Peggy,

I'm glad to hear you found a place for your Mom and it sounds like she will
accept the change okay. I'm praying for her, and for your Aunt as well, and
for everyone involved.

Love and Blessings,
Pat Ferguson



At 12:22 AM 3/11/04, you wrote:
>Hi, all.  Sorry for the cross post.  Just thought I'd fill you in on the
>latest with Mom.
>
>She doesn't have a fever, but is wheezing really bad, and has to have
>breathing treatments every four hours.  My sister-in-law said she looked
>really tired today.  I imagine she would be tired if they're waking her up
>every four hours!  <grin>  On the bright side, my brother and sister-in-law
>found a place for her.  The place we'd hoped to get because it's close to
>all of us got filled already, but the caseworker took my sister-in-law to
>see it anyway, and she didn't like it at all.  It smelled of urine and was
>very run-down.  The place they finally found is very near my brother and
>sister-in-law, though quite a ways from us.  It's apparently very beautiful
>and very secure.  It's owned by a nurse, and she has a couple living there
>and caring for the six people, all with dementia, who live there.  I don't
>know when I'll get to see it, but I'm hoping it'll be this weekend
>sometime.  We don't know when Mom will be released from the hospital, but
>the nurse-owner came to visit her and meet her, and brought her some
>flowers and asked her if she had a green thumb and if she'd like to help
>her with her garden.  Mom was apparently really excited.
>
>I talked to my aunt tonight, and she sounded pretty lonely, now that Mom's
>not there.  But her daughter-in-law is flying down tomorrow and will stay
>for the weekend and help her with the transition.  It looks like she'll be
>staying in the apartment, which I think will be best, since she knows
>everyone in the complex and can walk to the store.  So things are moving
>along.  Now we just have to pray that Mom will be well enough soon to move
>into the new place.
>
>Peggy
>
>
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