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Cwillie, so did I. But I never knew it can last more than a day. So I was still trying to figure out the drastic change when I read the change in her room. Quiet {{{{Hugs}}}}
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🌹hugs CWillie, for you and your Mom.
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CW, I am so sorry, mom's chattiness, what I thought it might be too.
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((Hugs)), Cwillie.
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Got a phone call around 3:00 a.m. - mom has been moved to the palliative suite. Seems all that talking was exactly what I feared.
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cw -hope your mum's O2 is back where it should be soon,

myownlife - look after yourself -I agree about the next ten years.

pamz -have a good trip Hope you can relax.
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Hubs and I are taking a 3 day road trip with mom tomorrow to see the fall colors in WV and take train ride.etc.. It is to make up to her for not being able to go to the beach this year because she wanted to go to Aunts while some relatives were there. So I am hoping for a relaxing few days.. and he is on this like a drill sergent! We have the train booked for Wed.. no real plans for tomorrow except to get there.. I worked, and I want to do a few things in the morning, First he said we need to leave by 9.. now it's 8 because we have to drop off the dog.. I'm already stressed! Pray for me that I keep my sanity,,
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Hi cwillie, thank you... BUT, mom thinks she is fine and when she snaps and says something and I respond, she always now and all my 60+ years of life, acts as if it's my fault. Ya know, they say you marry the man like your father, but in my case, I see so many similarities between my husband (passed away) a long time ago and my mother. Yet he was my soulmate, but he never once would ever apologize, and the same with my mother. She is narcissistic and sooo envious of everything about me, and I just do not care. I have always been known for being flexible and calm at work..... little do they know, I am one of those that could truly focus and get the job done and ignore all the bad stuff, but now, with my mother here in this house with me, I am just about fed up with it, and if she wants to go back to her home 2 1/2 hours away, so be it. We shall see. I am very angry tonight and am going to put my earphones in and listen to a Netflix movie. She had me take her back to the dr last week to return the hearing aids, because they bothered her (so tiny, and I tried to reason that it's no different than needing glasses) but she doesn't care if it takes yelling or usually the. case is that she doesn't hear what's said (unless we whisper) and then gets mad easily ... I am one of those that I am NOT going to spend the next 10 years of my life like this. She is one of those very young 93 yr. olds and has always been used to having her way. But my husband died when I was 44 (he was 49) and I have had to be on my own.... now she needs to interfere with everything and be a "part" of every little piece of my life. sorry,, gonna go now and watch that Netflix movie :). I'll get a good night sleep and be fine tomorrow :)
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The RN checked mom's pulse ox while I was there - well, that explains the "agitation", if that's what all this talking is about😕. She gave mom a ventolin treatment, tested again and then urged her to cough and take deep breaths and said she'd take another reading after supper.
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cw - so glad for both of you.
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Brilliant, CW!

I know it must still feel like "what is WRONG with you?!" but what can you do but be pleased for her?
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The miracle continues, today mom reported that she had porridge for breakfast. And an egg. She also agreed she had orange juice when I asked. It's like something has hit the on switch that so mysteriously was turned off years ago. But the voice and body are rusty and worn from the years of disuse.
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Hi Myownlife, I don't know your story or why you have chosen to move your mother in with you - your profile says she has general age related decline? Since she sounds mostly capable perhaps a nice IL apartment in your neighbourhood would be a better compromise. Or if she did return to her house what kind of difficulties do you foresee?
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Hugs, CW.
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Cwillie
i hope you're sound asleep and glad to hear mom had an active day

when they have a good day, always makes me wonder how badly they feel the rest if the time
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So here's my whine of the day.... I'm sitting for hours in the living room working on the computer for work to catch up. It was easy work that I could do with the television on, so turned a good movie on Netflix and Mom enjoyed it, too.

Then she went out of the room to do a couple of errands and came back and we were watching more TV while I'm working.... and then, all of a sudden,
there she goes again trying to "pick a fight".

What is it now, Mom?! Well I've been trying to talk to you all day (it's 6pm by the way), so I said, well I've been here, what do you want to talk about? Well do you have work tomorrow? (UH, It's Monday, of course I have work!). Well could you drop me off at the grocery store tomorrow...... and there are papers in my wallet and purse I wanted to go over with you, etc., etc.

Mom, it's the end of the day, could you not have said something this morning? Well I was waiting till you finished .... and then things further deteriorated into, well I want to go back to my home. (it's the home 2 1/2 hrs away, that is sitting empty because she won't sell it, doesn't want to rent it, and I have told her repeatedly that she has no friends, no neighbors, no support system there and I have a full-time job that I cannot be driving over there when she would need something.
So, she goes off in a huff to her room, meanwhile, I'm stewing while still working trying my best to let it go, but chest tighter and tighter from anxiety. Lo and behold she comes out an hour or so later, all smiling and saying well, I voted (absentee), and lay the envelope on the table, and acting like nothing was wrong.

