Careful What You Tell the Doctor
All my friends who have experience dealing with Alzheimer's tell me to stay calm; no matter how bad things are, it only get's worse. I finally believe them and think I am ready until I have another experience, like today. I have been trying to move my mom from Utah to a facility in California where we now live. There are very few facilities that accept Alzheimer's patients and fewer still that accept Medicaid for someone with Alzheimer's. Every month or two I go on a binge calling every facility on the medicare.gov website within a 30-mile radius. All the rejection gets pretty disheartening and I feel pretty depressed, guilty and hopeless about how I can get my mom close to me while she still remembers who I am. Last week as I went through the list the first place I called had two open Medicaid beds! I kept calling and found another facility that had an opening. I was so excited and still don't know why but this is such a miracle I don't want to question it. ...