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Assisted Living Conversation

Kristin: I just got off the phone with my mom.

Joe: Oh, how’s she doin’?

stressed out: very

worried

Kristin: Oh, she’s a little bit stressed out . We, um, we just had a long conversation

about my grandmother.

Joe: Oh, how’s your grandmother doin’?

so-so: not good and not

bad

Kristin: Eh, so-so . My…

Joe: Yeah?

have their hands full:

very busy

Kristin: …mom and my uncle have their hands, really have their hands full right

now.

Joe: Yeah.

every once in a while:

sometimes

Kristin: Yeah, y’know, they s-, a while back they started to notice things every once

in a while with my grandmother. For example her starting to drive more erratically .

And they got concerned about that. And went to her doctor and explained everything

to her doctor. And the doctor agreed, “Yeah, she shouldn’t be driving.” So the next

time my grandmother went in my uncle and mom both went and her d-, my

grandmother’s doctor confronted her and said, “Y’know, I just think it’s time to give up

the keys and not drive anymore.”

erratically: unpredictably

Joe: Wow, I guess that was…

bound to happen: very

likely to happen

Kristin: And understand-, understandably my grandmother was not happy but she

did it.

Joe: Yeah, I mean, y’know, when you get to that age I guess that’s bound to

happen sooner or later .

sooner or later: at some

time in the future

quite a few: many

Kristin: Yeah, but now, um, here lately there have been quite a few more things

concerning my mom and uncle. So, y’know, ever since my grandfather passed away

a few years ago, uh, my grandmother’s just kind of gone downhill since. They’d

been living in Florida and my mom and uncle decided to move my grandmother up

just to be closer to them. There’s no other family in Florida. She had friends there

but no family. And I think it helped her a bit but, um… she’s just, in general … I think,

passed away: died

kind of : sort of

gone downhill: to have

become much worse

in general: overall

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Assisted Living Conversation

since he passed away, she’s just been going downhill. For example, she has

emphysema…

Joe: Uh-huh.

a good bit: a lot

Kristin: …but, um, just I’d say in the past year she’s been on her oxygen tank a

good bit , a lot, and, and was even hospitalized. So it’s a… it’s been a problem in the

past several years. But it’s got… definitely gotten worse over the past year. Uh,

something else is… she’s on a bunch of different medications, unfortunately. And

she’s just been mixing them up lately, which is not good. I think it just makes her

cloudy and confused then, in general.

a bunch: a lot

mixing them up:

confusing them

cloudy: not clear

dosage: amount

Joe: Yeah, I mean that can be really dangerous. I mean she could take a, uh, the

wrong dosage of a medication. And it… it could be lethal .

lethal: deadly

assisted living: a place

for older people to live

when they need extra

help

Kristin: Yeah. Yeah, exactly. So…yeah, they’re just… they’re thinking more and

more like I said, assisted living . Y’know, I’d say about a month or so ago they had,

uh, sat my grandmother down and given her an ultimatum . Y’know, when… when

they were noticing a few things here and there, like with her driving, they decided,

“Okay it’s time to do something.” So they sat her down and, and said, “We’re givin’

you three choices. You can go into assisted living. Or you can have someone start

coming in regularly to sit with you, make sure you’re taking your medications, the

correct ones at the correct times. Or you can go and live with, um, Susan”… my

mom. And…my grandmother decided she didn’t want to live with my parents. She

didn’t want to put them out . And she definitely didn’t want to go to assisted living.

So she chose to have a sitter. She didn’t like that either, but she realized she had no

choice. Well, she had to choose one of the three choices. So she’s been having a

woman coming in like three days a week. And since that - this woman has been

coming in then - my mom and uncle have realized, “Oh, she needs someone actually,

kinda seven days a week, not just three.” And they talked to the agency. Uh, this

particular woman couldn’t come in seven days a week. So the agency actually found

someone else. I think… I think she’s only… this new person’s only coming in two

days. So that leaves still two days out of the week that my grandmother doesn’t have

anyone coming in. But my mom and uncle are even thinking it’s to the point that she

kinda needs someone twenty-four seven . Well, not when she’s sleeping, I shouldn’t

say, but, when… definitely when she’s awake.

ultimatum: a last request

to do something before

action is taken

regularly: usually or

often

put them out: to

inconvenience

twenty-four seven: 24

hours a day seven days a

week

feel for: feel sorry for

Joe: Yeah, I mean that… this sounds like a really difficult situation. I really feel for

your mom.

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