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Wed Jun 7, 2017, 01:02 PM
Jun 2017

I contacted our local senior citizen center and spoke to someone about switching Mom's Medicaid from her state to mine. I will call back to ask about day care centers. Trouble is, my Mom isn't the most social of people. She's very shy and relied on her sisters for friendship.
I'm off work for the summer (work in a school) so I'll go to the apartments in my area and start filling out applications to get her on the waiting lists.
She does get some help currently. Someone comes in to clean her apartment and do her laundry. I do down and do the things they miss (like taking the raised toilet seat off and giving it and the toilet bowl a good clean). A saint of a woman had been taking her to the grocery for 10 years. Now that Mom isn't comfortable walking around the grocery she will pick up a few things for her. I batch cook items for her and freeze them so that all she needs to do is microwave them. She receives transport to/from medical appointments (of which there are a ton). I was able to find (upon recommendation of her PT and OT) a nurse practitioner that provides home visits. So at least she doesn't have to go out for GP type visits.

The local pharmacy delivers and has my credit card on file as they divide her prescriptions up for her. She takes numerous prescriptions 4 times a day and no longer has to worry about what to take when.

I knew that upon moving back to the USA last year I would need to take an active role in Mom's care. However, I didn't think it would be so difficult to move her from one state to another, nor did I expect my child with special needs behavior to become worse as quick as it did.

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