Hey Gang! I hope everyone had a good holiday and your new year is off to a good start. My life has been insane. Not only is work really busy, my mother was in rehab for a broken bone. While at the rehab place, she got an infection that the nurses missed and then when they found it, they told the doctor it was pretty urgent, but he did not order antibiotics until AFTER she went septic and nearly died. Even after the first infection started to resolve, she was still on the brink of death due to a different infection that escalated as the other resolved. She is finally out of the hospital, in a new rehab place, but has some new infection and weird stuff happening with her electrolyte levels.

Meanwhile, my sisters, both of whom are on the power of attorney (I am not on it), are trying to force me into taking care of everything with my mother. They are simply not showing up to check on her, but keep texting me asking for updates. So. It has been difficult trying to maintain boundaries when I know that if I do not act, she will die. Then I fantasize about smothering her with a pillow, so I'm not sure why I am trying to prevent her dying from infection or lack of sodium in her blood.