moving gmommy

Well this morning the Goldstar Ambulance service here in Albany picked up Gmommy from A.G. Rhodes in Atlanta. They're taking her to a different rehab facility in Dothan, Al. where my aunt Darlene lives. After the few mess up's that happened mom and aunt Darlene felt like they should move Gmommy some where they could keep a closer eye on things. So Dothan it is. A deposit has also been put down at an assisted living place in Dothan. The chances of Gmommy getting well enough to return home are not looking good. We kind of knew that though the moment we found out she had fell.

She's been acting strange lately. She's been emotional and crying at pretty much everything. When people come to visit, when they leave, just anything. We're not sure if it's just the effects of morphine wearing off or if it's because she realizes that she probably won't be going home after this, maybe a bit of both. She doesn't know that a deposit has been given for the assisted living home and they're not going to tell her until they know for certain that she can't go home.

The sitter that we have for her now, has been coming 8hrs a day Sunday-Thursday. So Gmommy has been staying nights by herself and Fridays and Saturdays by herself. But after this fall no one is comfortable leaving her at home alone at all. Also the sitter will be starting back school in the summer so she'll only be able to work part time. So I guess it all works out that Gmommy will probably be going to an assisted living home once she leaves rehab.

We're not sure how long she'll be in the rehab place. It all depends on her. If she gets up and does the work to get better and stronger. So we'll see what happens.

Gmommy update

So Gmommy is now in A.G. Rhodes Health & Rehab. She's there to get rehab for her hip and arm that she broke before she can go home. Well we get a call Monday saying that she's got a urinary track infection, which isn't a huge deal cause she gets them all the time. However they said that they had already started her on an antibiotic. Well that is a problem because they didn't check with her kidney doctor. They really have to watch what she takes because of the creatine levels in her kidneys are easily effected. Well my mom got all pissed because the people at the rehab place said they knew nothing of her kidney doctor, even though the people at the hospital said that they had sent all that information to them when Gmommy left. Who knows? Well mom checked with the kidney doctor and he said what she was taking was ok, but that he had asked them for blood tests and still hadn't received anything. So my mom had to call back the rehab place and tell them to do all that. So that was Monday.

Wednesday we get a call saying that she isn't doing well. She hasn't been eating and she's very dehydrated. Well that's really weird because the only thing that cause that is when she's on heavy pain medication, but they took her off morphine at the hospital and started giving her something less potent. So my mom drove up there to see what was going on. She called my dad last night and was furious!!!! The rehab place had been giving her two dozes of morphine a day! She's 85 years old!!! You can't give her that! Stupid ass people. Not only that but her right arm which is broken is in a sling. Well these morons had the sling on backwards. How do you even do that? So of course her arm was bothering her. My mom had a fit! She gave everyone a piece of her mind. She was setting them straight about everything!

So that is what's going on. My mom is still there. She's checking on how things are going today and if things have changed then she'll be coming home. But if Gmommy isn't getting better or these people continue to be incompetent she's going to stay till tomorrow when my Aunt Darlene gets there. 

Gmommys at it again

So after having a great year with pretty much no complications other than a few urinary infections, she's back in the hospital.

Today she fell and broke her right hip and arm. We got the EMT's to take her to Piedmont hospital since that's where all of her other doctors are. The doctor said that without even having an x-ray he could tell that she would need to have surgery on her hip. And that her arm was definitely broken as well. Now I don't know if that means that it was sticking out or if it's just because she's old so it's pretty positive that her bones break when she falls. She's 85! Now as much as that sucks, no one is all that worried about the actual broken bones. What we're all worried about is her being put back under anesthesia. She did not do well on it before and it has really effected her memory that she's never fully came back from. So we're worried about what it is going to do to her mind this time. Hopefully it won't do anything since it won't be that long, but who knows.

Also she's become lazy over the past few years since she was sick and everything. She got use to people doing everything for her. We really had to force her to do things for her self again, even little things like getting a glass of water! So now that she'll be unable to do things again for herself she's going to get lazy again. We also had trouble getting her up and moving before when she got home. So we'll have to go through all that again. This might end up being the end of her living at home. We knew it was coming but now that she wont be able to take care of herself and her sitter is only comes 5 days a week during the day, that wont work any more. She'll need to have someone round the clock again.

So that is what's going on with Gmommy. 

weekend mess

Friday I didn't do much of anything. Saturday however Brooke and I went to Americus. She wanted to get a jacket they had there. Of course we got there and the jacket didn't fit right so she didn't get it. We did go to a local place and had a great lunch! We went to a few other stores while we were there. We went in her vehicle which by the way I'm not sure why cause something always seems to happen to her car. This time the windows upfront went down by them self and we couldn't get them to go back up! Needless to say it was a chilly ride back to Albany! I took some funny pictures of us riding back.

We finally got back to Albany and went to a few other stores. Went back to her house and got her moms car then had dinner. We were tired of being cold. After dinner I went over to Brads house and watched the fights with him. Sunday I didn't do much of anything. I did get up and do zumba though so that was productive. Although apparently I pulled a muscle in my neck doing it cause I woke up in the middle of the night Sunday night hurting. I had to lay on my back facing the ceiling so it wouldn't hurt. When I got up and tried to get ready for work I couldn't. It hurt so bad. I actually almost threw up from the pain. So I stayed home from work and spent most of my day on the couch. By the end of the day I could move it some and it wasn't hurting as much as it had earlier in the day. Today it's a lot better. I just can't lean my head back or to the left lol. I am at work though. So that was my weekend. Parts of it were boring and parts were hilarious!