Assisted Living

  • Aging Parents,  Assisted Living,  Health,  Moving,  Uncategorized

    Unwelcome Surprise this Week and Planning Mom’s Move

    Thursday, May 14 Well, sometimes things don’t go quite as planned. We have to accept that. I’m having a little mini crisis. Since about 8:30 last night, about an hour after dinner, I began having a sharp pain in my left side. I’m familiar with it. It’s some type of colon flare I get – it’s rare now when I get it and short lived. Sometimes I can just ignore it and it will go away. But this time it’s being a little persistent bugger. I was able to sleep since I took Tylenol, but awoke to pain again this morning at 4:00. I drank a whole glass of water…

  • Assisted Living,  Caregiving,  Mom

    Mom in the Hospital and Finding Her Assisted Living Place

    Above is a pic of me in the visitor chair and Mom in the hospital bed beside me. It was no time to photo or video anything so I just took a shot of our feet. And you can see her wheel chair up there. I am so far behind in blogging. It was a crazy week. But I will do my best to recap the days as everything unfolded. Monday, April 20, 2026 Mom had one more test at Summit Hospital (Tri-Centennial) to see if she qualified for the TAVR procedure. It was a heart catheter test to see if her veins and arteries were clear. Once we got…