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Spent the day at the hospital with my mother due to injury from yet another fall due to low blood sugar.
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BarbBrooklyn
Commented Feb 2019
Is anyone bothered by the ‘life alert’ type commercials on television where an elderly person has fallen?
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GardenArtist
Commented Sep 2020
Now I need your prayers, Mom is in hospital with kidney failure
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pamzimmrrt
Commented Jan 2020
Mom's surgery is coming very soon...
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Ceeceeisme
Commented Mar 2018
Family complains about how I clean the linen used to clean up Mom...
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TNtechie
Commented Nov 2018
Reached burnout, and easy to see in hindsight, but how to know when approaching it?
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Sunset3339
Commented Jul 2018
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Oh no, I really messed up!
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JoAnn29
Commented May 2018
I miss my life...it used to be good.
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Confounded
Commented Oct 2018
I want to run away.
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lizzywho61
Commented Apr 2018
In over my head...
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Catattoo
Commented Jun 2018
Mom Called the Police on Us - We want her out. Any advice?
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Isthisrealyreal
Commented Jul 2018
My wife and I took a road trip to CA from Maine, to visit my mother and when we arrived we realized she should not live so far away from us.
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Chapter2
Commented Jul 2021
I believe hospice and my stepmother are responsible for his death.
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jmt1964
Commented Jan 21, 2024
Fall Alert necklaces - know before you buy
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Midkid58
Commented Nov 2020
I love my mother deeply — and I wake up many mornings hoping she will pass away soon. Anyone else experience this?
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Wendylou
Commented Mar 2019
No question, but Mamacita (as I have called her for years) has slipped away.
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Geaton777
Commented Oct 2020
Venting without a question re LO breaking her ankle today.
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againx100
Commented Jun 2021
FYI... Because of the abuse of the 911 system for "lift assists," some fire and ambulance districts will soon charge up to $850 for excessive nonemergency calls.
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Mountaingyrl
Commented Mar 2022
The Dreaded 911 call...
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anonymous272157
Commented Jan 2019
Exhausted, frustrated and need to vent....
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Enshope
Commented Nov 2018
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