Chicken Little, you make a good point and we have wondered about depression. Her doctor has always been part of the problem. None of us like him but she and my stepdad think he's wonderful. He's a pill pusher and Mom dearly likes her pills if you know what I mean. He prescribed Prozac 10 days ago thinking it would help her mood but all it's done is turn her into a pie-eyed zombie. I'm dealing what that issue today.

Shootingstar, my mother has never had any close friends or other "sisters" that she talked to. Don't know why but she doesn't and that's too bad. She used to have hobbies that she enjoyed (reading, sewing) but quit that after her first fall about five years ago. It's been a downward spiral since then.