March 15, 2020

2:15 PM – I got woken up early….. again! She was in the kitchen getting some soup ready and started up with the “This is my house. I bought it when the kids were little….” She was just off camera so it didn’t trigger a recording. I guess I’ll start going through the day’s videos.

The first one of the day is at 4:02 AM. Some stands at the door to come into the room for a moment and starts going on about how we’re about to lose the house. After she sits down, she says that I’m not her son and we’re about to lose the house because I didn’t do what I was supposed to. In reality, she’s paid ahead about 8 months or so and I’ve made a payment every month without fail since I started taking care of her bank account in the summer of 2018.
She thinks we’ve gotten notice that we’re going to lose this house and it’s going to take everything in her savings to save us. She thinks I’ve been gambling it away. In reality, NOTHING is overdue, no notices of cancellation on anything and I still don’t even play scratch-offs, let alone do any other kind of gambling.
She continued on like this until she got up and went back to bed at 4:48 AM.
At the 1:20 mark, she tells someone “bye bye. If you don’t know the answers to that, you don’t need to be here.” At 3:15 she waves bye bye.

Again with the “if you’re going to keep asking those questions, you don’t need to be here,” stuff, but in the middle of it, she mentions that Victoria is not going to get her Echo because that would be grand theft.

We got a door slam! Somehow I managed to sleep through that. I guess I must have been really tired. At the 1:30 mark, she shouts for someone to “Get out of here! If you don’t know the answers to those questions you don’t need to be here!”
The fun continues. While there isn’t any more door slamming, it’s basically the same stuff going on between the last video and this one. The question is apparently about if the Echo is for sale. This time it’s Veronica instead of Victoria. In this video, the subjects change so fast you may end up with whiplash, so be sure to secure your head! The house, the Echo, her sister… once sentence to the next seems to be a different topic.
The subject shifts to this house not being for sale and Jerry Feester is trying to sell it now. This starts after the 1:30 mark.

4:25 PM – OK, I’m caught up on the clips so far. She has been quiet, at least upstairs, since the last video, except where she woke me up talking in the kitchen. There was a bunch of finger pointing for a while and she when downstairs 3 times, but she hasn’t said anything in any of the clips. As a side note: I found a plug at Amazon that is supposed to connect to wifi where I should be able to control from anywhere from my phone. I’m going to order that and plug her TV into it so I can turn it off when she leaves it on. Here’s a link if you’re curious: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08331YTDD/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=ASTOKKCI5ZBKL&psc=1

She’s going on about her Echo, it is now Veronica and she wrecked it and broke every law that a policeman stands for and she needs to pay for it because it’s worth more than what she paid for it.
She continues on and she’s getting mad and loud enough for me to hear downstairs. I have a bunch more after this, but it’s the same topic.

6:35 PM – At this point, I’m throwing in the towel. I called Goshen Hospital to make sure the proper procedure for getting her evaluated and into a nursing home would be by taking her to the ER. They confirmed that it was, so I told Mom that we have an appointment at the Hospital at about 7:00 PM, so she heated up some leftovers and is eating that and we are heading up there. I’ve got the power of attorney paperwork with me and will use that if I need to. With being woken up way too early this week, the slamming door and now her going on about Veronica stealing her car and wrecking it, I just can’t deal with it anymore. Wish me luck!

9:00 PM – The Dr. at the hospital suggested trying a medicine called Risperdal ( https://www.drugs.com/risperdal.html ). He said he had the same experience with his Dad, who was a Marine and was pretty much a real asshat from the sound of it. He said that one day he was pushing him in a wheel chair and his Dad said, “Look at the pretty flowers.” It was a complete 180 degrees. Based on what I told him was going on tonight, he thought she would be a perfect candidate for that. He had also called Oaklawn, which does the evaluations at the hospital, and they agreed with the Dr. So, she got one at the hospital and sent a prescription to CVS for me to pick up tomorrow. They also gave me a number to call tomorrow for “Dr’s Neuro Psych Hospital” to follow up with. They have a website at https://www.neuropsychiatrichospitals.net/ if you’re interested in finding out what it’s about. So, we’ll find out more tomorrow where to go from here. I have officially reached the end of my rope, so either drastic changes are going to have to be made through medicine, or she’s going to be moved into a long-term care facility. The process has now been started, we just have to wait to see where that process goes.

“I’m not going to have dead people telling me what I can and can’t do. If you can’t keep your mouth shut, then you’ve gotta go.” She doesn’t say anything else after that, but waves bye and does a hand across her throat and looks irritated after that.