Made it back home last night. We stopped by and visited my mom in Cincinnati on the way back from Altoona. It could be worse, now they are saying it was an occipital lobe stroke. She has some aphasia and her vision seems to be kind of like tunnel vision. Hard to tell if she can see all of the time or some of the time. The Dr said with intensive therapy this week some of it may come back, but after this week anything that doesn't come back won't come back. Mom still thinks she is going home after this, but that probably won't happen. No one has told her that yet. Personally, I think hiring someone to live with her is an option, but my sister (a nurse) is the one in charge of making the medical decisions and since we live 2+ hrs away, I feel like we shouldn't have a big say in the decision since we can't help on a daily basis.
That stuff sucks. We're local to my mom, along with my sister. Sheryl and Jodi do most of the mom management - but that doesn't stop two of the other three from thinking they know better. We have had several periods where we've had to work to fix the damage they've done with their best of intentions.