The place is familiar to her. And the director is one of the great good souls in the assisted living business. There is also the time factor. The thought of another move simply plunged me into despair. One morning as we were facing this crisis I just lost it.
Mom can never make the cut.
There's one woman at Sunrise who spends the entire day walking back and forth in the halls. Linda laughed and laughed, somewhat hysterically, but her laughter and my outburst helped break the cycle of despair. And we worked things out at Sunrise. I suggested to Gail Zink that it might be fair to pay a higher rate for Mom's care. But she would not hear of it.