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We're very close to dealing with this situation right now.
For those of you who have met or heard about my grandmother, you need no explanation. But for those that haven't... you DO NOT tell my grandmother what she's going to do or not do. You just DON'T. And yet in the past couple months she's gotten... VERY ill. Repeatedly. She keeps getting infections. She's just too old, too weak, and takes such poor care of herself. She doesn't eat properly, she doesn't always remember to take her medicine - there was an incident where she took the wrong medicines repeatedly because her understanding of human health has ALWAYS been very limited. She felt that she had a "sinus problem", so she took "sinus medicine" - which was leftover antibiotics from LAST winter's sinus infection (yeah she never finished it last year) which did NOTHING to unclog her sinuses. Then when that ran out, the sinuses DID get infected, at which point she went to the drugstore and asked for "sinus medicine" and was given sudafed, which did nothing because she had an INFECTION, which at this point was resistant to amoxycillin...
The story is longer, but repeat this cycle a few times, and you'll understand how in the past two/three months she has gotten: cellulitis, ear infections, eye infections, sinus infections (yes all MULTIPLE), and can hardly get around.
I'm her only family in the area - everyone else has moved away, and soon Julie and I will move too. She is FINALLY realizing for herself that she needs to live closer to one of her daughters. This will most likely be my mom, in Florida. But Grandma JUST bought a new condo... *sigh*
So I REALLY feel for you Liz, it's a TOUGH situation. My mom will go INSANE if they keep grandma with them more than a short time, so they're either going to have to put her in one of those "apartment complexes for old people", with the pull-chains for assistance and the rec hall where there's always someone to keep her company... or if things get worse a nursing home. She'll be upset with either one, she has ALWAYS owned her own house, for the past 60 years. *sigh*
For those of you who have met or heard about my grandmother, you need no explanation. But for those that haven't... you DO NOT tell my grandmother what she's going to do or not do. You just DON'T. And yet in the past couple months she's gotten... VERY ill. Repeatedly. She keeps getting infections. She's just too old, too weak, and takes such poor care of herself. She doesn't eat properly, she doesn't always remember to take her medicine - there was an incident where she took the wrong medicines repeatedly because her understanding of human health has ALWAYS been very limited. She felt that she had a "sinus problem", so she took "sinus medicine" - which was leftover antibiotics from LAST winter's sinus infection (yeah she never finished it last year) which did NOTHING to unclog her sinuses. Then when that ran out, the sinuses DID get infected, at which point she went to the drugstore and asked for "sinus medicine" and was given sudafed, which did nothing because she had an INFECTION, which at this point was resistant to amoxycillin...
The story is longer, but repeat this cycle a few times, and you'll understand how in the past two/three months she has gotten: cellulitis, ear infections, eye infections, sinus infections (yes all MULTIPLE), and can hardly get around.
I'm her only family in the area - everyone else has moved away, and soon Julie and I will move too. She is FINALLY realizing for herself that she needs to live closer to one of her daughters. This will most likely be my mom, in Florida. But Grandma JUST bought a new condo... *sigh*
So I REALLY feel for you Liz, it's a TOUGH situation. My mom will go INSANE if they keep grandma with them more than a short time, so they're either going to have to put her in one of those "apartment complexes for old people", with the pull-chains for assistance and the rec hall where there's always someone to keep her company... or if things get worse a nursing home. She'll be upset with either one, she has ALWAYS owned her own house, for the past 60 years. *sigh*
) and My mom wants to put her in some kind of nursing home.
) every week.
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