My Thanksgiving.

[Diamond_Dog]

19. I totally understand deb

The only reason I didn’t answer that time was because I knew my sister was there with her. She told me mom sat there and hit Redial 22 times and got mad when I wouldn’t pick up. She had no idea whether I was home or not anyway! This was before the days of answering machines. My sis pleaded with her to stop calling here but she would not stop.

We eventually hired caregivers to stay with her around the clock because she had fallen a couple times while home alone. Of course that was another story, why did we hire strangers to take care of her when it should be family doing it. I probably should have tried to take her in here with me but we had zero space in a small 50s era house with my 3 kids and she couldn’t do stairs. My sis lived in a small,apartment so she couldn’t do it either. I know, it’s a constant worry in the back of your mind about answering the phone. I could go on and on but you have probably heard the same thing too often!