my mom

[Drunk Monk]

My mom called upset that I planned to add another caretaker. She doesn’t want anything to change and says she’s doing better every day (not what she said the last two days). So we’ll belay that trip to the ER, although I’m waiting to hear if her neighbor has a conflicting report (he’s been so kind to bring her the newspaper and check in with her every day -  her newspaper shows how stubborn she is with resisting change)

I didn’t hear from my mom all day, nor from her caretaker or neighbor and assumed she went to bed at 8ish like usual so I put my phone down (I’ve been neurotically checking it all day). She called after and left a scattered message saying she’ll need help on Monday which was why I was trying to get another caretaker, but it was too late to call her back. I’ll call tomorrow. Her Monday caretaker had to cancel because her husband is having an operation - a substitute is coming Sunday when she usually doesn’t have someone. I’ll probably go on Monday and stay until Wednesday. 

I reread some of the beginning of this thread - details about when she broke her back in 2019 - there was a lot of things I’d intentionally forgotten. This is starting to feel like the reprise.