u/BruinBabe4ever

My mom (73F) was diagnosed by a neurologist and her primary care doctor with Alzheimer’s related dementia. She doesn’t believe she has dementia, so she switched doctors to someone new. My dad should have never allowed that, but here we are. It would put my mom in a rage if she knew we were talking to her doctor about dementia.

My dad (73M) now sees that she needs treatment and medicine and is willing to go through the steps to help her. He called my mom’s new doctor asked for an appointment to discuss next steps for my mom, but doctor says my mom is only person that can make appointments.

In an ideal world, we want to tell my mom’s doctor about the dementia, then we bring my mom in for an appointment and the doctor makes her own assessment of my mom. Doctor provides a treatment plan to my dad, and we can get both of them more help. Again if we were to tell my mom that something is wrong with her and it is dementia related, there is an over the top angry response. She’ll get verbally abusive and even start throwing things at us. However, we think if the doctor brought it up, she might handle it better. Maybe.

Any advice?

I had a reservation for a car booked months ago. I had put my flight info in the Avis reservation. Last night our flight into Santa Barbara airport was delayed until 1045p, supposed to get in at 9p.

I get to the Avis desk and it is closed up. The people are gone for the day. My lodging was still an hour away. No late night pickup options, no emails, no anything from Avis. Just us standing there without a car to get to our hotel.

Has this happened to anyone else? Why on earth would Avis do this? Is there any recourse?

There are signs that Nate is an asshole right after he gets promoted to assistant coach. Clearly Beard and Ted recognize it with exchanged raised eyebrows looks. How come neither of them called him out on that stuff? I feel like neither of them would foster a toxic environment no matter who was doing the bullying.