It has been a while because I realy have not had anything happening lately. Well, anything on the surrogacy journey.
Thanksgiving has come and gone. What a trip that was. We went to Iowa to visit my parents near Marshalltown. It is a long drive from here, a little over 15 hours. We left after work Tuesday and got there around 10:30am Wednesday. We had to work in the car and at my mother's home answering forwarded calls the first day, becasue we did not have Wednesday off. We made oyster stew Thursday, a ham for lunch Friday, lasagne for supper, and lots of snacking on Saturday. We watched THE parade,and some movies, made crafts, and cleaned a little.
My mother lives in a minimal "assisted" living apartment. She has a homehealth aid that visits every day more or less and a nurse that checks in on her every Monday to get her meds ready for the week, and an apartment manager that is supposed to take care of her maintenance needs.
My mother has many health chalenges, one kidney, pacemaker (several heart attacks), gout, osteoperousis, clotting blood issues, no rotar cuff in either sholder, the list could go on. She is on several meds that the nurse puts in a machine that allows her to have the correct ones at the correct time. All but he pain meds for her sholders, those she is allowed up to one every four hours. And on this note, she had mentioned a couple of times that this apartment manager asked for "a couple" every now and then until she gets her prescription filled.
God's timeing is PERFECT...
Within the first 30, thirty, minutes of being at her home, I found her "manager" to be stealing several of my mom's pain meds. Not "borrowing" a couple. I found this to be certain when I counted the pills in the botttle of the "NEW" (11-23-10) prescription that she had just brought to my mother and there were 30 pills missing before my mother even got the bottle. This is a woman hired and paid to take care of the elderly at this apatment complex. I talked to my sister the following day and told her my findings and her reply was " we were wondering how/why she was running out of those meds so quickly/often". She told me to talk to her health-aid. I got the same response from her with a "we thougth she had been taking too many". IF this is the case why hadn't anyone looked into it? Why did no one lock them up? Ration them? Call the police?
When I called the police after the holiday, they asked me the same questions.
By the time I left more than 50 pills had gone missing in four days, we had been out of the apartment one day all day, the manager has a key. If my mom had taken that many pills, if she could physically take them without falling asleep, she would be dead.
I am so frustrated... if they thought my mom was causing harm to herself WHY did they not look into it? Why did they just ask, hhhmmm, I wonder how that is happening?
Her pain meds are now in a "lock-box" but she still has a key that she could hand to anyone asking for a "FAVOR". I want this "woman" FIRED. She not only works at the apartment complex that my mother lives in, but several others, for both the elderly and mentally challenged. Who is looking out for those people?
It is a "Tough" place to be when someone I love needs me, and I am so far away. I have called the people that may be able to help. I have let her health-aid, nurse, and my sister, know what is going on. I PRAY that God will take care of it just like He does every other need.
Pray for those who are defensless, that someone is able to be in the right place at the right time to help.
