen.
No. Sister will put my Mom through another test. This time she says that sometimes a bladder infection causes a person to think they are some where else and want to be somewhere else. I know, that sounds silly to me, too.
Mom will be 97 this coming November. Its hard to live with somebody thinking they are some where else, day in and day out. I think its natural that she is turning her face toward her childhood home, her solace. She's headed toward God. Poking and prodding is not going to change that need, that must have. Mom is just getting ready to go home.
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@JudyEv (342110)
• Rockingham, Australia
8 Mar 18
@JamesHxstatic We had our offices in a building, part of which housed a number of Alzheimber's patients. As soon as their behaviour varied from what was normal for them, they would be tested for a urinary tract infection. It was always the first option.
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@rebelann (112977)
• El Paso, Texas
10 Mar 18
It can happen @sallypup mom was never actually cured of hers, I found out about it when she was 93 and the doc back then said she'd had it for at least a year prior ..... she and I hate going to doctors in case you wondered why it took so long to find out ..... and when I got her on meds to cure the problem I was faced with her stubborn refusal to take the medication and boy was she sly, after a while she'd pop the pills in her mouth and take a drink then I'd find the remnants of that pill in the toilet where she'd spit it out. She did live to be 99 and once I lost guardianship to sibling it continued because sibling refused to believe me when I mentioned it.
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@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
8 Mar 18
I do hope that things get easy for you mom. Mine lived to an unhappy 99.
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@sallypup (61633)
• Centralia, Washington
8 Mar 18
@JamesHxstatic I like your photo. Your Mom was unhappy? Dementia when she aged? I never dreamed that my Mom would still be here at going on 97.
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@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
8 Mar 18
@sallypup The last 20 years or so were not happy ones for her, but she was never a very happy person at best.
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@sallypup (61633)
• Centralia, Washington
8 Mar 18
@andriaperry Thank you. I appreciate your warmth.
