I need ya'lls help!!! I trust you guy's opinions. Most of us here have common sense, and I need to make up my mind quickly.
I've talked on here before about what I do. Just in case, I am a live- in elderly woman caretaker. The woman I am currently caring for is 98, will be 99 in april. I've been working here for over a year. Because of the obvious, these jobs dont last long, and this has been the longest so far. She is attached to me, doesnt like for me to go home even though Im here 5 days a week, and has run off about 5 other people since I've been here. I mean we argue and fight, but shes the type of person who is happy being miserable. She likes to be left alone, and peace and quiet, which is perfect for me. I do whatever I have to do, and leave her alone. Sure when Im in the same room and not arguing about what she needs to do, we talk and laugh.. Anyway, she is getting to the point where she is losing her mind alot more. Just last night I went in to check on her, and i kept finding her at the bottom of the bed, feet hanging off, covers thrown saying she had to go. I tell her, half asleep that she has nowhere to go, nothing to do, and she gets mad. She yells, I yell, put her back in bed and basically surrounded her bed so there was no way she could get out. This morning she was pissed saying she couldnt get out of bed, and I had a mess around her bed. Right now, shes sitting in her room talking and laughing to herself.
Here is my problem, she is nearing that level where she will pass in her sleep, or go in the hospital. now, I told her daughter that I am sorry, but i need to look for another job since it is so close to her passing, and I cant afford to be jobless. Because I cant work legally, it takes me a hell of alot of time to find a job. She offered to pay me two weeks wages after she passes, goes into the hospital, or has to be put in a home. While that is a nice gesture, like my sister said, it will cover a months rent, and maybe my phone bill. I dont want to leave her since she is so comfortable with me and I can get her to do stuff she wont for others, but like I said, I cant aford to be jobless. We just moved into our house, and Ill be damned if have to go back to my mothers house. I will live under a bridge with my dogs before I do that. I cant help but feel like I'm abandoning her, but you gotta look out for numbers one through six first right?
*numbers 1 thru 6 are Venus, Powder, Bebe, Banky, my sister and me, in that order*
Help me!! tell me what I should do?!?!
Hilder420 Reviewed by Hilder420 on . Darn This Concience of Mine! I need ya'lls help!!! I trust you guy's opinions. Most of us here have common sense, and I need to make up my mind quickly. I've talked on here before about what I do. Just in case, I am a live- in elderly woman caretaker. The woman I am currently caring for is 98, will be 99 in april. I've been working here for over a year. Because of the obvious, these jobs dont last long, and this has been the longest so far. She is attached to me, doesnt like for me to go home even though Im here 5 days a Rating: 5