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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Thanks for the replies. I honestly hadn't thought if she really needed them. Appointments this month and next:

1. one general physical
2. three dentist appointments -- one cleaning and then two related to a crown (which I think she really did need)
3. one ear doc to clean wax from her ear
4. one podiatrist because apparently she might have some sort of fungus (this per the physical)
5. one trip off to a different doctor's office for her biannual prolia shot (related to osteoporosis, and the GP can't do this because of weird insurance things.)

hopefully once these are out of the way, the calendar clears a bit. [/quote]

NP and these sound reasonable.

Are you taking her to the appointments?

One thing that helped me was although my mom was no longer driving, she was issued a handicap placard - so helpful for me (or my siblings) to use for appointments.

We’d try to combine appointments with errands if at all possible.
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Yeah, I'm the only child in town, so I'm taking her to everything except for the physical -- we had an aid take her to that. She lives in a retirement community so thankfully about 1/3 of the visits are on site, but even so, she needs someone in the room to advocate for her and take note of what the doc is saying. It's just hard to take care of all this and also take care of my own basic health maintenance and that of my kids. [/quote]

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