My Mother Is Home Now!

On Monday I will be traveling to Oklahoma to see my mother. For those of you who don't know or don't remember my last post about mom, she is at a point she has to have someone with her twenty four hours a day, she's had some seizures and now she is afraid of being alone.

About two weeks ago, mom was at my house, she has been staying with each of us for a little while. But as soon as she gets to my house or to my younger sisters house, she is wanting to go home. She really wants to be where her home is.

So I was thinking about a story my friend Raymond told me not too long ago. It was about his friend's mother. He said she had cancer, but she was eighty years old and she didn't want to have an operation. Well, to make a long story short, her son told her .... his words...."By God you are going to have the operation!!" Raymond looked at his friend and said, "No it is not by God, you mean By you!!" He then proceeded to tell him, "Your mom still has her right mind, she has the right to make her own choices, so let her decide what she wants to do." Needless to say, the guy's mom contracted pneumonia and died, she did not have the operation. So Raymond told his friend, "I guess your mother got her way after all, she didn't have the operation and now she is with the Lord."

So in saying that, I decided it was time to ask mom what she really wanted. Her reply was to be in her own home, so I put an ad in the paper in the town she lives in, I was interviewing people over the phone for the past month, calling their references, sending them to go to the Family Dollar in the town where my mother lives to get an application from my sister who is also lives in the same town my mother lives in. My sister wouldn't call anyone, she would just take the application, and call me with the information. Who knows why, insecurity I guess.

Anyway, I found a lady whose references checked out wonderfully. I got my sister to meet with her, we did a background check and now she is staying with my mother. I don't think I have ever seen mom so happy. She is in her own home, the lady stays with her Mon-Fri, twenty four hours a day. She takes mom to town, they go to McDonalds and to get a coke, they sit out in the yard, and now mom is laughing and sounding better than I have heard her sound in a long time. So again, God has answered my prayers and my mother's prayers. I am happy for her, I hope she enjoys life to the fullest and I thank God for providing this lady who seems to be enjoying her newfound friend!