No Hospice for Now. A Little Later

While having a cataract removed is not wrong with hospice it might not be paid the nurse said so we will wait until that surgery is done before she will enter hospice. So I will call them on the 17th to set up meeting them on the 18th.

I do not plan to do anything with the rotator cuff more at this time. If her regular physician wants to give her a cortisone shot so be it, if not I do not want to start all over again, if they can not help her anyway. She is out of the time frame to go back to Dr. Naylor and I do not want to start over with Allen Dr.'s.

I did not hear back today

I was too late this morning at 9A.M to send the fax before late afternoon. So that held up them being able to send them back. I did get them sent about 3 P.M. Still I did not hear back from them before calling it a day today. I need to follow up with some bill tomorrow and get back to school for the boys.

I had some picture of her grandson's running today but it is too late to figure out why I did to loose them just now. They would go better on my blog any way.

Hospice

I called Hospice in moms community today. I did not speak to the lady I had at the hospital there in May. I did try to bring the lady I talked to up to date since May just to touch base. She was ready to see if mom could come in today. She called moms doctor and he approved. So I will be getting her in soon I guess. I called moms care taker to let her know and see if we could get her a little more help. I guess this could help decrease some of mom's expenses as well, as they may pick up some of what we are privately paying for.

Cataract surgery scheduled

Mom was going to see the Dr. on September 18 but since she will have surgery on the 17 she needs to get in for a pre-op physical the week before. So I moved the Dr. appointment. While I do not know the time yet for the surgery. I do know it will be on September 17, with the dentist and the recheck on the surgery on the 18.

So things went well at the eye Dr. on Friday.

However, I am not sure about Auxi Health. They are telling moms care taker she should be in a nursing home. We both know she would not do well there. Mom has improved beyond what the hospital and nursing home believed possible being with her care taker. I am sure her care taker will tell me if she cannot handle mom. Mom is talking more again, since getting out of the nursing home. Walking more all the time. Her eating habits would offend her if she thought about it as she would rather use her fingers than her silverware. Yet she is feeding herself.

I need to call a few places for mom on Monday to find out what is up.

Eye Dr.

Eye Dr. in the morning.

Chairs and Hot Tub

We will get the hot tub drained on Friday. We just need to call Custom Pools and they will tell us how to do it.

As for getting mom a Geriatric Chair things are sort of on hold. I called Allen Medical Equipment. They do not have them. So I called Mom's insurance company. They said there are too many. Next I called the Auxi Health and the nurse is out for the day. So I am waiting to hear back from the nurse at Auxi, about what model and if we need a Dr.'s prescription or not, then I need to see if we need to exchange her wheelchair or not for the Geriatric Chair.

That's all for today folks.

Eye Dr. coming up

Eye Dr. appointment on Friday. I'll need to be on the road at 7:30 A.M. to have her there on time. I think they will schedule her other cataract surgery. Or at least that is what I am hoping for.

Were were going to go mow moms lawn again today but the rain was coming down good here. So we stayed put. We were told her yard needs it again. By the time I got a call that it had stopped there an hour ago, we figured by the time we finished what we were in the middle of, and got there there would not be enough day light or window of opportunity. We should be able to get it done while I take her to the Dr. This might be the last time that works out though, I hope not.

Backing to Tuesday August 7, 2007

Mom had a Dr.s appointment at 10:50 A.M. We got there right on time. While waiting in the waiting room mom was very active chattering and moving her wheel chair. She tried to leave the waiting room when I was checking her in. I was trying to keep her calm while waiting when she just stopped talking and moving. She froze with her head off to the side. She did not responded when I talked to her a couple of times. The other people in the waiting room did respond and I asked the checking people for help. I could not tell if she was breathing or not, she was frozen. I was afraid she was having another stroke. The doctors shuffled her back and sent her down to the Emergency Room for the next 4 hours. They could not find anything wrong. So they sent her home. =-) Her care taker had said that has happened a few times on her, and it scared her the first time it happened.

Mean while back a the ranch, my center three sons were over at her house mowing the lawn. Most of the rest of the week was filled with college visits, which is why I did not have time to update sooner. =-)

We had a scare today

We had a scare today Tuesday, I will have to post more about it later though.

Found Side Rail & A Problem

We walked in the door to the house at least 3 of the four sons I brought along to help look headed down the steps. I had said many times. We had looked where the bed was and could not find the other side rail but I would look there again or near dad's wheel chair in the closet. So one of the sons who had run down stairs came up and announced He had found the missing side rail. All would have been wonderful we could have turned around and left only the refrigerator was blowing hot air. There was very little in it but what was in was melted moldy smelly ice cream. So we took enough time to clean that out. Unplug it and leave the doors open before we left.

Now I have to decide if we should call a repair person or just do with out. It is not that old, but since I had a 6 year old refrigerator have the compressor go out before, I an guessing that is the problem here. I do not like making decisions like this.

Mom did not throw us out for once. She was eating lunch. Usually she tells the boys they must leave as soon as they walk in. Not today. We did not stay long as I did not want to run late for our mid week Bible Study at church. All in all a quick trip.