March 17, 2020

She loudly asks someone, “Is that enough light to see where you’re going?” I have no idea who she was talking to, but I clearly heard what she was saying down here. She then says something about her sister not living here. I went ahead and posted it as the 17th, because she is still going on as I write this at 12:04 AM.
She’s talking about her Echo at the start and then says that the “Hot Red Camaro may very well be a police officer’s car.” Well, now the silver Echo is Faye Carol’s. Both Victoria and Veronica are now off the hook and her sister is the one trying to destroy her Echo. She’s just really chatty and loud going on about the Echo again.
I took a screen capture from an outside camera showing that her Echo is still sitting safely where it has been since the summer of 2018.
The name of the Echo thief suddenly changes from Faye to Veronica again. She seems to be having a conversation with the comment, “Yes, it could easily be broken.” Then she’s talking to me: “That’s your squad car, the Hot Red Camaro.” Nope, my job is a spotter truck driver, not an officer. Side note: The current videos are all 5 minutes long. I’m manually recording so it doesn’t miss anything.
A bunch of pointing. She’s showing someone something. With this going on, I’m feeling less and less bad about taking her to the psych hospital. It’s obvious she needs help that I can’t give her. She doesn’t say anything until after the 2:20 mark. It’s again about the Camaro being a police officers car and it’s in the form of a conversation. She then goes on about the Echo some more.
More of the same. At the end, she tells someone to “Slap her in jail for a while.”
The same until the 2:19 mark where she says, “I want my mommy back.” in a weird voice. I’m assuming she’s copying the voice she’s hearing. Some of the comments are pretty strange in this one.
At 1:47, she mentions that, “Now I’m dealing with that old man calling me ‘Sandra’.” She then asks, “You put him in a nursing home this time, right? One that actually is locked down.” It then goes back to Veronica/Victoria/Faye, whoever it is.

At 1:20, she tells Veronica/Victoria/Faye that, “We all watched you destroy your own Echo.” (We did?) “I am not her mommy!” (Really loud.) At the 3:00 mark, she tells someone to “Come look for yourself. It looks like Juniors clothes to me.” (Pointing at the closet. She’s forgotten that they are mine, but knows they belong to a male and she hasn’t seen who put them in there. I’m not sure why Dad would put his shirts in the closet here.. lol)
She goes on about where her bedroom is and where a male’s clothes are. She seen some male put his clothes in there, but she doesn’t mention that the male is me for some reason. More pointing.
It’s 1:00 AM and I’m behind 4 videos (20 minutes) as of right now and I still hear her going on upstairs. It’s almost constant from what it sounds like. I might skip posting a couple videos unless the topic changes just to keep the volume of video posts down a bit. At 1:04, she finally came down to go to the bathroom (I can hear her talking in there as well.) Maybe she’ll go back to bed afterwards.
The topic has changed to someone telling her that she’s not supposed to be here anymore. “That’s bullshit.” At 1:48, she says, “It’s after midnight and I’m normally in bed and I’m up because of somebody here.” At 3:00 minutes, she asks really loudly, “Why? Tell me why? I didn’t steal anything that’s in here.”

1:30 AM – She continued on for a bit. As I said, she came down to use the bathroom and I heard her talking in there. When she came out, she stood in the kitchen and talked some more (about how this is her house etc.) She then went upstairs and when she got up to the landing, started talking some more. If I had been trying to sleep, it definitely would have woken me up. Finally, at 1:15, she went back into her bedroom, closed the door and turned off the light. I just checked on the camera and by turning the volume up really really loud, I was able to hear that she’s still talking. At that time it was about how she bought the house a long time ago and that she didn’t mind someone staying here.. I will stay up for a little while longer and keep tabs on her to see if she goes back to sleep.

