The Mom & Me Journals dot Net
The definitive, eccentric journal of an unlikely caregiver, continued.

Apologia for these journals:
    They are not about taking care of a relative with moderate to severe Alzheimer's/senile dementia.
    For an explanation of what these journals are about, click the link above.
    For internet sources that are about caring for relatives with moderate to severe
        Alzheimer's/senile dementia, click through the Honorable Alzheimer's Blogs in my
        links section to the right.

7 minute Audio Introduction to The Mom & Me Journals [a bit dated, at the moment]

Monday, June 30, 2008
 
Oh, one more thing.
    Over the last few days I've become acquainted with the other two advocating relatives of two of the facility clients. I find it interesting that all of us are acutely involved with the medical industry: Me, avocationally as my mother's long time caregiver, although both of the other advocates has asked me if I have ever been employed in the medical industry because of my knowledge of and ability to discuss my mother's care and conditions; The wife of a resident as a retired medical insurance manager; The son of a resident as an active pharmacist (whose mother, the client, is also a retired pharmacist). Of the 34 residents on my mother's floor and all of the other residents in the facility (which serves long term care residents as well as short term rehab/recover clients), only the three of us are active, almost-always-there advocates for our relatives. All of us, as well, have had significant problems with the facility, and, as it turns out (as we've discovered in informal meetings with one another) with the hospital prior to facility "interment". Speaking with each other when we can has confirmed, for each of us, that we are not imagining the problems we find ourselves negotiating.
    We found one another simply by noticing the others' ubiquitous presence.
    Just wanted to mention this.
    To the shower.
    Later.
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