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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How much would something like laundry cost? What if you raised the question with the siblings, saying that laundry cost $x per month at the facility, but that you're willing to do it for $y (less than x!), then ask which they would prefer. It may be that it's worth it to them to pay someone else so that you don't play the martyr.[/quote]

Medication management plus laundry is an extra $700 a month. I just feel badly my mother spending $8400 a year on that. I have been doing it for over a year so I have saved her $12,600. The sibling who is supportive is extremely angry at the one who hasn't visited in 4 years and has just said we should pay but when I proposed it to our mother, she became so angry. She was a nurse so the thought of somebody (besides me) giving her medication gets her extremely agitated. [/quote]

I wonder if the out of town sister was subjected to your mother's extreme anger and has decided to preserve her sanity. If your mother was a nurse, she probably gave many many people medication, so why can she only receive hers from one person?[/quote]

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