Mom will be an official resident of BG and ... she is happy about it! Mom has been shooing friends away all week telling them that she has to clean because she is moving. She has been angry and agitated. Today when she shooed away her best friend since kindergarten, we all decided it was time to move on it. Megan made the arrangements with BG and 4 of us got most of her things moved in tonight. Not only did Mom direct us in what to take, she came with us and helped get the room set up. She was so impressed with the view this time and was very grateful that BG planted the 40 foot tree right outside her window. She dinstinctly remembered that the last time she was there she could only see a parking lot outside her window :~) ! She also thought that there was plenty of space in her temporary room. We will still be persuing the one bedroom unit. She was exhausted when returned home around 9pm and was looking forward to a good night sleep. (So amI!) Hoping all goes well tomorrow!
Go gently, Q
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
5 days and counting
Another bad day. I really think the heat and lack of hydration make her worse. She continued her cleaning and packing anticipating the arrival of the men coming to wisk (ha-ha, get it Michael? Like the laundry detergent.) her away. I dropped off the paperwork and check at BG. Everything was in order. I asked Linda about Mom moving in over the weekend. They do not usually allow it, however if I can get Dr.Lavin to upgrade Mom's ability to take meds from "with supervision to self-medicate" they will allow it. Apparently, there are not always nurses on on the weekends. I will go ahead and get this issue clarified, but after talking with a very exhausted Danny this evening, he would just as soon move furniture in over the weekend and then Mom on Monday. This works for me as well. We'll just try to keep Mom occupied until then. Stuat, do whatever works for you. There is not that much stuff so you definitely don't have to. I promise we will make the move as gentle as possible.
Ta-ta for now. Go gently, Q
Ta-ta for now. Go gently, Q
Based on what you locals have seen
when would be the best time for me to come from the next two weekends?
If Mom hasn't moved in, I wouldn't mind showing up and taking her and a few things over in my truck. She hasn't shown me around BG yet. In fact, I have never been on their campus. So she might be willing to take me over there and we can see about putting things in the apartment.
I also want to see what the broker has done, but I haven't heard if he will be ready with a portfolio plan by Friday. I'll try him tomorrow. Besides the blues, any other plans for the weekend?
If Mom hasn't moved in, I wouldn't mind showing up and taking her and a few things over in my truck. She hasn't shown me around BG yet. In fact, I have never been on their campus. So she might be willing to take me over there and we can see about putting things in the apartment.
I also want to see what the broker has done, but I haven't heard if he will be ready with a portfolio plan by Friday. I'll try him tomorrow. Besides the blues, any other plans for the weekend?
In the news....
By MARILYNN MARCHIONE,AP Medical Writer AP - Wednesday, July 30
CHICAGO - For the first time, an experimental drug shows promise for halting the progression of Alzheimer's disease by taking a very new approach: breaking up the protein tangles that clog victims' brains.
The encouraging results, presented Tuesday at a medical conference, electrified a field battered by recent setbacks. The findings by Singapore-based TauRx Therapeutics Ltd. are only from a midstage study, so much more testing must be done.
But experts who saw the results for the drug Rember were heartened.
"These are the first very positive results I've seen" for helping patients maintain mental performance, said Marcelle Morrison-Bogorad, director of Alzheimer's research at the National Institute on Aging. "It's just fantastic."
The federal agency funded much of the early research that led to drugs like Rember that target the tangles of Alzheimer's, made up of a protein called tau. For decades, scientists have focused on a different protein _ sticky beta-amyloid deposits _ but have yet to get a workable treatment.
The four Alzheimer's drugs currently available just ease symptoms of the mind-robbing disease, which afflicts more than 5 million Americans and is mushrooming as the population ages.
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/ap/20080730/tbs-med-alzheimer-s-drugs-f8250da.html
CHICAGO - For the first time, an experimental drug shows promise for halting the progression of Alzheimer's disease by taking a very new approach: breaking up the protein tangles that clog victims' brains.
The encouraging results, presented Tuesday at a medical conference, electrified a field battered by recent setbacks. The findings by Singapore-based TauRx Therapeutics Ltd. are only from a midstage study, so much more testing must be done.
But experts who saw the results for the drug Rember were heartened.
"These are the first very positive results I've seen" for helping patients maintain mental performance, said Marcelle Morrison-Bogorad, director of Alzheimer's research at the National Institute on Aging. "It's just fantastic."
The federal agency funded much of the early research that led to drugs like Rember that target the tangles of Alzheimer's, made up of a protein called tau. For decades, scientists have focused on a different protein _ sticky beta-amyloid deposits _ but have yet to get a workable treatment.
The four Alzheimer's drugs currently available just ease symptoms of the mind-robbing disease, which afflicts more than 5 million Americans and is mushrooming as the population ages.
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/ap/20080730/tbs-med-alzheimer-s-drugs-f8250da.html
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
SOSDD
I'm sorry. I'm blogtarded. (I'm not knocking the handicapped! I really am.) By the time I leave Mom's, I'm just drained.
Anyway, it really was same old s..., different day. She was resigned and quiet. She had clothes and food packed up that she wanted me to donate. She was scrubbing the kitchen and bathroom floors when I arrived. She told me that "they" (?) told her to start cleaning because people were coming to look at the house on Friday. I asked her why people were coming and she replied "Well, if you wanted to sell a dress or something, you wouldn't want it to be dirty, would you?"
She is definitely looking to the future. I think it will be a big relief when "the move" isn't hanging over her, even if it isn't her nice apartment at first.
She did mention again that she does not enjoy the constant parade of people hovering over her. I am pretty sure she is on to the lunch bunch, too. She wandered who the next one would be. If nothing else, BG will give her control over who she lets in. That should make her happy. I'm sure I will be on her do not admit list. She thinks Dr.Lavin and I are conspiring against her. Oh well. Tomorrow is another day.
Sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite.
Anyway, it really was same old s..., different day. She was resigned and quiet. She had clothes and food packed up that she wanted me to donate. She was scrubbing the kitchen and bathroom floors when I arrived. She told me that "they" (?) told her to start cleaning because people were coming to look at the house on Friday. I asked her why people were coming and she replied "Well, if you wanted to sell a dress or something, you wouldn't want it to be dirty, would you?"
She is definitely looking to the future. I think it will be a big relief when "the move" isn't hanging over her, even if it isn't her nice apartment at first.
She did mention again that she does not enjoy the constant parade of people hovering over her. I am pretty sure she is on to the lunch bunch, too. She wandered who the next one would be. If nothing else, BG will give her control over who she lets in. That should make her happy. I'm sure I will be on her do not admit list. She thinks Dr.Lavin and I are conspiring against her. Oh well. Tomorrow is another day.
Sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite.
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