Wow. Apparently Mom is not making friends and being a social butterfly as I had hoped. She is becoming very adept at pissing people off.

There are no seating arrangements at Corinthians for meals but just like any other social setting;
think school here, people who are friends like to sit together for their meals. Well, after all of our coaxing for Mom to go to the dining room so she might not only eat better but to try and make friends, today she went to the dining room for lunch. She neither ate or made friends. She did however manage to piss some people off. Apparently, she sat in someone elses "regular seat" and when that someone else wanted her to move she got very aggrivated saying there are no seating arrangements and she could sit wherever the hell she wants.

We think she may be re-living her years spent in the private Catholic schools she grew up in and apparently hated.

Oh Mom. Please don't anger these people. You need to try to make some friends. We cannot be there for you 24-7 and these people are. Can't you try to get along.

OK, wishfull thinking.

There is a part of me that thinks she is trying to sabbotage us. She hates this place and a part of me thinks that if she can get herself kicked out she can come back to Arlington and live with me.

I am going to have to get into a very disciplinary mode with Mom when I see her Sunday. I hate when that happens but it will be OK because when she does get mad at me, I become the "Other Cindy". I seem the only one who can make her mad and then be forgiven.


I will try to make her understand, in the most elementary of terms, that she needs to respect the other residents and try to understand that if she had a table that she sat at with her friends and someone intruded on her seat, how she would feel. I know, well, I think I know, she would tell me she wouldn't let that happen.

Mom doesn't tell me these things that have happened when I talk with her on the phone. I get my best info from Teresa who has really taken over the primary role of Mom's caretaker. She visits daily and spends ENDLESS hours with Mom. I can't hardly stand 3 hours with Mom and Teresa has gone to visit her everyday spending hours with her.

I don't know how Teresa does this. I just know that she does and it is nothing short of a miracle for me as I could not do this without her. Teresa, you have been a Godsend and I appreciate you more that you know.