I spent some time on the phone with Shirl Saturday & Sunday night. I was pleased that She seemed to be in a good mood both times. She told me that She has tried to maintain a more common sense attitude to everything that his happening in her world right now, and that has helped her to realize what the smartest things are to do now. She is still very concerned about how Pop is gonna react when he gets left at the care place. She is afraid he is going to be angry and resistant about it. I pointed out to her that 85% of the time he does not know where he is now anyway, or who anyone is either. She agreed that was true, then laughed and said that after they were finished with dinner Friday night, Dad said, Well, lets go home now. she chuckled about that and said, so you are right about that. Reminded her that the nice folks there are pro's at handling these things and they will take good care of him, which she agreed with.
We talked about how he is sometimes not making it to the bathroom in time, and since it just #1 now, she can deal with that. But she was emphatic that if it starts to be #2..she will not be able to deal with that at all.
All in all, the conversations were very positive and she certainly seems to have accepted what needs to be done. She said she will miss him and be lonely but I have a lotta friends to hang with and talk with and appreciated all her family helping with this also. She is very appreciative of Celia and her smarts for getting things done effeciently and helping her figure things out about the $$, insurance, and legal stuff. As we all are!!!
I think she is ready to move to the next step, which is taking that phone call about the room being available. She says she knows what needs to be done when that call comes.
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