About My MOM Corner - First Chapter - Page 1

couldn't take it. It was the "straw that broke the camel's back."

"They" moved my mother from the assisted living home where she and my dad had resided for only a few months. She no longer understood what was happening, they said. She is a danger to herself and others.

Mom had been struggling for years with dementia, likely Alzheimer's, though, to my knowledge, it was never confirmed. She was also legally blind - a result of oxygen deprivation during a serious surgery years before. The only skills she had left were walking and talking. Problem is, she couldn't see to walk unaided and she made no sense when she talked.

Turns out she'd become upset with all those "other women" living in her home, talking and laughing and playing cards with her husband, having all the fun she could no longer grasp. She got out of bed at night and went into their rooms and started a fight. You know the kind... pulling hair, screaming, scratching... typical "girl stuff" and totally unacceptable in an assisted living facility.