Aunt Glady 6/30/06

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Her heart is failing.  She's in Evergreen Commons in North Greenbush.

This place is good.  Mom and I got there and the nurse was working with her.  The place is nicely set up, clean, spacious.  There's multiple nurses in the section. There's a doctor for the section and that *is* his practice- his only patients are in that section and he's on call if he's not on site.  They gave us a welcome packet with all the phone numbers, including the unit manager and the social worker.  We went to lunch, came back, and the doctor talked to us, sorted out the care orders (not only the DNR order but the no-tubes, etc. orders), and got things started with the social worker to get the proxy paperwork set up (something that Samaritan didn't help out on- expecting Ed to be able to get Aunt Glady to sign the papers on his own).  Then the social worker was there within a half hour and got the paperwork set up, the doctor to witness her nod to the question of if I could make decisions, and even got the paper signed.  I have the original and a copy of it already.

The idea is that we're going to make her as comfortable as possible.

Marnen got out of work early, and got there just in time to play a little bit for her before visiting hours were over.  Her room-mate also enjoyed it.  Aunt Glady relaxed to the point that she bare got out telling him "thank you" before going to sleep.

Then a whole group of us went to Garcias for dinner, including Ed and my mom.

I'm now sick... from sore throat to that weird pressure not pain in my ears to now coughing and feeling like I need to just curl up and make the world go away.

Ed and Marnen may be going up to Glenn Linn today, but it looks like court may be tomorrow.  So we're going to get a report from Virignia when she gets up there and make a decision from there.

I'll be at the nursing home for a good part of today.

Oh, I took the train up here on Thursday and I was delayed by a tree going across the tracks north of Hudson.

Comments

[sagefemme11.livejournal.com]

You're doing such an amazing job with your beloved auntie.

Now, take care of yourself a bit. :-)

[pickledtink.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to hear that she is in a place that really seems to care for their patients. And yes, you are a great niece to be doing so much for you aunt. But take care of yourself. Feel better soon.

[(Anonymous)]

Don't go to a nursing home sick. It is kinder to all of the residents to not expose them to something they can't fight off. A minor virus to you is life and death to them.