She got up this morning to go to the bathroom. It seems like she was giving someone a tour again. She stood on the landing outside the door talking a bit. I’m really surprised she didn’t wake me up right there.
On her way back to bed, giving someone a tour again, or still.
Talking about her car, of course. It’s ramping up already this morning where she’s loud enough for me to hear her downstairs again.
A thumbs up and a “Good.” A few moments later, “Faye Carol does not live around here. It’s closer to Columbia City.” She remembers where her sister lives it seems.
I didn’t hear her downstairs on this one, but it starts off talking about her Jesus figurine and then goes on to talk about the entertainment center.
She starts off talking about some crochet stuff sitting next to her (some granny squares that have not been assembled.) Long pause, then she’s talking about Veronica and her Echo and then it goes on to me not letting her drive and her driver’s license no longer being valid (I don’t know if it is or not.)
No idea who she’s talking about, then she mentions getting something from a lawyer to “take me with you.” Nods, thumbs up. It’s a conversation. She doesn’t have the Camaro, she has the Golden Echo. I think she’s talking about the pythons again. Someone had something that shot fire out and burned it and it took off. Definitely something to watch out for. Back to her sister not living here.

10:30 AM – After this video, I went upstairs to get her going with her shower and get her packed. I was up front about where she was going and why. I told her that they were going to help determine if she has Alzheimer’s or not. She said she thinks not, but I told her they would figure it out and how best to help her. Ashley ,in referrals for this hospital, told me that with Dementia patients, it could be 2 weeks or maybe even longer, so I let Mom now that she might be up there for a few weeks, but everything would be provided except for the clothes, sorta like a hotel stay. She’s not showing any signs of fear or nervousness at this point…. it’s just me going through that… lol. Anyway, I was told that our arrival time should be between 1:00 and 1:30 PM, so we’ll head out at about 12:45. She hasn’t had her breakfast yet, so I’ll go ahead and get her going with that since I don’t know when her next meal up there will be, most likely supper. Wish us luck and hope that Mom does okay up there. 🙂

Shannon signing off until updates are received from the hospital.

OK, I lied. Here’s another video. This one she mentions that her Jacket is not for sale. (Who in the heck is trying to sell her stuff?) Anyway, I was in the bathroom at the time this was going on and towards the end, Mom says: “I can’t talk anymore because Shannon’s going to come out and think I’m hallucinating, which is what I’m going to the doctor for.” So she understands what’s going on and remembers bits of it. She continued on, but apparently wasn’t moving enough to trigger the motion detection on the camera, so it hasn’t recorded her continuing her conversations. I wanted to post this so that the Doctors could see that it’s going on at any time of the day, even right up to it being almost time to leave for the Neuro Psych Hospital.

3:23 PM – Well, Mom went in without any problems. The nurse that came out to take Mom back into her room was really nice (everyone there was) and Mom took to her right away. She even grabbed the nurses arm to be escorted back. No bye or anything, just followed her back. I was checking her in and chatting with the receptionist for over an hour, lots of paperwork to sign. I told them that I likely wouldn’t call until I heard from them so that it wouldn’t disturb her getting used to the place. I guess there will be a conference call between several of the doctors there and myself to discuss initial findings and plans going forward in a few days, so I’ll post info here when that happens. Eventually, the nurse that took Mom back came out and let me know that Mom had told her that she hears voices, none of them dangerous sounding, but at least she admitted it so they have an idea of where to start. I wasn’t asked for the link to the blog, but will bring it up during the conference call when that happens. I think they really should see it, unless it goes on there for them. We shall see, but until then, I’m signing off for now and going to make some spaghetti!

3 thoughts on “March 17, 2020”

    1. Yeah. It should be a few days until they do a conference call with me and some of the doctors/psychiatrists there. One thing I forgot to mention in the post is that they won’t let her just sleep or hang out in her room. They will have her out in a commons room with the other patients doing activities like arts & crafts or games etc. I think she’ll enjoy that since I think most of her problems probably stem from boredom. She may not want to come out of there.. lol

      1. Yes, she will enjoy all this attention and things to keep her mind focused(or not???)

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