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Worried, I don't know why you find the parking situation funny either - but I'm sure I wouldn't, and honestly, I beg you - TALK to them before things get out of hand. Disputes between neighbours can turn very very bad indeed, and parking-related territorial issues are prime fuel for it.

There is actually ample room for everybody's car if everybody is sensible about it, yes?
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Neighbor parking situation took an interesting turn today. This is an observation not a complaint hehe. Sometime this morning, the next door neighbor parked directly in front of our house in hubby’s preferred spot! For context, their garage is next to our house and our front yards are not connected. They have been parking one of their 2 cars in front of our house just a couple feet from their driveway. There is enough room for 3 cars to park in front of our house. When I left to run errands this afternoon, I noted that their other car was in their driveway, along with another car and there were no cars in front of their house and there was no car where they usually park under the big tree in front of our house. When my husband got home from work, he parked behind them & had to partially block their driveway. First thing he said when he walked in the door was “what’s the neighbors deal”? I told him “I guess they don’t want you parking there anymore” hehe. It’s just kind of weird that they park in front of our house and not their own house. And today they are right in front of our house! I wonder....we have 4 cars for the 2 of us. The old neighbors across the street were annoyed by that. Maybe these guys are too? Maybe parking in front of our house and now in hubby’s spot is some sort of.....physiological warfare? I think it’s funny myself. It’s 8:40pm and their car is still in the same spot. I just noticed he parked super close to their bumper too. Wonder if he’s trying to give them a hint? I don’t know why I just find this whole thing funny!
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Same here Cwillie. None of the nursing homes around here have rooms that are like apartments. It’s more like a hospital setting. Residents are served their meals in their room, same as a hospital with the CNAs pushing large carts full of meal trays down the hall. There are dining rooms but they seem to be used for activities and socializing, not for eating meals. I think when families arrange to eat there, they eat in the dining room. The resident’s rooms don’t have kitchen, there’s really no where to put a microwave and a small fridge. Now an assisted living on the other hand, those are set up like apartments. There is a small kitchen or kitchenette. The resident doesn’t just live in a room, it’s an apartment type setting. The only transportation the nursing homes provide is medical transport to the doctor. There’s no bus to take people to the mall or anywhere else. The assisted living facilities do have small bus-type vehicles that transport people to various places.
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There's a Nursing home here in Mo. that alot of Mother's friend's were in and Mother and I sold things from the Art Museum from time to time there,so we heard and saw things that went on and saw inside the rooms. The rooms looked like little apartments and had a kitchen and living room area with a bedroom in the back.
The people staying there had a choice whether to go down to the dining room and if they chose not to,their food was delivered to their room.They also had a bus that the people could take to go shopping in or to an appointment,where they would be dropped off and then picked up and returned to their "home".
I remember they had a long waiting list to get in that place too cwillie.
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CW, one of the facilities that was considered for mom was a continuum of care, owned by a religious organization. The nursing home area was brightly lit, and residents were in the community room, where meals are served, for those that are mobile. During non meal times residents gathered for tv, games and activities. It was quite nice, and Medicaid was accepted when funds were gone. The rooms were smallish, but really, how much space do they need?
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I often read comments on the forum where people mention their nursing home apartments or that their loved ones in NH refuse to go to the dining room for meals. I've never encountered a nursing home that isn't styled more like a hospital than an apartment complex, even the private rooms are hardly big enough for more than a bed, a couple of chairs and a few other bits of furniture. Room service is restricted to those who are ill, if you don't come to the dining room you don't eat.
I'm curious - are these luxury NH's common in the USA?
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Thomas, this woman relies on you keeping your mouth shut and being too afraid to report her. I wonder how many other people she's done this to?

Who else do you have any contact with?
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Thomas - You will get a lot more views if you post a new question rather than tacking on to an established thread.
My question to you is - was she a friend before she became your caregiver or did your friendship develop after? In either case there has been a betrayal of trust and it appears that you have been taken advantage of, but if your "loans" were based solely on a relationship that she encouraged after becoming your caregiver her actions have been unethical and would be grounds for dismissal in any position she hopes to achieve as a nurse. I hope you had enough sense to keep a paper trail.
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My friend got the job working as my care giver 5 years ago, being that she was my friend as well as my care giver I felt secure in making financial loans to her, now she's pushing me to move and get a different care giver, since she's graduating and getting her nurse degree, she was supposed to start repaying me after getting a new job, but there has been no discussion of this, if I bring it up, she gets in a foul mood, it's like I'm no longer a friend but just a client, I never kept track until recently and found she's been padding her time sheet for the whole time, I don't want to turn her in on the off chance that she will start to pay me back, it's into the thousands of dollars, I have to be moved before anything happens for fear of retaliation, because turning her in would ruin her chance to get a nursing license, my dilemma is I feel that I'm blackmailing her once I tell her to pay me back or else she's proven to no longer be my friend, I haven't pushed things yet because she's fostering first one then two and now three of her grandchildren, and trying to adopt them, not that it matters she's married to a woman who is 15 years younger than her who also works and should also be considered a benefactor of these loans I've made, I've paid for vehicles, veterinary bills, rent-to-own so that they kept a bed under them and to retrieve things that they had in the pawn shop before they lost them, one year it was almost $20 a week for gas and cigarettes, I'm truly at wits end, knowing I have to keep my mouth shut and wait till I'm moved, Anyone have any thoughts on this I could use some feedback
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In one of the houses behind me lives a girl who is overly loud and dramatic - since school let out for the summer her screams, shouts, tears are all incredibly loud and persist intermittently from early morning to well past dark.... until I realized it was just tween drama I almost thought there was some king of abuse going on. Now they've put in some kind of a swimming pool (there is a big hedge so I can't see exactly what). Sigh.
I never though I would ever say this, but couldn't this kid spend more time indoors?
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My mom's little brother (15 years her junior) and his wife are moving away from their home to live with my cousin and her family. Every detail I hear about this move is worse than the last, it looks like a HUGE mistake. My uncle and aunt already had their names in at a IL but cousin felt the wait was too long, OK I get that, but IMO this is not a good solution.
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CW,

Great video!
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Wow.
She walks better than I can!
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The funny thing is that half of me wanted her to succeed and the other half was thinking good grief, should she really be on the road? She is definitely a lesson in perseverance! And I loved the reactions of her husband and friends!
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Cwillie, that was delightful.  She was so upbeat.  We can do anything, I guess.
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CW, Loved that!

