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To the best of my knowledge
Born in Sheldon, Missouri on June 9, 1933.
Married Boyd Jones in 1948.
Brenda was born in 1949.
Hooked up with Bennie Calhoun in 1951.
Tom was born in 1952.
Faye was born in 1953.
Still hooked up with Bennie, Bennietta was born in 1960.
Bennie hauled ass and went back to his wife whom he was married to the whole time he had these three kids.
1962 moved to Nevada, Missouri, worked for Nellie Don Clothes Factory.
1965 moved to Esterly in Kansas City and worked in a clothes factory for a short time then worked in a bar called King Arthurs.
1966 moved to Prarie Village Kansas and married Fred Aichele in 1967.
1971 moved to 1st house on Fairwood in Hickman Mills Missouri.
1977 moved to 2nd house on Fairwood in Hickman Mills Missouri.
1988 moved to Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.
2000 had open heart surgery and her health deteriorated rapidly after
this surgery.
2003 was admitted to Hilton Head Hospital seeking rehab to help with walking. Was release to the Cypress to continue rehad where she was left alone and fell and I believe she had a stroke there.
2004 went home and sat in a chair in the dining room for about a year before suffering another stroke which left her totally incapicatated. She could only get from the chair in the dining room to the bathroom with help. She was left alone during the day while we worked which totally haunted me!!!
2005, Thanksgiving Day would not go to the hospital until after her turkey dinner which she didn't eat any of. I cooked everything, hauled it over to her house and asked her, can we take you to the hospital now?? And she finally agreed. She would not let us call an ambulance, we loaded her in the back of Stan's van and took her to the hospital. She was rescusitated three times in in ICU and remained in there for about two weeks.
They called me at work and told me to come in, they were releasing her and I was so upset, we didn't have anywhere to put her, so they turned us over to hospice so she could come home for her final days.
We learned all about a hoyer lift and caring for someone who was totally bedridden. We went through a bunch of nightmare nurses through this time. You wouldn't even believe some of the crazy things they did. One of them stole her drugs and money and left her alone while she shopped.
Hospice quit after about 6 months and we were assigned a home health care worker who showed up about once a week and did pretty much nothing??
2006, Mom decided she was going to Coastal Carolina for some Rehab. She sat in the wheelchair for about 6 hours waiting on the bus to show up, which it never did, I'll never forget how determined she was that day, it was so sad, so once again, we loaded her in the back of my van this time and hauled her to the hospital in Hardeeville where she stayed about 3 months and accomplished nothing. From there she went to Life Care Center which was a total nightmare. What a bunch of wackos there, a couple of them were good, but she was miserable.
I went by everyday to check on her and take her a midday snack and take her outside. Sometimes I went in and she didn't see me because the nurses were in there, but I was just making sure she wasn't left there alone and someone was taking care of her.
In September she was released from there and came home again, we found an awesome nurse that took care of her from that time until the day she died. I'll be forever grateful to Norma for taking such good care of my mom. I know it wasn't an easy task.
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