Dec. 25, 2013—
Christmas Day may seem like a bad time to introduce your Mother to hospice care. Do you hear what I hear?
But my brother and nephew have Dec. 25 obligations in Nashville, Tn. so we usually don’t celebrate Christmas until Dec. 26 when they come to Chicago. Medicare for Mom’s tool box of pills runs out at the end of the year and the results from her echocardiogram come in on Dec. 26.
Mom’s dementia has gotten worse over the last few months. Her 92nd birthday was Dec. 10 and that was a fleeting moment. Forgetting birthdays isn’t such a bad thing. Baseball poet Satchel Paige asked, “How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you [...]
