since he passed away, she’s just been going downhill. For example, she has
emphysema…
Joe: Uh-huh.
Kristin: …but, um, just I’d say in the past year she’s been on her oxygen tank a
good bit, a lot, and, and was even hospitalized.
So it’s a… it’s been a problem in the
past several years. But it’s got… definitely gotten worse over the past year.
Uh,something else is… she’s on a bunch of different medications, unfortunately.
And she’s just been mixing them up lately, which is not good.
I think it just makes her cloudy and confused then, in general.
Joe: Yeah, I mean that can be really dangerous. I mean she could take a, uh, the
wrong dosage of a medication.
And it… it could be lethal.
Kristin: Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
So…yeah, they’re just… they’re thinking more and more like I said, assisted living. Y’know, I’d say about a month or so ago they had, uh, sat my grandmother down and given her an ultimatum. Y’know, when… when they were noticing a few things here and there, like with her driving, they decided, “Okay it’s time to do something.” So they sat her down and, and said, “We’re givin’ you three choices. You can go into assisted living.