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otherearths_outthere) wrote2021-11-17 03:59 pm
otherearths_outthere) wrote2021-11-17 03:59 pm
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Now What?
I must be letting my mothers situation be getting to me more than I thought it would. There is a reason I’m slightly removed from the situation, several actually, but she was ensconced in her assisted living apartment last Wednesday and she has been in the hospital more than she has been ‘home’
I feel for her, as do my brothers, but we are frustrated. She doesn’t want to do her exercises, she won’t use her walker and she forgets her ‘life alert’ pendant.
So my response is? I’ve spent the last week or so struggling to just get out of bed. I’m lying there in the morning for hours telling myself to get up. When I finally lurch myself out and up, I’m kicking myself for the things I’m not doing. I have health needs of my own that are not being met. I really don’t want to end up like her and many other elders. I feel I have the tools available to me. Yet I’m not using them. Auggggghhhhh.
I feel for her, as do my brothers, but we are frustrated. She doesn’t want to do her exercises, she won’t use her walker and she forgets her ‘life alert’ pendant.
So my response is? I’ve spent the last week or so struggling to just get out of bed. I’m lying there in the morning for hours telling myself to get up. When I finally lurch myself out and up, I’m kicking myself for the things I’m not doing. I have health needs of my own that are not being met. I really don’t want to end up like her and many other elders. I feel I have the tools available to me. Yet I’m not using them. Auggggghhhhh.