Under Where?
As I’ve shared, frequent updates from mom’s community have been incoming over the last couple of months. The last 10-days have been no exception. Cheryle, one of the nurses, wrote in response to my query about why mom’s underwear hadn’t been replaced with Depends briefs. She didn’t actually answer the question (a fast way to […]
Toe Nail Fail
Well, not exactly a fail, but the rhyme is irresistible. I got to mom’s community and practically bumped into the HSD. I gave him the paperwork for the visiting podiatrist. He asked how the pedicure went. I explained I’d just arrived and was headed to mom’s apartment next. He shared that mom’s toe nails were […]
And in Other House News…
Late last month Jerry, our local Fire Marshal, emailed to tell me there were ongoing complaints re the mainland house. My visceral response is not printable, even on my own blog. I assured Jerry that my tenant was not building cabinets at the house, nor applying finish on said cabinets. My tenant, copied on Jerry’s […]
Control Freak
In the absence of any control over my mom’s, seemingly, precipitous decline, I spent hours this weekend gutting our atrium. It’s a space the previous owner slapped on the side of the house, in part to house the furnace that heats the big addition he also built. The notion of changing the space came about […]
Incontinence II
The HSD asked me to bring a case of Depends for mom, and explained that care staff were trying to gain mom’s consensus about wearing the briefs. If they caught her as she was getting up, they had luck. If not, getting her to switch into them was not easy. I suggested removing her underwear […]
Showers & Toe Nails
Mom has reluctantly allowed care staff to help her with two showers now. I am thankful for staff’s gentle persistence with this. While I don’t think mom knows any longer that she’s not showering independently, there’s a dignity aspect about it that would be important to her if she did know, and that’s important to […]
Culvert Update
The Amazing Neighbor called me this morning after taking a look at my very own flood. There is very good news. A spring has sprung up through the east driveway and has eroded two to three inches of one side of the ruts (from use) in the drive. This is happening about 100′ from the […]
Blocked Culvert
I just got email from an Island neighbor letting me know the culvert under the upper end of mom’s driveway is blocked up, and water is running down the road… A long, long way. I’ve called our Amazing Neighbor, who will check on things in the morning, and now must suspend concern that her property […]
Incontinence
Mom’s community’s HSD called me late this afternoon to ‘update’ me on my mom. She was discovered to have had an episode of urine incontinence in the living room, by staff, as she headed toward the dining room. She was stopped, and the HSD came to talk to her. Her response to having pointed out […]
Mom’s Other Doc Weighs In
Mom’s psychiatric nurse practitioner wrote to me this morning, with apologies, in reply to a note I wrote to him in early December about our observations about mom’s hygiene. I think your mom is more confused by things such as the shower more than anything; not an anger thing or a parnaoid thing, more of […]
Dementia Dance - Travels with Mom 