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Riverwind (imported) wrote: Fri Jun 13, 2008 6:26 am You may want to call APS and wage a complaint that the Nursing Home is threating you.

River

I could do that but I was under the impression that APS was against me. They took mom out of the house years ago when it was roach infested.

I have a call into my attorney. I'll call him tomorrow as he is out for the rest of the day.

If I didn't mention it before, I do have Conservatorship over mom now.... for all the good that seems to do.

On the minus side, I slept almost all day and just awoke. On the plus side, it's the first sleep I've had in a week

Isn't sleep vundabar (wundervoll)

Maybe sleep isn't a good thing after all. Saturday, I laid down at 2:30pm and slept like a log for five hours. When I awoke I felt great until I "tried" to stand up. Once I got to mr feet I noticed my equilibrium was way off. For two days now I'm been missing the chair and bumping into doorways. Today, I feel light headed too.

Anyone of your old buzzards experience this? If so tell me.

Thanks

MacTheWolf (imported) wrote: Tue Jun 17, 2008 12:26 am Maybe sleep isn't a good thing after all. Saturday, I laid down at 2:30pm and slept like a log for five hours. When I awoke I felt great until I "tried" to stand up. Once I got to mr feet I noticed my equilibrium was way off. For two days now I'm been missing the chair and bumping into doorways. Today, I feel light headed too.

Anyone of your old buzzards experience this? If so tell me.

Thanks

That sounds serious. Time to talk to a doctor. I know that might be hard for someone with no income.

I agree with Blaise. There are various causes for vertigo and defective equilibrium, some serious and some not. Are you on any blood pressure medications ? Some cause vertigo as a side effect. Sorry I can't remember the name of the worst offender in this respect, as I have been off it for years.

I have poor equilibrium as a result of a head injury in an auto accident in 1971, aggravated by old age. But, to have these conditions come on suddenly is unusual and alarming. By all means , see a doctor about this.

I don't have high blood pressure nor do I take meds for anything. I did find today that eating three meals a day makes me less shakey than fasting. Duh

Shaky ? If fasting makes you feel shaky, you may very well have diabetes. This is one of the earliest symptoms. Diabetes, especially type II which is likeliest at your age, can be controlled by any of several drugs, such as Metformin, Avandamet, Actos, Actoplus Met, etc.

Shakiness was the first symptom which diabetes displayed in my case. My Type II diabetes is well controlled by Actoplus Met, though my physician is changing my prescription to Avandamet because Actoplus causes fluid retention and I'm bothered by oedema in my ankles.

Please, DO see a physician about the vertigo, shakiness when hungry, and disturbed equilibrium. Don't try to be your own diagnostician or rely on pontificating old farts like me.

Bagoas (imported) wrote: Wed Jun 18, 2008 3:38 am Shaky ? If fasting makes you feel shaky, you may very well have diabetes. This is one of the earliest symptoms. Diabetes, especially type II which is likeliest at your age, can be controlled by any of several drugs, such as Metformin, Avandamet, Actos, Actoplus Met, etc.

Shakiness was the first symptom which diabetes displayed in my case. My Type II diabetes is well controlled by Actoplus Met, though my physician is changing my prescription to Avandamet because Actoplus causes fluid retention and I'm bothered by oedema in my ankles.

Please, DO see a physician about the vertigo, shakiness when hungry, and disturbed equilibrium. Don't try to be your own diagnostician or rely on pontificating old farts like me.

Aren't those the symptoms of HYPOGLYCEMIA?

...that's LOW blood sugar...

Bagoas - I was kidding about fasting.

I must feel better today as I walked two miles to pay all my utility bills in 98 F. heat. That or I'm nucking futz.

On the plus side, the rest of the week here will be cooler...only 97 F.

Yes, you are nucking futz and it has nothing to do with walking in the heat-- or so I'm told by another old guy or two. --FLO--

Uncle Flo (imported) wrote: Wed Jun 18, 2008 6:58 am Yes, you are nucking futz and it has nothing to do with walking in the heat-- or so I'm told by another old guy or two. --FLO--

I walked for at least three miles every business day after work in the heat of Louisiana summer. I still had bypass surgery that kept me from dying (at that time at least).

Blaise (imported) wrote: Wed Jun 18, 2008 7:05 am I walked for at least three miles every business day after work in the heat of Louisiana summer. I still had bypass surgery that kept me from dying (at that time at least).

Last time I was in Louisiana was in my youth, 1964. I thought New Orleans was hot at night in the French Quarter but not nearly as miserable as Fort Walton Beach - Shalimar, Florida. Then, 30 some years later, I discovered Florida was beat out by Washington D.C. in August.

No wonder there was a Revolutionary War there about 230 years ago. The heat there would make anyone so miserable that the most conservative person would be driven to revolt.

MacTheWolf (imported) wrote: Wed Jun 18, 2008 8:01 pm Last time I was in Louisiana was in my youth, 1964. I thought New Orleans was hot at night in the French Quarter but not nearly as miserable as Fort Walton Beach - Shalimar, Florida. Then, 30 some years later, I discovered Florida was beat out by Washington D.C. in August.

No wonder there was a Revolutionary War there about 230 years ago. The heat there would make anyone so miserable that the most conservative person would be driven to revolt.

