Q What were some of the difficulties besides that in trying to take care for her?
A Sure. So my mother, uh, my mother and father divorced when I was a teenager. And even though my dad remarried, my mother never did. She lived independently, uh, sort of prided herself on her independence. Uh, But her ability to maintain the home, she lived in a fairly large home, a large amount of property, but her ability to maintain that slowly deteriorated. Her ability just to keep a clean, safe environment around her deteriorated. So I made the first tough decision I made for her after her diagnosis was moving in a professional caregiver. And she hated that. She hated this invasion of her privacy. And it wasn't very long after that that I realized that she was no longer capable of driving safely. Every time I saw the car, there was more body damage on it. And of course, when I spoke to her, it was never her fault. So taking away her car keys not only took away another source of independence for her, she had to ask permission to go anywhere. Really, really upsetting for her. Um, she had, uh, uh, mangled her finances and, uh, work with all of her creditors to figure out how we were going to dig her out from the hole that she had dug. Uh, she had developed hoarding tendencies, so we had a massive, uh, clean out of her home and, and, and, and property, uh, which she fought tooth and nail, uh, every day. Um, so it, and, and what made this especially tough, um, was my mom, uh, Wa…
AI assessment note: “moving in a professional caregiver. And she hated that.”