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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Edwarda who wrote (59471)10/20/1999 6:36:00 PM
From: Ish  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
<<It takes two strong people a lot of agility and strategizing merely to get him out of the wheelchair and into the bathroom! And he signed himself out yet again.>>

Been there and it's no fun. My parents were 42 when I was born the only child. 19 and 83 my father died Dec. 9. I stayed at my mother's for a week and she told me to leave. I went back the next day to find her in the hall on the floor. She had congestive heart disease and severe hardening of the arteries and had decided it was time to have a stroke. She didn't have a stroke but showed the signs. She became a complete invalid. Odd word invalid, means sick and also void, I guess that's why I always keep a gun handy so as not to be void. I digress.

I called an ambulance and had her taken to the hospital. On Christmas Eve I was told I had two days to find her a nursing home or take her home. Like I was going to learn how to put a catherter in my own mother. A little decorum needed here.

I found her a nice nursing home and she was as happy as a tick in a sow's ear for the three months until she died. Relatives ( who didn't do jack shit) were miffed as it was 30 miles away in her home town.

Odder yet, she had a sensitive plant for 15 years that had never bloomed. I had taken it home and put it in the master bathroom. When the call came in at 1 am that she had died my wife went to the bathroom. She yelled as the plant had bloomed. It was dead the next morning. Spooky, eh?
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