@colfac92- condolences on your loss.
All the best to you as you support your mother, @mykidsgranny. So much to sort out; she is fortunate to have you. Wishing you some rest. Self-care is important through the rough patches and it is all too easy to forget.
@colfac92 - I am so sorry for your loss.
@mykidsgranny - Make sure you take care of yourself - hugs to you and your mother.
I’m sorry, @colfac92 and @mykidsgranny. Hope things get better and happier memories provide comfort.
Today H and I and my folks are getting the first of 2 Shingrix shots. We will all get the 2nd shot when it is due. CVS in our area just got it and it is supposed to be much more effective than the prior shingles vaccine we all got. We went to a great opera with them last night.
I got that Shigrex shot and had a reaction in that I felt achy and feverish for a day. Not uncommon for to have reactions, do plan your timing such that you are not inconvenienced if you feel lousy.
So sad the the folks have increasing difficulty understanding plays, operas and even TV. I’m sure the world is more boring and confusing. 
It is very sad when they start not comprehending things they loved in the past!
I talked to my step-daughter this morning; I feel dumb. I am going to pay OT and PT out of pocket so they can start even before the wound care is over. Mom slouches so badly I’m afraid she will never be without some kind of abrasion on her back or backside, and she needs the therapy. Gentle therapy at first, but they are good at that; it will be more interaction with people.
I am also going to get up at the butt-crack of dawn tomorrow morning and try to catch the doctor when he makes rounds. Communicative, he is not. I am kind of assuming he will discharge her on Monday, but that is an assumption and I’d like to have a clearer idea.
I’m sorry, @colfac92 . That’s a rough one.
My condolences @colfac92.
MIL is in hospice care. Neurosurgeon, neurologist(s), nurses, all say it was amazing she even made it to the hospital alive. DS1 and DS2 have both been to see her, and she had enough lucid interludes to be aware of that and then, afterwards, be reminded of it. Some old friends came yesterday. And DH and I are visiting her daily. She’s not in pain.
@HouseChatte , I hope there is peace for all and sending you and your family support , hugs.
@HouseChatte best to you and your family.
Thinking of you, @HouseChatte.
@HouseChatte - Thinking of you and your family.
Sending you and your family comforting thoughts @HouseChatte.
@HouseChatte, thinking of you and your family.
Thank you so much. MIL died at around 2 this morning. Peacefully and comfortably. Her greatest terror, after living with her own parents’ years of deteriorating health, was of incapacity and indignity. DH was able to implement her wishes, and the hospital staff treated her with such tenderness and compassion. It was as “good” a death as we could have hoped for her.
My condolences @HouseChatte ; I am glad it was peaceful.
@HouseChatte, my sympathies
So sorry, may your memories be comforting.
@HouseChatte - my sympathies to all of you.