At 16, I flunked the driver portion twice. Third time was the charm! Great driving gloves!😁
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Aw shucks. It's a CBC mini documentary (15 minutes or so) about an 86 year old woman who never had a driver's licence and is determined to get one before she dies. It takes her 3 years and many attempts but with the encouragement of her granddaughter she does it!

Found it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlP93lQqGWo
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CW, video not available outside of Canada.

Maybe it is available on YouTube?
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I just watched this video and wanted to share

https://gem.cbc.ca/media/short-docs/season-1/episode-16/38e815a-00a97ef6f72
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CM, thx for the lovely lady remark.

I've thought this through and my response to my brother was lets just let the doctors keep providing life saving measures and when or if my brother's ribs get busted etc. and he is put on another breathing tube, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.

Other brother who has taken this all on said the doctors suggested a conference call where we could all discuss this as a family with the docs. I actually offered to be there in person. My other sibs have such oh so busy lives I guess conference call works better for them. (insert eyeroll)

CM, rehab down the road sounds wonderful, in theory. But my brother, the one who is ill, has never been cooperative as long as I can remember. My poor, poor mom. The stuff she had to deal with over the years. I imagine her heart would be breaking over this if she were alive to see it. Her last letter to us as a family she said "please look out for your brother" I know he and his mental illness was one of the biggest sadness and disappointments of her life. She dealt with it like she dealt with everything. With grace and class and above all faith. So, I guess the least we as a family can do is try to measure up and do the same.
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Gershun, you are such a lovely lady.

Stop empathising. You cannot imagine what your brother is experiencing because the inside of his head and yours are utterly different. I don't mean to suggest that he isn't suffering, but he isn't in the way that you would; and besides you can't deal with it. It doesn't *help*.

To make this decision ethically you have to detach. That is not the same thing as saying "oh well let him kill himself." You need to step back so that you can look at the whole picture; and actually that may change everybody's thinking.

You want some flow diagrams. We start here. If we do this, then X. If we do that, then Y. Keep plotting the outcomes it's reasonable to expect from given courses of action, and see where it takes you.

The point is that this isn't just about this week or next month. Supposing it were possible to stabilise your brother and give him a realistic chance to engage in rehab. Where might he be at the end of the year, next year, five years from now?

Still in residential care, still with a feeding tube, still desperately hunting food and drugs and any kind of gratification to replace what he's missing - forget it. You wouldn't do it to a dog. Let him exercise the autonomy he still has left to him.

But... what about, physically improving and with some kind of life yet to lead? In that case, it would be worth taking away his autonomy for now, in order to get him on the right track to make that possible.

Big piece of paper, coloured pencils, open minds, and everyone get busy. Even if it doesn't bring the family to one united conclusion, at least it will help you put all the issues on the table where they can't be dismissed.
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Gershun,
God is able and His will will be done as it is in Heaven so shall it be on earth.

Hugs!!
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Hugs, Gershun. I'm praying for you, your brother and family. God IS able.
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Gershun- Big Hug.
God is able. And he will do as He sees best for your brother. Believe it.
Will be praying.
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Let's all us Christians on here believe together that God is able and he will do the right thing re: my brother.

God is able.

Thank-you God!
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Gershun....I'm so sorry that you and your family are going through this with your brother.I know you all love him so very much and only want to help him in any way you can.
The body is amazing,the way it heals itself everyday, even in the sickest patients & even when the odds are impossible though because
my Mother survived Hospice,her doctor's prognosis and all the times everyone gave up hope for her....
It was God's plan & He's amazing and there's no challenges too great for Him.
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I got ya Send. 🙂
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Gershon, I am so sorry about your brother’s health situation. The decisions the family are having to make are so difficult. I don’t know what I would do in that situations action.
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Lizzywho,
Hoping that I was not misunderstood in my post requiring the hospital to provide good care.

Hospitals and doctors have "standard protocols" of care. For example, it might be protocol to transfer a patient to rehab at a certain time. It is what is always done, and the care can be good, and covered by insurance.

But what I wanted to point out, some patients will not be served well to be transferred, or decisions made prematurely about a patient.

For example, in the patient's case I knew about, it was time to transfer to rehab, but he was not medically ready. He also ran a fever, pointing that out, he should not be discharged with a fever, so the hospital, at the level of care in ICU was required to keep him, and under the scrutiny of a higher level of care, for a longer time. This bought some time. Time to heal better, time to defy the doctor's poor prognosis, time to think up and offer some better solutions, instead of giving up when the patient was out of options.

To understand and experience this, it is a hopeful tack, but it is not denial of the realities a patient may be out of any good options. TIME can and does change poor prognosis is what I am saying here, when more options become available.

Anything can happen.

And you are right Lizzywho, in everything that you said. I just wanted to clarify and be sure it was not intended that staff was wrong, it is just the better options have not yet presented themselves. = TIME.
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Thank-you Send and Lizzy too.
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