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My mother 79, diagnosed with late onset Alzheimer’s and possibly vascular dementia. She’s still mostly here but there are definite changes visible especially last 6 months.

She’s seeing all the doctors and has plenty of apptmts and they send her all over for tests but I feel like mostly it’s a just a way to keep everyone busy.

What do I really need to start getting done? Financially, emotionally?

My father is still around but he’s also 84.

My mother 79, diagnosed with late onset Alzheimer’s and possibly vascular dementia. She’s still mostly here but there are definite changes visible especially last 6 months.

She’s seeing all the doctors and has plenty of apptmts and they send her all over for tests but I feel like mostly it’s a just a way to keep everyone busy.

What do I really need to start getting done? Financially, emotionally?

My father is still around but he’s also 84.

He’s the only one of a litter of 4 and mother that stuck around. I don’t know what happened to the rest. This is a suburban neighborhood that used to have more cats when 2 neighbors up the street used to feed outside. One who tnrd died right before I moved here and another who mostly just kept feeding them but didn’t TnR. When I came I tnrd as many as I could and would feed some that made their way up to my house. Not sure what happened to most of them 😕.

My point is that it’s a fairly safe neighborhood for cats and that there is no large community cat group and just random single cats left feral.

This guy stays mostly at a neighbor a block across (backyards across the street) who puts food out for him but he comes by most nights to check out the options I leave in my garage. And in winter I have heated houses in garage so he usually spends most of the night here. But he never comes for affection or to just hang out. Sometimes in the winter he’s still there when I put food out and he will let me pet him but usually stays away.

I’m worried about him because he’s old now and starting to look very skinny. I don’t know if I should let nature take its course or try to get him to vet. I hate the idea of him suffering in the winter. I don’t think bringing him in is an option. I have other cats and he’s never liked staying near them. He would be miserable and my cats would be angry.

I’ve had the LR4 for 4 years now and mostly liked it. I recently gave it deep clean and it’s now telling me either the waste basket is full / overloaded or globe overloaded. When trying to cycle it get most of way to dumping but stop before hole. Then it will try 2 or 3 more times and go back to base position. The app says it completed a cycle when it absolutely didn’t. The lights go 3 red steady and 2 yellow blinking until I hit reset and then back to solid blue.

Went through a lot of aggravation finally getting rid of the waste basket overload but now, anything more than a handful of litter in globe says it’s overloaded. The cycle will complete if empty but anything more than a bit of litter holds it up. No matter what I try it won’t complete the cycle even though it says it has.

Customer service says I need a new motor assembly but I feel like it’s obviously a sensor problem. The globe will fully rotate when empty or to empty so I think motor seems fine.

My question : is it worth trouble of getting motor assembly and changing it ? Anybody have this issue? I’m wondering if 4 yrs is pretty much as good as it gets and I should just replace it instead of getting aggravated swapping out all parts.