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Good family news
Feb. 8th, 2010 08:34 pmMy morning started with a phone call from a vendor I thought would be an in-home hospice caregiver, and turned out to be an in-home assisted living caregiver. Not a bad thing to know. I switched that name from Mom's list to Dad's list. This could be useful information later on, especially if there is a lag between Mom's death and when we move Dad into someplace new.
We gave brother-in-law D a lift back to the airport this afternoon. His weekend trying to get a handle on the family paperwork was extremely productive, he says. He now knows that there is a LOT he does not know. And that he is VERY happy to start doing this now, when they are still around to answer his questions.
D updated us on how Mom's visit to the doctor went this morning. Evidently the doctors did not take the moving-into-the-bone as a drastically bad turn. Considering her other numbers (blood oxygen level, specifically), they gave her a year to live and said she could switch to using the oxygen when she feels like it. They recommended any activity that might make her pant would be a good idea to use oxygen, but she probably won't need it when she is just sitting. Yay! All good! Now, we don't know when the year-to-live starts, but even worst case that gives her until about August.
So now we are planning Mom's 70th birthday party and a proposed visit from her sister and a niece (which, if you are following the relationships and give a flying patootie, would be T's aunt and 1st cousin). I have scheduled another living facility tour for next weekend. I hope to have a comparison list of Dad's proposed living facilities for D to review fully by next week.
We gave brother-in-law D a lift back to the airport this afternoon. His weekend trying to get a handle on the family paperwork was extremely productive, he says. He now knows that there is a LOT he does not know. And that he is VERY happy to start doing this now, when they are still around to answer his questions.
D updated us on how Mom's visit to the doctor went this morning. Evidently the doctors did not take the moving-into-the-bone as a drastically bad turn. Considering her other numbers (blood oxygen level, specifically), they gave her a year to live and said she could switch to using the oxygen when she feels like it. They recommended any activity that might make her pant would be a good idea to use oxygen, but she probably won't need it when she is just sitting. Yay! All good! Now, we don't know when the year-to-live starts, but even worst case that gives her until about August.
So now we are planning Mom's 70th birthday party and a proposed visit from her sister and a niece (which, if you are following the relationships and give a flying patootie, would be T's aunt and 1st cousin). I have scheduled another living facility tour for next weekend. I hope to have a comparison list of Dad's proposed living facilities for D to review fully by next week.
