Good Sunday Morning Mike and Company! The talk of having to put an elderly love one in a care facility brought up memories of when we had to do that for my MIL. She lived in Phoenix AZ in her own house in an adult community. She was having trouble with her memory, forgetting things but nothing that was out of hand until she went missing. She had taken the car out for a drive one day and just didn't come home that night. They found her the next morning in the middle of the desert, where she had spent the night. She couldn't remember how she got there, what she said was she was driving to the mountains because they looked so pretty. When they took her to the hospital to check her out, they found she had gotten so upset during the night she suffered a small heart attack. She was didn't have any damage from it, but we used that reason to move her to a home with care. She never went back to her house. DW and her brother and sister closed down her house and it was sold, and we ended up moving her to a place near us in Maryland to live out her days.
After seeing what DW, BIL and SIL had to go through makes me pray that I recognize when it time for me to make that move and not put up a fight.