Thank you, Sue, for your helpful compassion. Her son is going to be in charge of all her financial and legal issues.... I am going to be in charge of her day to day care and getting her to all her appointments (with the help of my sons, daughters, and husband). My nephew is very interested in conferencing in on all her appointments that are consultations, and has been doing so since his mom got sick. He calls her and comforts her in so many ways. He saw her at Thanksgiving, and even though I kept him up to date with her health issues with daily, detailed text messages, he was shocked to see her weakness and decline at Christmas.
He will have legal power of attorney, and medical power of attorney. I hope he will let me be joint on the medical POA because I may have to make decisions quickly ... do you agree?
She has stopped the medicine that was ?causing side effects of extreme weakness and confusion. She has improved a lot in that way, almost pre-medicine in most areas. But she is having hallucinations ... for example, she said she was scared of how my legs look.... she saw legs that had no skin and could see all my bones and muscles. It is so very hard to see her fall apart like this. But she retains her sense of humor.... she is truly a delightful woman in so many ways.
Tomorrow we start physical therapy twice a week. I hope that goes well.
Thank you again for being here. My whole family is super worried about me and really encourage me to have your support through this. (I had cancer a decade ago, and they are quite protective over me.)