Subj : Long weekend (not the good kind)
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : j0hnny a1pha
Date : Tue Oct 08 2024 12:24 pm

 > We've been managing my mom's cognitive decline recently. The past few
 > weeks have been dealing with my mom thinking the neighbors were
 > calling
 > her crazy, people driving by the house and looking in while she's
 > cooking, and hearing people in her back yard.
 > 
 > She has a urinary tract infection, apparently they present with
 > hallucinations often in elderly women.
 > 
 > 7 days of oral antibiotics later, needing to make sure she keeps track
 > of the dosage, and she's still experiencing problems.
 > 
 > Saturday morning, she fell in the bathroom, breaking her hip and
 > elbow.
 > Wasn't wearing her medicalert necklace, she's lost it and didn't tell
 > me. She had to crawl to the phone to call me. Ambulance ride to the
 > hospital, lots of regular hallucinations combined with no food for 18
 > hours while they try to get her into surgery, then post-anasthesia
 > grogginess. All this happened on her 86th birthday.

I'm so sorry to hear that. I'm going through something similar as well,
but my mom is not even 80. As soon as kids grow up (if you have them), we
then become our parent's caretakers.

So hard to watch loved ones decline and struggle. We are hoping for
another year before assisted living, but she's already broken her neck
from a fall, lives alone, etc. 

Take care of yourself, sounds like assisted living is indeed the
best/safest right now. 

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