2:00 PM – My next door neighbor just brought Mom home. I guess she had gone over to their house and asked them to call the police because Jerry Fessler left and hasn’t come home yet. — Jerry Fessler used to tend bar at the Eagles here in town. I know Mom hasn’t been there since she was married to Warren.. somewhere around 10 years ago. Mom has asked me to try to find him, but the searches have failed and he may not be alive anymore.– Anyway, Mom said that Jerry leaned over and gave her a kiss on the cheek and said he’d be right back and that she hasn’t seen him since. As I was out in the kitchen talking to Mom and the neighbor, I noticed that Mom had ALL off her teas laid out on the stove. Who knows what she was doing with that and what set off the concern about Jerry. It’s also odd that instead of waking me up, she walked over to the neighbor’s.
Fortunately, the neighbor recognized that she was having a problem due to experiences of her own with a relative that recently went into a nursing home for Alzheimer’s.
Mom went upstairs and I checked things out in the kitchen. She had her toothbrush and a little jar of toothpicks in a ziplock bag, a couple of dish rags, pot holders, recipe box and 3 coffee cups sitting on what little space she has left on the table. I put everything away and sat down to write this. She’s still upstairs and I’m not hearing anything, so I’m going to TRY to go back to sleep for an hour or two since I’ve got to work tonight…