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Thread #29654   Message #377444
Posted By: Sorcha
18-Jan-01 - 09:49 PM
Thread Name: BS: Wise Words for Wednesday Jan 17th
Subject: RE: BS: Wise Words for Wednesday Jan 17th
After the "Taking Care of My Mother Fiasco" in 1998, Kate swears she will put me in a Nursing Home rather than go through that. I am all with her.......I would rather go to ANY Nursing Home than put my family through what my Mom put me through. Hey, we get meals, clean clothes, and don't have to plan/cook for Holidays.....what more could I ask for?

I can always be the Ultimate Bitch and press my call button every 30 seconds.........and yell and scream a lot! LOL! (no, I know it's not really funny, but I would rather be there than know I destroyed my family for two years, and that is what happened to me--both kids ended up in the Judicial System because I wasn't there to supervise, and I damn near ended up in Divorce Court because she was SO BLOODY determined to "die at home". Which, in the end, she didn't, because she had a heart attack and it was so painful we had to take her to hospital for meds.........

Upshot is she died anyway, and so will I. Someday. Sometime. I just hope I don't cause anyone I love a lot of grief before I die, like my mom did.......