I can't take 10 more years of this... it's the same stirring up trouble like she did with dad, and I am so over it.
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OK this is weird - mom is alert and TALKING, not necessarily making sense but talking! PSW stopped me in the hall to tell me that she was "talking up a storm" and wanted her seat belt off. I get in her room and she's asking for her glasses (she quit wearing them years ago) because she needed them to drive the girl to school - I'm figuring seat belt = driving, makes sense, right? But who is going to school? "The girl. The nurse." Well, maybe they were talking about their kids going to school, who knows? She spoke randomly right until I came home after supper, she was even trying to find her utensils and drinks on the dinner table to eat when she normally barely moves at all. My sister will never believe me!
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Thanks Frazzled. Sis and I were talking about funeral plans and here she is bouncing back again, maybe a little lower and slower but bouncing none the less - I never would have believed my mom had anything left.
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CWillie, I'm glad your mom is doing a little better and was able to eat. Good that the antibiotic is working.
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Mom seems to be doing better, she still has a tight sounding cough but the horrible gurgling has gone - I'm starting to wonder if she hasn't caught something that is going around. Anyway the antibiotic seems to be working, she was able to eat most of her lunch today.
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Boring books serve a purpose that way, I never thought about it like that. 😆

Edit: Geez, as I commented, I realize I must be reading back a page or two and I'm commenting on things from few days ago.

I might be awake but the brain isn't fully up and running just yet.

Madge, I didn't get one single mosquito bite all this summer. It was relatively dry with only an occasional rain day, though. Maybe the lack of water puddles kept mosquito count down.
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I don't know how I feel about Hotel California's Windows being nailed shut! This bugs me. Also the nebulizer....That's like my Mom's pacemaker monitor. Each time I go to the Memory Care it is unplugged. #&$!😳
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Hoca doesn't have central a/c in the rooms and even though she's in the new part of the building the wall units seldom work well - those oblong white things attached to wall above the window

they're controlled by a remote so naturally most of those have disappeared but since mom is the original occupant we've protected the remote pretty well so all anyone would have had to do is press off

i keep a small fan in the room for extra circulation
if needed since they nailed the windows shut
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Cwillie
i hate the choking coughing can't breathe episodes

can you make a thermos of hot water lemon and honey and a couple of spoons that whiskey and take to mom ?

i heat up her rice pack and lay across her chest too when she's a bit congested
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CWillie,
Doc said my lungs were clear when years ago it turned out I had pneumonia!
Can you put the breathing treatment back at bedside?

I know things are not working out, but there is supposed to be a chart/medical record that staff must chart treatments and meds.

Hope you are okay.👩
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You asked about mom's breathing treatments and got me stewing about that again

- as far as I know she has had one dose of the ventolin, that happened when she was having one of her choking coughing can't catch her breath looks absolutely miserable days and I went to the nurse to see what we could do to help her. The nebulizer sat at her bedside after that but I got wise and moved it to a table in the far corner of the room so I could tell if it had been used and it has sat there ever since. When I've asked if she needed another treatment I'm always told her lungs sound clear but they can give it to her if I want them to. Uh, you are the medical professionals not me, either she needs it and it is helpful or it isn't, in which case why was it ever prescribed?
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Madge is the thermostat under a lock out box? Another resident may have wandered in and turned it down? My grandma was moved to a facility when she kept turning up the thermostat full blast in the summer. Fiddling with the thermostat is common among the elderly. Yes, it should have been turned up when discovered in the morning, absolutely.
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I can't understand why the thermostat would ever be set so low in a seniors residence MsM - most of out people wear sweaters all summer! And could they not have provided one or two of their own blankets instead?😒 I think you should start compiling video evidence of the crazy conditions there and publish a video exposé.
The temperatures here have been bouncing between hot and cold and the nursing home is having some trouble figuring out the switch between heating and a/c, some days they have both running at the same time and windows open to boot.

Sue, at least you won't be fighting snowstorms on your commute! It looks like your retirement plans are working out for you, are you Xing off the days?
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Heard from mom’s caregiver that someone turned the a/c on 63 overnight and the room was freezing this morning

the Viking is very sensitive to drafts and the damn thing blows right on her so I’ve told them not to have it on when she’s in bed

so even when the morning shift arrived and noticed how cold it was they didn’t turn it off - 😲

caregiver turned it off when she arrived about 9 am

then caregiver calls after lunch saying they sprayed the room and they can’t go in

by then I’m mad - who uses pesticides in a bedroom?

spoke to nurse who didn’t know what they used and they were emptying the room to wash everything

tonight mom has no clothes and they put her comforter back on her bed still damp- grrr
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Cwillie

it’s so hard when they’re sick and you can’t make them feel better - did she ever get the breathing treatment ?

the Viking has had tamiflu twice but Everyone has been sick at hoca lately with some sent to hospital with pneumonia

hope you can sleep tonight
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