my mom

[Drunk Monk]

So this morning, my mom called saying she did well at OT and the therapist said she was right on track, which she thought meant she was to be released this Wednesday.  I spent most of the day thinking of how that might work.  When I got to the healthcare center, she corrected herself saying she had no idea what would happen next but she definitely didn't feel confident about going home yet.  She's still wheelchair bound.  If she could get to a walker, we both think it'll be possible.  

We found out that PAMF does reviews on Tuesdays and my mom is scheduled for one.  We also found out that she has no discharge date. We originally thought she was given two weeks only, but now we're told that the two weeks is the reeval point, which we are told is tomorrow.  

After spending 9 months at this facility with my dad, it's harsh going back.  Honestly, I'm not sure I can go through all this again.  With my dad, he was mobile but aphasic.  My mom is oriented, although she gets confused and overwhelmed in the medical system (as do I) and has some memory fails, but not to the point of dementia or anything.  She just can't walk.  So it's like the opposite issue.  

What has made it worse is that in just a few years, the traffic plaque has thickened along the 85 artery so that the commute is hours of stop-&-go, like from 3-to-7, and there's no real workaround, so I have to dance around that to go home.  The mornings are bad too.