Peace?

I was looking for some real peace and quiet today but that just didn't happen. Even though she was not physically here, Dad kept on bugging me that he wanted to call her and if we were all going to visit her tonight. She called once and she sounded calm, stable and even normal. I let her talk to him just to satisfy his "hunger" a bit but he soon forgot that she even called and thought I was lying to him.

This is not good. I am going to have to call Kaiser and get some meds to calm him down because I have a mean feeling that he is not going to take this calmly.

We disconnected all the phones except for the upstairs ones. But when someone calls, it will pop up on our TV screen. So we saw the hospital number pop up. I ran upstairs, but she already hung up and didn't leave a message.

Well, the phone rang once more and this time I picked it up. In the sweetest voice she could muster, she told me that she was getting discharged tomorrow and if I could pick her up. I was so caught by surprise, because I thought she just wanted to talk to Dad. I immediately said, "No." I then told her to hang on, got DH, and we both were literally dumbfounded, as we didn't know what to tell her. How could one human being hold such power over someone? Only if we let them. Aargghh!

We immediately began to look at our options. We would have to rehearse what we would say to her. Shortly after that, my SIL, K, called me and she said that Ma left 2 messages on her phone. While I was talking to her on her cell, we both heard her call once more. This time she said the hospital was "making arrangements to get a cab and this time she is bringing the police." Oh my gosh.

I immediately called the nurses' station to let them know that under NO circumstances were they to discharge her. She would be placed into a nursing home straight from the hospital. We have to really think this out.