Updates thru March 18th, 2013

Mom was a bit irritable tonight.  When I talked to her, she asked me if her Mom had died.  Grandma died a couple years ago and I told her.  She asked me if she had given me money. "No Momma."  She went on to grumble about money, and how she didn't have anything, and she didn't know how she was going to pay all of her bills.  I tried to explain to her to not worry about it.  Sh that e then proceeded to tell me that "They had told her that she definitely had cancer."   I asked her who had told her, but she never would tell me.  The only thing I can think of is that she remembered where we had told her about Leila died of her cancer.

Yesterday, at Lydia's birthday party, Mom had a very had time even fixing herself a hot dog.  She got really irritated when someone tried to help her clean things up.  Dad told me today that when they were leaving church yesterday (evening?)  and it was like she had forgotten how to walk.  Mom is getting worse so quickly.  It's really scary.

March 12, 2013

First some updates, my husband's mom passed away on Thursday, and I haven't had the time or energy to do much here.  My Mom was pretty good up until the day of my Mother in law's funeral.  She and my Dad were going to go to the funeral, and she refused to get ready.  She said that "those people" had promised they would do this or that, and she was going to hold them to those promises.   Dad had pretty much given up on going, when all of a sudden, she said, "Joe, let's go!  We're going to be late!" and she let Dad help her get ready and they came in time for the family thing they had afterwards.   They didn't stay long, but they did get to meet some friends and family that they hadn't gotten to meet yet.

Today, Mom was having a major blowup.  She said that "George" had told her that Keith had signed a paper stating that he would buy "George" a house.  And that Daddy and my Uncle had went behind her back and borrowed $3000 - 3800 for it, and they couldn't afford the payment, etc.  She was VERY agitated  and nothing Dad could do would calm her down.  She finally started calming down after a couple hours.  I hope he was able to get her to take her meds.  I really don't see how Dad can put up with this.  I also don't think she recognized who I was when I talked to her on the phone.  Another step away...

I'm afraid that with her heart, she's going to work herself into a frenzy one of these days and she's going to give herself a heart attack.   These episodes are beginning to really get to my Dad.  He's even beginning to admit that she's starting to get more than he can handle.

Over the Weekend...

Mom was OK this weekend.   Phillip's mom is about to pass away, so I didn't spend as much time as usual. I stopped by for a minute, yesterday, and every time she heard a sound, she was going to the door to let "them people" in.    Other than her normal things, like Dad and Joe and seeing people, she had an OK weekend.  She got really mad at Daddy Sunday morning he said, but she calmed down in time for them to go to church.  

February 28th, 2013

Wednesday night, the kids and I went to visit Leila at the Hospice home in Dobson.  On our way back, we stopped by Mom and Dad's really quickly, and other than fairly minor stuff (Dad/Joe thing) she seemed to be doing well.  

Thursday, they stopped at the house for a few, because they got a thing in the mail that looked like a check, and Dad wanted to know if he could cash it.  I told him no, because it was just a thing where the "check" was a coupon for $$$ off of a yearly membership to a new health club opening in Dobson.   I looked at a couple other things he had, and they left.  That evening when they called, Mom seemed to be doing OK, other than the other people in the house, and she was fussing because she said Daddy never lets her do anything, but that's because he's tired of having to do everything over once she tries and then REALLY messes things up.  I feel so for my Dad.  He's such a loving man.   I know that soon I need to get with the rest of my family and talk about starting to look at homes.  She's slowly becoming more than my Dad can handle, but he doesn't want to admit it.  It cheered them up immensely when they talked to the kids.