MIL is still not eating much ...works for me though ... she'd gained a fair
bit of weight, and can afford to lose some of it....  as long as she's
getting decent nutrition when she does eat, I'm not worrying about it...

we have quite enough to worry about since she came home .... she did regain
some ability to walk, contrary to what they said she would - but it's really
just enough to be dangerous most of the time....

hard to keep her restrained in a chair or whatever when she can,
technically, walk ... but she's sure not very good at it... and has no sense
of her limits at all ...  when she's the least bit tired, either can't do
it, or down she goes...  and walking for about 2 minutes is about all it
takes to tire her out sometimes. She does have a walker, but of course,
won't remember to use it....  we use it mostly to plop her into the seat
quickly when she's about to fall. Can't manage things like sitting, or lying
down in the bed, by herself... and has an incredibly annoying tendancy to
stiffen up and fight when we try to help her... my wrist is totally
buggered, and no likely to improve as long as I'm dealing with her.

plus, her behaviour has seriously deteriorated .... and continues to
deteriorate... she's hitting now, plus has no hesitation about trying to
make people (me) do what she wants ... yesterday's new behaviour was to grab
me by the hair and try to pull me to where she wanted me .... which was
standing (NOT sitting, sitting is not allowed) beside her chair for no
particular reason....  she also grabbed the dog's ears and tried to pull
him - she's entirely lost any sense of connection to the poor dog...
announced when she came home from the hospital that she doesn't care for
dogs, and he could just get lost... keeps telling him that this is his 'last
night' here... and have caught her slapping him ... not an issue now,
usually as he no longer even TRIES to go near her, poor thing...

No more hesitation about the need for a bed - we're on the list and will
take the first available - preferences be damned ... our preference is for a
full nights sleep! We want her to be close enough that we can
visit/supervise - and of course, we want her well taken care of - but the
main thing now for all of us who are involved with her care is that she be
PLACED sooner rather than later

The only way we're managing at all really, is that we're switching off at
much shorter intervals, and no one has her, usually, for more than about 3/4
hours at a time (except hubby does the night shift, and often has her all
morning until 2 p.m., but fortunately she tends to be dozing thru most of
that time most days) .....   I take a couple of hours early in the morning
so that he gets some sleep, then I work for a few hours, then have every
afternoon off....   hubby comes to do the store, home care comes to do the
ma thing, and I go away for a few hours of me time.   Evenings are varied...
either I do it, or we have someone work at the store so we're both here, or
SIL gets stuck with her... she's not too happy that we usually use her here
with ma now, rather than at the store (where she gets paid to work) but
we're dealing with that by paying her for here instead.... not all the time,
but some of it... so that she still gets what she would have made.   I start
back to work as of today ... not the full time days I would prefer, but got
plenty of evening classes...   better than nothing.