Mom's Butt

There are a lot of things I never imagined or even had the remotest thought about in my life time.  Mom's butt is one of those things.  As parents, we are all well acquainted with the bottoms of our children and they grow up and those parts become their responsibility and other than to insure health, we are alone in the world with our own butt as we muddle though life.  The circle of life is giving me a run for my money these days.  Mom is my baby now and I am well acquainted with her butt and have a responsibility to make sure her butt and all the surrounding parts are healthy, clean, tended in whatever way necessary.
 
I mentioned before there was a spot on Mom's butt I have been keeping an eye on.  Late Saturday night while changing Mom, I saw a tiny drop of blood on the sheet, and sure enough, Mom had a pin prick of an open sore in the center of the red spot I have been watching. I went and fetched warm water, soap and such to thoroughly clean the spot.  I slathered it with Neosporin and checked Mom for dryness every hour after that on Saturday and Sunday.
 
This to me is so very bad.  I have listened to horror stories about bed stores from Mom herself and I do not want Mom to have one at all. I am now really stressing to Mom how important it is for her to leave the propping pillows in place, to get up in her chair every day, to move more, please.   I am on the edge of freaked out here and I tell her so in the nicest possible way.  Sunday I convinced her to allow me to use the side rails for the bed.  Up until now if I even pick the rail up, she pitches an almighty fit.  This day she understands my concern, or appears to anyway through her cooperative behavior.
 
I put the rail in place and every half hour squeezed another pillow in, slowly propping up her entire right side.  She was not happy each time I walked in the room, but she did not complain too much. I moved the bed sideways to allow easy TV viewing, and she dozed on and off for several hours.  When she woke up fully, she scooched herself off the incline onto her back at the far left side of the bed.  I took a deep breath and moved her back up. She's a willful child, that one.
 
Send love to Mom's butt please.  Have a great day.