Hello, lovely LJ friends,

I wrote in my previous post that I have been blogging regularly on my own website. Against any likelihood suggested by my own past history with blogging anywhere other than LJ, this remains true, three months later. I have succeeded in writing at least one essay of some variety per week at blog.jmac.org, even if I don't ( Read more... )

Hello friends,

While I feel an inevitability in my continuing to use this LJ for one thing or another -- there certainly does seem to be a theme to my handful of posts over the last couple of years -- I would like to invite y'all to follow me at my blog on my home domainI began writing there again a couple of years ago, but only started updating ( Read more... )

Peter got his apartment, in part because I co-signed the lease. I may not have realized exactly what I was getting into. I have a better idea now. Even so, I'm not sure I would have made any other decision; it was that or the homeless shelter, for him. We found a perfectly good little place on Craigslist. I liked the landlord ( Read more... )

Hi Jon ( Read more... )

If I may summarize the last eight months or so, as regards my mother ( Read more... )

Following from the last post in this thread…Mom still lives at Winterberry. As a stopgap measure I've hired an in-home care service to spend a few hours with her every day. I started this immediately after the previous post, and Winterberry took pains to let me know how this turned her mood around immediately. We started with 12 hours a day, which ( Read more... )

I got the official call from Winterberry Heights that they can no longer handle mom this morning. Unlike Sunbury, they're being very professional in their language choice about recent incidents, but her "elopement" attempts -- scooting out the door and down the street at every opportunity -- are unceasing, even with new medication, and she's now ( Read more... )

I got the official call from Sunbury Village that they could no longer handle mom on Tuesday morning; the word "ridiculous" was deployed on their end to describe her shenanigans, which had gotten to the point of other dementia-afflicted residents calling the office to say that the lady from 335 was in their kitchen again. I remote-directed Ricky ( Read more... )

Mom's taken her Ambien two nights in a row, so that's two quiet nights. Well, we can't have that, can we! So she's switched tactics to decide that I'm stealing all her money and spending it on myself (how else could I have afforded a trip to Austin?) and is now bothering the Sunbury staff with demands that they cancel her lease so that she can move ( Read more... )

There's no other way to put it: Mother is actively sabotaging all my attempts to help her. After two days of effort I got her checked back into Sunbury with an Ambien prescription that would get her through her nighttime confusion, glued to my phone as I coordinated nurse, doctor, brother, caretaker and building manager to set everything up. Total ( Read more... )