Morning word: Adult Protective Services in Tucson spent two hours talking to Helen, then upset my sister in Los Angeles by calling about all the same bullshit: Helen told them she has five kids, but no one will help her. No one will help her? Oh, please. I expect they’ll be calling me too. The [...]
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When last I typed that title, I told how I’d decided to let Helen do whatever she wanted…
The old woman wouldn’t budge and wasn’t so far gone she couldn’t fool a social worker. Never mind “the voices” and losing $2,500 in cash. Never mind paying too much for an awful trailer she didn’t need with [...]
Now there’s a title you don’t see every day, and the guys who made it possible aren’t everyday fellows, either.
How it turned out that in my advanced decreptitude I’ve finally found friends who not only share many of my own predilections and cultural underpinnings but also take care of each other is mildly astounding to [...]
I think it’s always been there, though rarely mentioned, this cold, black thing that kills all love and joy. Always! Though in my memory the first remembered taste of it came in Abilene, Texas when I was barely 13 years old.
This would be during the early years of rock & roll, 1958, when Buddy Holly [...]
Who did this, and how did this happen?
The dynamic is this: Helen is too sick to realize she can’t take care of herself and refuses to go to a nursing home — in this circumstance, however, every authority supports her instead of me. it’s as if you take your dearest loved one bleeding to a [...]
I’ve just discovered this new video, which I am told is “going viral.” I hope so, because it’s affected me quite strongly this morning. I hope you like it and pass it on:
My 86-year-old mother is in the hospital with pneumonia in Tucson and not making sense. It’s impressive, what that does to you. I might as well call this post “John Watch.”
My brother is worried that I’m not there and hopes I’m coming soon. That’s not how we do it, though. Just the sight of [...]
Interesting…
Example A: was $360K, now $279K and the owner will look at “any” offers. Example B: was $675K, now $395K. Whoa! That’s a drop of over 40 percent. The paper is full of ads with “REDUCED!” banners on them. And here the conventional wisdom was that this would never happen because Taos is an “end [...]
The old lady [see previous post] was admitted to the hospital yesterday, and yes, she has pneumonia. She’s also tried twice to “escape” and almost succeeded last night in ripping the IV out of her arm and making it to the hallway. Urk.
So it’s come to this.
The next step is “chemical restraint,” i.e. sedation, [...]
Mine turns 87 this year, and we forgot to stage The Intervention. Too bad, not that it would have worked.
She lives in a so-called “mobile home community” in Tucson. What that really means is single-wides and double-wides close together, baking in the sun below a mountain, an aluminum hive of isolation and prep for final [...]
