Guest guest Posted October 13, 2005 Report Share Posted October 13, 2005 My mother was found to have mets from lungs to brain and had surgery. post surgery she went to a nursing home, but the nursing home was awful. (they lost her meal trays and kept telling her they gave them to her, I was there and I KNOW she never got them.turns out for a week, there was another patient ith her name there who did not get trays due to being on a feeding tube) her TV broke and they did not fix it, broke for over a week.... and then we found out they blew off 2 neurosurgeon appts and 2 oncologist appts. She begged me to take her home, I told her I would but we needed to get a caregiver to help me, cuz of my husbands cancer and my disabled kids and my own illness.she agreed. Got her home Sept 30, and she has cancelled every caregivers interview I have tried to set u (she calls and cancels them when I leave the room to go pee) She cannot walk, is incontinent, and watches TV 24-7. (I hate TV) I cannot leave her alone.....so, unplanned, I have been living on her family room sofa 6 inches from her.... She refuses to go to her doc appts, now, refuses to allow my siblings to know she is not going, refuses for them to know she cannot walk and is incontinant.....and lately refuses all phone calls and visitors. Meanwhile, my husband is battling new cancer in his bladder alone, with our kids, whose symptoms are flaring up again while I struggle to figure out a balance or answer to this whole mess. My 10 yr old misses me so much...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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