Glad to hear you are home, Nancy. And glad you were able to be there to help your mom with her healing process.

I think you are right. As much as I dislike nursing homes, sometimes they are the only viable option. Keep us posted on her progress.

Now get some rest, and get yourself feeling good again! Keeping your mom in my thoughts....

Linda

Thanks for the update; glad you are home, hope you feel better.

Good thoughts sent to your mom for a speedy and full recovery.

Nancy, welcome back. I'm glad your mom is doing better. Hopefully she will be well enough shortly to move back home.

Ann

Nursing homes have a purpose and are often good on a short term basis.

Sending positive thoughts for rapid healing. And remember that caregivers (you!) need care too.

I'm glad you're able to return home and that your mom is recovering.

Best wishes to you.

AM

Taking care of our parents is such hard work sometimes, hard work and love and care, but it's so very rewarding, too. It's great your mother's recovering, and is well enough to put some of her own work into recovering.

Take care, Nancy, and welcome back.

Sally

I can imagine how relieve you are that mom is making progress AND to be home. It's one thing to be away from home in good times but totally different with under such stress.

Take care of yourself Lady--that's an order!

Cathy

Nancy glad your Mom is on the mend. Sounds like a rough two weeks for you and for her. Thank goodness for your SIL, having her so close will help you worry less, notice I didn't say not worry! This is a very difficult stage for the entire family.

When it became clear my MIL could not really take care of herself properly, especially eating a proper diet, we found an assisted living apartment for her. She had her own apartment with a small galley kitchen, living area and sleeping area.

There was no personal care but she could go down to the dining room for meals, or she could make her own , or a combination thereof. There was a 7/24 nurse on duty and each unit had a call bell for emergencies. It worked out very well, meting her needs for independance and my need to know she was safe and eating well. Maybe your Mom would be OK with something like that.

Nancy,

So glad to hear your Mom's improving & has the both the care & the therapy she needs to regain functionality. Hopefully, she'll be home quickly.

Sorry you've caught a 'bug'. Take care of yourself...lots of rest, sunshine, & BBQ will have you up to snuff in no time!

Thoughts & prayers to all of you...

/tricia

Welcome back Nancy, and a big hug for your mom and SIL too. It sounds like it's been an incredibly stressful couple of weeks for you. What a relief to hear your mom is doing so much better, she is one heck of a strong lady. So are you:-) Hang in there, and take good care of you too. Sending more good healing vibes to your mom.
DONNA

Nancy, welcome home. I'm glad to hear that your Mom has recovered at least a little bit and I'm sending prayers and thoughts for a quick and complete recovery for both of you.

Take care of yourself now, knowing your Mom is in a place where you know she's being taken care of.

Annie

Nancy I'm sure you were run down with the stress so take care of yourself now. Good to hear that your mom is feeling a little better.
Sending best wishes that you find a good solution, but for the time being you know that she is in a safe place.

SharonCb

Good to hear DM is getting better. Hope you are feeling well soon!

: )
lyra

I'm so glad your DM is improving and hope she does get to go home to live.

I hope you continue to feel better. You probably got the virus because you were so run down.

((((((Nancy))))))

Beverly

Happy to hear the news that your mom is on the mend--or at least on track to regain a degree of independence. Take care of yourself and thank your lucky stars that your ex-SIL is so good to your mom! I wish I had someone to share my parent responsibilities!

Just had a call from my ex-SIL. They moved DM to a much better room this morning. DM is happy! She now has a phone, so I'll be calling her daily.

I'm feeling much better and plan on working starting Wed. The owner of the company wanted the store manager to fire me, for not working during the busy time over the last 2 weeks. So much for compassion! I won't bore you with the details but he's coming to the store on Thurs for a meeting. Guess we'll see what happens. While I was gone, the son of the Mgr still took a planned vacation, creating the big shortage of help, otherwise there wouldn't have been this big 'deal'. I'll be there but if the finger is pointed at me, I'll say my piece and walk! My DM comes way before any low paying part time job. Guess I should add, I was keeping the Mgr up to date and even left the owner a message a week ago that I'd be back ASAP. Grrrrrrr!

Nancy

Nancy, so glad to hear that your mom is coming along so nicely. Big sigh of relief huh? Glad she has a phone now so you can hear her voice when you can't see her.

About that job - I'd be so offended I think I'd walk anyway. I resent employers who expect their employees to push their families to the back burner. Oh hell yea, I'd walk. That irritates me.

Nancy, your news about your DM is great today. Take care of yourself. I'll bet that the storm over your absence will just blow away - they would be fools to even consider losing you.

Keeping you all in my thoughts,

Lee

Glad to hear things are getting better for your DM. I'm sure the phone access will be a big help for the both of you.

Very thoughtless of your company and management to treat you like that. Reminds of a country song....take this job and shove it....Johnny Paycheck if I remember.

David

We missed you Nancy. I hope DM improves as expected. Sorry about the fools at the company. Keep your chin up.

Nancy, I'm glad your Mother is doing well and is more satisfied with the new room.

That is really too bad about the job and the owner and I would look forward to any meeting with an opportunity to share my thoughts on the whole situation, even if it had to include a line or two from Johnny Paycheck, as David suggested.

Brenda

Nancy - sending you good healing wishes. I bet it was good to be home, with Kim, and in your own bed. Do take care of Nancy first.

Do what you have to do, and let karmic justice take care of that boss.

Nancy, I do belive the old saying in "What goes around comes around." Take care of the important things and I PROMISE you will be paid back triple time. I'm glad to see you back and in good health. It is such a difficult road taking care of a loved one.

The owned came in today as planned. I didn't get fired. The Mgr. however was told a few things regarding her handling of the whole situation and that her son is not welcome back to work there another year. They will both probably be leaving as soon as either finds other work.
I guess I'll try to hang around and see what happens.

Nancy

Hi Nancy! Sounds like things are going pretty well for your mom so far, that must feel good. I'll keep my fingers crossed.

I knew they wouldn't fire hardworking you, for heavans sake I can't believe that was even brought up!! Sorry you had to go through that in addition to all the rest. Hope you can get some r&r now that you're home.

Nancy, glad your Mom is doing better. It is so hard sometimes.

I take my Mother her medicine twice a day, we live in the same town!

I just hope my Mom can stay in her home and that is what I am trying to do. Her health is really pretty good and she does good on her everyday routine, it's just anything other than. She will be 84 in Sept.

Tell the job to take it and shove it, if you want to. LOL