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47of74

(18,470 posts)
Tue Jul 26, 2016, 10:36 AM Jul 2016

Now my aunt isn't doing well.

My aunt isn't doing all that great. She's been in the hospital and in nursing homes. Yesterday my mom and my other aunt who is this aunt's caretaker went around cancelling all her stuff - phone, tv, internet, etc and letting the apartment complex she was living in know she probably wouldn't be coming back. Plus setting up with the funeral home my aunt wants and getting a monument ordered for when she does pass. (And no it will not just be a stone with her initials - one time she was all worked up about how if she had her name and date of birth and death on her stone her identity would get stolen after she passed and said she would just have a stone with her initials on it). They're getting all that now while she still has the assets to do so before she has to give all those up.

Hopefully she'll improve once she has the care she needs. I hope she doesn't go this year. We've had deaths in my immediate family the past three years so I'd kind of like to get through this year without one of those, seeing as how 2016 has been a crap hole of a year otherwise.

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Now my aunt isn't doing well. (Original Post) 47of74 Jul 2016 OP
I hope she is very comfortable with the care she needs. Hopefully having auntAgonist Jul 2016 #1
Thank you. 47of74 Jul 2016 #2
Nursing home staff say it takes about two weeks to adjust No Vested Interest Jul 2016 #3

auntAgonist

(17,257 posts)
1. I hope she is very comfortable with the care she needs. Hopefully having
Wed Jul 27, 2016, 10:12 PM
Jul 2016

everything looked after will ease her mind and give her peace.

I hope you get your wish and you have her around for a long time yet.

Know that you are in my thoughts.

aA
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47of74

(18,470 posts)
2. Thank you.
Wed Jul 27, 2016, 11:04 PM
Jul 2016

I'm not particularly close to her but she is family. I hope she doesn't go anytime soon and that she'll improve once she's in round the clock care.

No Vested Interest

(5,193 posts)
3. Nursing home staff say it takes about two weeks to adjust
Thu Jul 28, 2016, 02:24 AM
Jul 2016

to the new situation for most people.
My daughter is currently is a long-term facility, due to a stroke having given her aphasia, meaning her speech and writing are affected, as well as a right hand and arm left useless, in addition to other serious medical conditions requiring monitoring and medications.

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