The promise of more links got broken pretty quickly. As I mentioned yesterday, I was heading for Oak Harbor. That was just past noon. Oak Harbor is about 40 minutes north of us. (Whidbey Island is a long island.) Picked up a prescription for Zoe that we forgot to pick up when we visited her mom, Gerry, the day before. Gerry's Alzheimer's has been making her pretty fearful and leaving her is traumatic. We always forget what else we were supposed to do. Stopped by at Kneed and Feed in Coupeville to pick up a Nuts to You salad. (Kneed and Feed is great for sandwiches and soup.) Dropped that off and then wrestled with the pharmacy over Zoe's meds. I got home at 4:00. At 4:15 we got a call from HomePlace, where Gerry lives, that Gerry was being very disruptive. Zoe called back 15 minutes later and Gerry had calmed down somewhat but the nurse thought it would be good for us to come up. So it was back up to Oak Harbor. We got there to find out that Gerry had gotten worse and they couldn't control her so they sent her to the Emergence Room at Whidbey General in Coupeville. We had seen a little of it on Friday. Something was bothering Gerry and she got up, went over to another resident and started talking to her. Her Alzheimer's has progressed to the point that, although she still recognizes us, her conversations are pretty much not intelligible. The other resident wasn't responding which made Gerry more intent on trying to communicate with her. It's common for Alzheimer's patients to be afraid and also to lash out. Yesterday's incident happened at shift change and it apparently upset the other residents. When we arrived at the ER Gerry was fine. They ran some tests to make sure there wasn't anything physically wrong, which there wasn't, so the called in someone from the State to evalute her mentally. The end of the story is that she has been sent back up to the Senior Behavorial Center at Sedro-Wooley to evaluate her and see if they can adjust her meds. We waited until the ambulance came to take her, which was after 1 in the morning. We finally got home around 2 in the morning. It was a looooong day. at first we were told that HomePlace wouldn't taker her back but the mental health person told us they couldn't do that which took some pressure off. But it looks like we will have to find somewhere else for her to be cared for. She will probably be up at Sedro-Wooley for 1 to 2 weeks. Alzheimer's sucks.