For the most part, there has been no substantial change. Still trying to determine what documents the nursing home needs, and get those. I realize I'm doing it a bit of the hard way, and being a typical control freak in that I'm not just signing a blank "release of information" which they can write in any provider, lab, pharmacy, and ask for anything without me even knowing, but maybe I am a control freak. Do you sign blank checks?  

I want to know who is being asked for information and exactly what information, and when. As I recall my training as an EMT, LPN, and RN, that is the way a release of information is done, and any release has to be disclosed to the patient or representative. So far, getting the information from the admissions director has been.... slow.   Not to mention, unless and until I get the letter(s) from the PCP stating that one or both parents are not competent, I really can't legally act as POA. Well, I may be able to and be successful, up until either parent challenges that, and without the supporting documentation in hand, I could be liable for whatever is on the statute books. 

In the meantime, it seems one or the other parent has some minor health change or issue that kind of puts everything on hold for a bit. Mom with a combination UTI/Upper Respiratory infection treated with oral antibiotics, and by the time she began to recover, dad became suddenly more lethargic and sleeping a lot more, symptoms which are consistent with late-stage kidney failure (I was a hospice nurse, so I've seen that). 

Thus, I've not made an update, because even though things have happened, there's not been that much change, though the calendar continues to roll on.  And that's the insidious part of all this. Time keeps on moving, and like the wind and rain on rock, given enough time, even rock erodes and is worn away, and I'm no rock.

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