Apparently, I was WAAAAYYYYY wrong!
I came back from my time away Thursday and I thought all was well. Mom said Granny was having an anxiety filled night. I got in pretty late, but Granny got up out of bed to see me and then she didn't get up again. I thought it had calmed her down and all was well. The next day was fine, but then it went downhill from there.
Friday we had the big issue with the flu shot. She was to have one at 2:45, but she thought she had already had one. We called Mom, Aunt Pat, asked the doctor, and she even checked her arms for injection sites, but she still wouldn't believe. I finally got the people at the doctor's office to tell her that there is no harm in having 2 flu shots! She said that she would be watching for adverse reactions and that was the end of that, thankfully!
Saturday came...
Mom, Granny, and I all went to church to get our food that we ordered. That went fine. Then Mom and Tyler left to go to storage to pack Tyler's stuff while Granny and I stayed at the house. It was fine for a very long time. We talked, she read the paper, I was cleaning, etc.
Then it happened...! I had to go take a key to Tyler at storage and I was gone exactly 30 minutes. I walked back in the house and I got it. She started griping at me because she was tired of being left alone all day long and she just wasn't going to stand for it anymore. I tried to talk to her and tell her that I had only been gone for 30 minutes and remind her of all we had done, but she did her usual walking off as I'm talking and said that she was "just a liar." It was nuts. The next thing I know, she is in the kitchen with her head down on the kitchen counter crying and saying she wished she were dead. ARGH!!!! She finally talked to Aunt Pat and calmed down a bit.
She only ate half a piece of pizza and had a million cups of coffee all day.
I'm not sure what I did or didn't do, or what I could have done differently, but I am obviously the worst caregiver EVER!!
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