I've got to get to the Lake to see my family

The family headed down to the Lake of the Ozarks, with Dee Dee, to hang out with Michele's sister and her two boys. It went great. Dee Dee had lots of people on hand to help her, and I think it's good for her any time we get her out of the house.

On Friday, we brought Dee Dee back from the Lake. She took a nap in the car and then when she got home. This turned out to be important, as in her mind, she was just with us at the Lake.

At 1:00, we got our new home health person, Yolanda. We had the standard meet and greet that we've become accustomed to. After Dee Dee was settled and looked good to go, the rest of us headed out the door for some family time at the mall.

While we were gone, apparently, Dee Dee tried to leave the house repeatedly. Since there are several doors on the main level that she has rarely seen used, this meant that she was trying the door to the garage, the front door, and the door to the basement (the most dangerous door of all for her). Yolanda of course prevented her from leaving, at one point even standing in front of Dee Dee.

Dee Dee asked for Yolanda's phone at another point, saying that she needed to call us.

So it didn't go well. We got the after-action report from Yolanda, then later we heard Dee Dee's side of the story. You see, that woman was keeping Dee Dee from going to the Lake to see her family. We had left without her. Yolanda was mean. She wouldn't even let Dee Dee use her phone to call 911. She wouldn't let Dee Dee leave the house to find us.

"But Dee Dee, we weren't at the Lake. We told you we were just running some errands."

"But I told her I needed to go to the Lake to see my family, and she wouldn't let me!"

"Dee Dee, we told you, we weren't at the Lake."

"But she didn't know that."

Dee Dee was obviously very confused, and it was the most agitated I'd ever seen her. She definitely believed that we drove to the Lake while Yolanda was there. But even after she recognized that we were just out running errands, she was still upset that Yolanda wouldn't believe anything Dee Dee said. I've never known Dee Dee to dislike anyone, but she definitely disliked Yolanda.

We had high hopes before that visit that Dee Dee would adjust well to her new home health helper, but Friday was not a good start.