sammiealice's blog post - tought weekend

i have a dear relative who i am responsible and they told me that she needed to move out of her assisted living and into a memory care unit and this was the weekend of the move. i thought it would be easy. omg, was i wrong. i did this before, i moved her from her home into an assisted living. i thought it would be ok. but i forgot how heart wrenching it was---not for her but for me and hubby. they become like little children. and it is just like taking your five year old to kindergarden, you hope you made the right selection, worried will they make friends, will it be horrible for them. what will happen. add you don't know. and it not like just a child---because you remember them as an adult and now, they have revert, become more child like and you really don't know what to do. just hope and try and answer their question. hubby was there to support me but it still such a lonesome time. you know it is the natural progression but that does not really help. and, this is so selfish to say, but, you look at this wonderful person from your youth and realize, to your great fear, that that is you in the future and your daughter sitting next to you might be doing this for you. we can make people live longer but we leave them trapped in pain and fear.

sorry to be so down.

xxxxxxxxxxxxx to all

sammie alice