January 14, 2017
This is actually post #2. #1 is on my laptop, which is not connected to the wifi at mom’s Island house. At this juncture I am thrilled to have my online email interface reestablished (who needs it with a smart phone in your pocket… Until you’re in a location with .1% service.). I’ll try the […]
Accident # 2…
Mom ran the rental car down a steep embankment at about 4pm heading home from town. She told the staff at the ER she fell asleep. Tim and Cindy told me she fell asleep 5 or 6 times this afternoon at coffee. An ER doctor, who happened to witness the accident, said mom appreared to […]
Family History
We’re making a stir fry for dinner tonight using riced cauliflower for the first time. I set a bowl from my childhood on a simmer plate over a small BTU burner, set on low, on our gas stove so we’d have a vessel to keep things warm in as they came off the wok. My […]
Accident 7 ~ Anxiety Attack
First, my apologies to those I should be telling this to in person. While in a deep uncomfortable dream state, at three this morning, I realized my respiration was too fast. I woke enough to make a run to the loo, and found myself shaking. The house was not correspondingly cold enough to explain the […]
Accident 6 ~ Rental Procurrment
Mom passed the test my classmate, Wanda, put her through. The rental car is worth about $3000.00, and will not make its owner weep if it gets totaled. Wanda shared that she challenged mom (by phone) with, “Now, sometimes people your age have diagnoses of dementia or Alzheimer’s, and I can’t rent to anyone with […]
Accident 5 ~ Misc and Car Rental
I talked to mom last night. Among other things, she thinks: * The residual on the car will be about $12,000.00. It pegs out somewhere between $3-5,000.00 less her deducable. * The car wasn’t in too bad of shape before the accident. * The Honda has Dixie Cup construction. […]
Accident 4 ~ Letter to the neighbors
Dear Friends and Neighbors of my Mama, You all know by now that my mom wiped out the mail boxes late afternoon on New Years Day. Insurance has been exercised, both for the property damage to the mail boxes (my understanding is they will be repaired on Thursday) and the car, whose fate we are […]
Accident 3
Today, both the first business day of the year, and first business day post Mailbox Mayhem, has been busy. In the last 24 hours I have spoken/corresponded with: Three of mom’s neighbors multiple times, One of mom’s friends, Her insurance agent multiple times, Her insurance adjuster multiple times, The Island’s only rental car business, owned […]
Accident 2
*Deputy’s Rendition: Mom did indeed hit the mailboxes head on. The deputy had to collect mail that was all over the road and return it to the post office. He could see that mom was cognitively impaired and will send the driver re-evaluation form into the state, filling out the half of the […]
Accident…
I got a call from one of mom’s amazing neighbors telling me mom ‘took out the mailboxes’ in the twilight. Mom is OK. * Neighbor’s rendition: The car is probably totaled, all the mailboxes (about two dozen) are down, mom is ok, he needed mom’s insurance info to give to the deputy, […]
Dementia Dance - Travels with Mom 