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[quote=Anonymous]Naborforce or similar independent person. My mom has cognitive decline and health anxiety. She moved to anssiated living near me last year.  Every month it’s a new emergency and she would call and call complaining to me something is terribly wrong. So at first I put my life on hold.trying to get in to see the dermatologist (cancer!); gastro (cancer) cardio (heart failure!) and gp (brain tumor) and orthopedics (terrible neck pain). This culminated in multiple trips to urgent care and finally hospital. She had everything checked out. Doctor pulled me aside and said it was cognitive decline exacerbating anxiety and that was exacerbating vague feelings of Illness, dizziness, nerve pain etc.

I stopped caring for myself kids or jobs while all this was happening and it was not good. I now have hired a caregiver (even though she is in expensive assisted living) to listen to her, take her out etc. I still take her ton necessary appointments but don’t drop everything because of her anxiety over her health. I also got her into concierge practice which helps me by coordinating things.

I can’t speak to the knee issue except to say that if she can do PT , brace, cortisone shots it would be better than surgery at her age if she has cognitive issues. My MIL who has no cognitive issues had horrible reaction from anathesia and didn’t recognize us for 6 weeks. Recovered but it was awful (her surgery was necessary). [/quote]

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