Gary has gone downhill fast and has been loosely diagnosed with dementia. The ONLY way he's semi-normal is on medication and it took 10 days in 2 hospitals to get him stabilized the first week of May. They don't have care for him in Bullhead City, AZ. At the beginning of May, after a call from the cops when he wandered to a neighbor asking them about shadow people, the amateur doctors sent us home with an antipsychotic medication that caused him to go crazier and I woke up with him standing on the mattress over my head about to step on my head/neck because he thought someone else was in bed with us. Without the meds, he is hallucinatory and completely disoriente--and with the wrong meds/wrong dosage, even more dangerous. Not knowing how to lay down in bed at night is just one piece of it. I live in a surreal world right now. First time I caught him hallucinating completely floored me. He is changing rapidly and I need the better care for him in Vegas STAT.
SO--our youngest daughter, Sami has come back to live with us for her senior year in high school to spend time with her Daddy and to help try to keep Gary here "with us" as long as possible. AND...we move back to Vegas. Our house is under lease with good tenants until Sept 2013...so we are temporarily moving into an apartment. PLUS, I need to not have to care for anything other than my family and ensure I'm keeping my job. My company is providing office space for me at their Las Vegas branch to accommodate my need to have proper care for Gary. I feel so fortunate!! Been with the company for 3 years next month and I love my job. I am so thankful for such a HUGE favor from them.
We are just flexing our living situation with the healthcare needs, which, unfortunately, it seems, are going to decline rapidly from here.
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