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Coming soon

01
May 2011
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My mom’s birthday is coming up soon. It’s June 24th to be exact and she’ll be 91 years old. I need to start looking for some birthday gift ideas for her. She lives in a nursing home so I can’t get her anything too extravagant or big.

I know she’d love some flowers or some fruit so I think I’ll look around and find something really nice for her. She loves strawberries so maybe some nice chocolate covered ones will do the trick.

I feel bad because I haven’t been able to make it to see her very often. Money is tight and gas is at a premium lately. I have to get her something really special for her birthday.

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Mother’s day is coming

28
Feb 2011
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Mother’s Day is coming soon and I’d love to find unique mday gifts for my mom. She is in a nursing home and is now 90 years old. She doesn’t look or act like she’s that old. She barely has any grey hair and that’s natural. She doesn’t dye her hair and never has.

She has some dementia that is slowly getting worse. Just yesterday I went to visit her and she was saying how we haven’t had much snow this winter. I reminded her that we had 20 inches of snow the day after Christmas and she doesn’t remember that at all or the other storms we had with over 8 inches of snow. She thinks the last time we had a big snowstorm was years ago.

It’s sad to see her going downhill like that. But I guess it could be worse. She remembers me and the rest of her family. It’s just other things she forgets about. Maybe a really nice mother’s day gift will brighten her world just a little.

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Trying to get help

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Jan 2010
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I have to start checking out nursing homes for mom. She has dementia and messes up her medications. Some she doesn’t take and confuses her best joint supplement for her dementia medicine and because she skips her dementia meds she’s getting very forgetful and gets nasty with everyone.

It’s not something I really want to do but I don’t know what else to do. The county won’t give any more help than they already are and her latest evaluation shows that she should be in a nursing home. Andi and I are going to visit some places and check them out and try to find the best one for her.

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