I found Boston unbearable in summer; I think that the East Coast lowland area can be miserable. Atlanta used to be tolerable until August, but now it is miserable in earlier summer. I hate the weather where I live.

Come live in Wisconsin, it never gets that hot or humid, however there is a small down side. 6 months of winter and two of those have temp's below zero.

St Louis is also a wonderful place to be in Aug.

River

Now if only my medieval neurons could fathom how to place a quote at the bottom of each of my posts. I went to User CP, clicked on Signature, typed in what I wanted and saved it. Unfortunately, nothing appeared.

I could swear that wasn't there before. Ok, somebody shoot me.

It seemed to work ok for me, maybe its a MAC thing.

Your MUCH younger friend.

See message below

River

I figured it out with aid from River and Paolo, you know, those two kids

Frack. The weatherman was wrong about cooler days. Today is 103º F.

There are hotter places in the world than where I live in Palo Alto, but I had to shut down my computer out in the studio because it is too hot to run the the thing. It has good thermal protection but who want to take a chance when it is easier to sit in the shade and take it easy

The nursing home just called me. This is the fourth call they have made to me in one week's time. Each call involved making a room change on mom. It seems mom has a new problem.

Monday they called to tell me mom had pulled out the feeding tube again. That was no surprise. But it seems mom is doing something different. After she pulls out her feeding tube, she gets out bed, goes to the patient next to her and pulls out their feeding tube as well.

I honestly don't know what to think about that.

MacTheWolf (imported) wrote: Fri Jun 20, 2008 9:46 am The nursing home just called me. This is the fourth call they have made to me in one week's time. Each call involved making a room change on mom. It seems mom has a new problem.

Monday they called to tell me mom had pulled out the feeding tube again. That was no surprise. But it seems mom is doing something different. After she pulls out her feeding tube, she gets out bed, goes to the patient next to her and pulls out their feeding tube as well.

I honestly don't know what to think about that.

That's practicing medicine without a license...

Mac--

Good to hear that you got conservatorship over your mother's assets and, at least to some extent, over her care and her circumstances. If your financial profile is as thin as you've indicated, it's surprising that you were granted the conservatorship, especially considering the usual bonding requirements.

Your lawyer must be quite good at things of this type, so he may already have discussed this with you. But, anyway, I'd point out that you might be better able to protect your mother's assets if you could get them into a trust. I'm assuming that bills for her care at the nursing home are piling up, and sooner or later either Protective Services or the nursing home will likely file suit. If the assets were in a trust before any lawsuits are filed (assuming none have been filed yet) those assets (your house, etc.) probably would be safe. Your mother could be beneficiary of the trust, with yourself as the heir to her interest.

Once a lawsuit is filed, the court would probably block creation of a trust. And, usually, transer of assets to a trust is a bigger transaction than the court overseeing a conservatorship would approve. But, you and your lawyer could always try. Be tough to save the house if the court makes a judgement against you mother and allows the creditors to take her assets

Best of luck, and I'd hope your mother's condition stabilizes. Statutory law probably doesn't give you or her any rights to speak of in the situation, but perhaps there is case law which would give you grounds to file a suit to get her out of the nursing home. She might expire sooner living at home, but she'd probably be happier in the time she was there.

Beau Geste (imported) wrote: Mon Jun 23, 2008 7:03 am Mac--

Good to hear that you got conservatorship over your mother's assets and, at least to some extent, over her care and her circumstances. If your financial profile is as thin as you've indicated, it's surprising that you were granted the conservatorship, especially considering the usual bonding requirements.

Your lawyer must be quite good at things of this type, so he may already have discussed this with you. But, anyway, I'd point out that you might be better able to protect your mother's assets if you could get them into a trust. I'm assuming that bills for her care at the nursing home are piling up, and sooner or later either Protective Services or the nursing home will likely file suit. If the assets were in a trust before any lawsuits are filed (assuming none have been filed yet) those assets (your house, etc.) probably would be safe. Your mother could be beneficiary of the trust, with yourself as the heir to her interest.

Once a lawsuit is filed, the court would probably block creation of a trust. And, usually, transer of assets to a trust is a bigger transaction than the court overseeing a conservatorship would approve. But, you and your lawyer could always try. Be tough to save the house if the court makes a judgement against you mother and allows the creditors to take her assets

Best of luck, and I'd hope your mother's condition stabilizes. Statutory law probably doesn't give you or her any rights to speak of in the situation, but perhaps there is case law which would give you grounds to file a suit to get her out of the nursing home. She might expire sooner living at home, but she'd probably be happier in the time she was there.

That sounds somewhat encouraging and discouraging, but you have always know this about your situation. You and I are poor people.

Blaise (imported) wrote: Mon Jun 23, 2008 7:24 am That sounds somewhat encouraging and discouraging, but you have always know this about your situation. You and I are poor people.

What! I'm poor? OMG, I thought I was just middle class dregs.

Mom's social worker called and wants me at her office at 8:00am. She wants to verify mom's sources of income. She believes mom is making too much money to qualify for Medi-Cal (state health insurance).

I guess I was under the misimpression that living in poverty was qualification enough. Silly me.