Taking Mom To Her Appointment Was A Trip From HELL!!

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I'm so serious! Anything that could go wrong, DID!! First off, mom has no sense of direction. NONE! ZAPPO! NADA! NONE!*sigh*Ok, how do I explain this? lol Mom had an appointment with her doctor on Tuesday who specializes in dizziness, his office is 4 hours drive away. Dad usually takes her but this time, their neighbor next door to their right, Kathy, was having surgery on that day and needed someone to watch her little dog so my parents told her that they would do it not realizing mom's appointment was the same day so dad opted to stay home to watch Kathy's little dog as well as their two if I could take mom instead which I said I would and did. Well, as it turned out, Kathy had her surgery a few days sooner than expected but still, I told mom I'd take her. Besides, she said she wanted some mother and daughter time with just her and I so I agreed to still take her. Mom had made plans to stay with her cousin overnight and her cousin's name is Kathy too. She and dad had been to her house only once but mom having a GPS, we'd find it without any problems. Yeah right. She wanted to meet me somewhere instead of my picking her up from her house which is what should've been done to begin with but nooooooo, she thought it was too far for me to go when we'd have to go back the same way I came. BIG DEAL! but she was adamant about meeting me so we picked a place. WELL WELL.... she took the wrong turn and ended up way way up the road ahead of where we were to meet. Lovely. I called dad to tell him what had happened and that I couldn't get her on the phone again although I tried so many times so he decided to go looking for her just in case she may have gone into the ditch since it was still early in the morning and ice was on the roads. He tells me to go on to this town on this same highway and see if I can see her anywhere so I did. Well, being that I didn't know the road at all except the beginning parts of it, I did as I was told and looked for her. All of the sudden, I'm on this bridge that goes on and on and on and I'm wondering "What the hell?" and then saw a sign telling me I'm on a different road! I call hubby and tell him where I'm at to figure out where I should go to find this road for I've obviously missed a turn off somewhere when I was looking for mom's car. I made a U turn and headed back the other direction and found where my road had turned off. In the meantime, dad finds mom and tells me oh yeah, the road has many turn offs. Oh great! Here I am, I don't know anything about this highway and he tells me this NOW? So I head back and found the turn I was suppose to make and eventually found both mom and dad. Then we had to find a place for mom to park her car so she could ride with me so we ride about another 15 minutes till a truck stop was found and left her car there. We went on to her appointment and following the GPS and I misunderstood what it said to do because I'm not used to using a GPS and ended up going around in circles. Finally I got the understanding of it and knew then where it wanted for me to go and went. Then mom calls the imaging center to get directions and they tell her that they've moved and the building is new and they doubt the GPS will pick up on that just yet. Oh great!! Just great!! So she gave us directions and we did our best to follow them and ended up having to call them back and keep them on the phone to tell us where to go. We finally found the place and mom got her MRI done then it was off to the doctors. We get there and well, I'll tell you about that in another discussion. We went to lunch at Cracker Barrel and then headed towards Kathy's, mom's cousins house. By then it was getting dark so the roads were starting to ice up. Following the GPS, we get to this house which we thought was Kathy's, mind you, mom's memory just isn't there. We get all our luggage and things out, mom has to carry everything and the kitchen sink, and we take as much as we can in one trip to the back door, I had put everything I had down in a chair to help mom up the steps and this young girl comes out and says something to the affect, "I hate to ask you this but who are you?" I turned around to mom and said "MOM?" and she about laughed herself silly and told the girl we were here to see Kathy but apparently we had the wrong house and the girl said that Kathy was next door but we were close! Talking about being embarrassed!! Indeed I was!! Here we were, all this luggage and mom not able to walk very well and it's icy cold outside, we looked like a bunch of idiots!! lol I get mom back in the car and everything loaded back up and head for next door. I made damned sure it was the right house before taking a thing out of the car!! It was, thank God!! By then I was so exhausted that I went upstairs and found a blanket and fell asleep on the couch. Eventually, mom and Kathy came searching for me and couldn't find me because I was buried under the blanket that I blended in with the pillows. lol By then, it was about 2 hours later so I got up to visit some more and then we went to bed. The next morning which was yesterday, we got up and had a nice breakfast and started for home because Kathy and her husband had a concert to go to later that day. On the way home, we got lost again because the GPS was telling us to go one way when we knew we wanted to go another way. Besides, mom's car was on the road we needed to take so I had to make another U turn and get on the road we knew we wanted to take and had to reset the GPS to go this route instead. We found mom's car and I followed her. Well, we got lost even though we followed the road to where it said to go. Come to find out, there's two of the same road!! One is an old one and then the new one! You'd think they'd change the name to one of them so people like mom and I would know which one to go on!! But nooooooo, they named them both the same!! No damned wonder we got lost!! We did find the other highway that we needed to get on and well, we got home. Needless to say, it was a trip from HELL!! I vowed to look the highway up on the computer so I can get a better understanding of how it goes so if in the event I need to take her again, I'll know where the hell I'm going!! lol Have you ever had a trip from hell? I sure hope not! It's no fun! Especially in this cold weather with all this snow and ice that we have right now.