Janice and all of the rest of you that are or have taken care of your elderly parents, I highly commend you for all of your efforts. It is hard being a parent to you parents. We had my mother living with us for about 8 months before she got too hard to have in our home. She was a dialysis patient and I took her 3 times a week to her appointments, a half day at least at a time. She was from Michigan and missed her friends up there, living down here in Indiana. Maybe that was why she was so hard on our last child at home, a middle school student. Our daughter, a great student, a very polite young lady, couldn't do anything right in Mom's eyes. She made it very hard on our daughter and we, along with my 2 brothers decided to move her back to a private home that was a nursing home for just a few patients just outside her town. She was much happier up there and could have her friends come and visit her. I didn't realize how much pressure I was under until we all made that decision. I'm writing this to let you all know that it doesn't always work out having a parent living in your home and that it is OK to make other arrangements when it doesn't. God bless you all.
Janis