PRAYERS PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Will do Judy...try and unwind some as elderly parents cause us more and more stress as their health and mobility deteriorates.
Both my parents are deceased and I have no brothers and sisters......at times I am so happy I am alone and no longer responsible for an aging parent like I was....the dynamics of the relationship changes, you become the parent and parent becomes the child ( even though I was always treated like a 13 year-old nincompoop, even when making life altering decisions , and derisively called YES DOCTOR!when told my widowed Dad he needed this or the other to make life easier and not to eat grapefruit or drink grapefuit juice with the load of 15 or so pills he took at breakfast ( one after the other, he never knew exactly what they were for, just that he took a large white, yellow oval, blue house shaped, green round, etc etc you get the picture. One after the other, first with his glass of milk, then remainder with grapefruit juice, then what was left of the mound of pills with coffee..Am sure he should have spaced out, and when I asked why you taking this pill? "Coz Doctor told me to" and he knew nothing about possible side effects.
So glad I am done with all the worrying, the times he fell and didn't pick up phone and I drove 2 hours at night in snow, rain and freezing sleet to find him on the floor after a mini stroke, happy to see me and saying " I knew you'd come", then the fight to call the ambulance and get him to hospital....stubborn old coot! When I called 911 to ask for an ambulance they thought there was a "domestic" going on from Dad yelling in background he didn't want ambulance and he forbade me to call, so would send police and ambulance.
I feel for your worries, be thankfull you don't have immediate direct responsibility and are sufficiently far away that another sister is taking care, and you fret by the phone. Stressful anyway, wishing you and your Mom the best.
Hugs
jennifer
