She was admitted to a rehabilitation nursing home on March 16 th she was so sick and out of her head finally on March 29 th they listened to me and checked her out. She was just mumbling and hallucinating. She was dehydrated and her kidneys were not working right and she had a UTI. I was so afraid that I would never get her back but she came out of it and we moved her back on March 31st. She finally really started physical therapy on April 2nd. She is getting better, but she still has a hickline and is getting antibiotics twice a day and her foot is healing but it still has a ways to go. She is just not ready to go home, plus she has no place to bathe there is water coming up the bathtubs drain and you can’t put water down her kitchen sink so you have to dump the water into a bucket and take it outside. I live in Wisconsin and my brother is not going to see her because of my daddy’s will. Long story you can catch up on my profile and I cannot be down there 24:7 I have to take care of myself. Every one is worried about me I finally saw my therapist and psychiatrist and she wanted to put me in the hospital. I have said before that I struggle with anorexia and I have chronic pain due to a disease of my pancreas pancreatic divisium and I have been so isolated down so there’s no one except when I can be there. So Monday the nursing home called and her last day was supposed to be yesterday so I appealed but they said they didn’t get everything but she is good until she gets another discharge date and I can appeal again. Well that discharge date came yesterday so now her last day is supposed to be Sunday. It’s crazy I call this number and I tell them why she is not ready to go home and then they send it to another company they said I will know today. I just don’t know what I am going to do if she is discharged, I cannot afford to hire someone to come in and my brother won’t help but she has a farm that’s worth close to 3 million dollars. But my brother says one day we should divide it three ways and sell it and she can move to town and we have our money it’s not our money I don’t know what he is thinking she has her own will if she needs more care she should get it. Sorry I don’t think I even had a question so I just vented but has anyone else had to deal with this?
And this is why you can not have the stress of dealing with your mother AND now you have an ailing FIL about to move in with you?
You are going to kill yourself with this stress.
Why is your brother getting 270 acres plus and you only get 10 acres? (Let's assume the dilapidated house isn't worth much.)
I would as someone stated above, speak to the social worker as it sounds like she will need skilled nursing in a NH if she can’t go home now. They can’t keep a rehab bed open as it may be needed by other patients, so most likely they will transfer to NH.
With her assets it may be private pay as with her $3 million dollar farm she may not be eligible for Medicaid and Medicare won’t pay for long term nursing home.
So again you should be having conversations with the discharge planner/social worker at her current rehab. Hopefully they have another part of the center designated NH; if not the SW will find her one. It’s best to get her paperwork ready as someone has to pay & I don’t think she will qualify for Medicaid. The farm may have to be sold to pay for her care & that’s a reality.
Your brother will have to step up & communicate with the rehab center if you can’t.
As far as your mother’s home it doesn’t sound like anyone is upkeeping it with repairs, etc & if it’s too much for her and you now say she can’t be discharged to home, then maybe it’s best to sell the farm.
So...prioritize & get her admitted the a NH for skilled care. Or use her $3 million dollar farm to fund care for her at home.
YOU can't care for mom. If you're not there, the rehab will figure out pretty quickly that they need to get the state involved in her care.