Meeting With Interim health care Today I met with Lisa from Interim. I think most of us now the drill. She came in to evaluate Moms condition and attend to the leg wound. She told Maggie,Morris and Me that she will have a social worker call me and set up a time to discuss the needs of either assisted living or a nursing home. If anyone has any questions or ideas, please e-mail them to me.(tom.lanahan@bms.com) I will let everyone know when the appointment with the social worker will be scheduled..She didn't have a lot of information for me on this matter. She felt like it was to late for assisted living. Think about Morris's condition and compare that to Mom. A big diference in my opinion. The social worker would be able to give us better information on which way and how to proceed. I will get a call sometime this week and set up an appointment with the social worker.

She is also having a physical therapist call to evaluate Mom and to see if we make things easier on all the caregivers. This is also where we can get the information on an air mattress for the bed sores.She gave Maggie some diferent bandages and saline for all of Moms wounds. This way we don't have to change every day. Lisa will be back this Friday to replace the bandages. I'm sure everyone has a lot more questions or thoughts or ideas. Please let everyone know what they are.

As far as Moms condition- I agree with Eileen and Dan. It is a lot more dificult to attend to her needs. More help is needed. Dan and I can't be there on Sunday nights getting up every half hour to hour and a half and then go to work Monday am. This will not work for us. He and I will discuss who we will call for a Sunday night stay.

Tom