Freddie Hubbard - Povo
My mother was diagnosed with brain cancer a few years ago and has since had multiple surgeries, pneumonia, and other issues. She started drinking too much wine as an escape from reality when I was away from her. She knew she couldn't take her seizure medicine, so she didn't. She is pretty weak but can walk on her own when she feels comfortable. However the atrophy/weight loss that occurred in the hospital after the surgery from being in a bed for a year means that she gets drunk/tipsy very easily. This, along with multiple seizures, led to a week where I had to call the ambulance for her 3 times in the same week because I found her unconscious on the floor, or watched her fall and knock herself unconscious.
The third night she fell, I was asleep when she had fallen multiple times, and she was finally taken to the hospital, and then to a rehabilitation center for a month or two. In the same week that she fell, I also had to move houses, basically on my own with the movers that we hired. Now she is back in the new house, and she doesn't have any alcohol, but she is back to square one from when she first came back from the hospital. She has much more difficulty walking, she shakes involuntarily, she speaks much slower. Borderline Parkinson's disease. She also is very unappreciative of the things that I try to do for her because she wants to be back to her normal self, independent of anyone else.
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