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Originally Posted by Janet
She really doesn't need to be driving. It does scare me, but someone else will have to tell her. Her driver's license doesn't expire until 7/11. If only it was sooner I could go up there and tell them it would be best to not renew it.
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Oh, you can go up and tell them she is not safe to drive and they will call her in and retest her (at least that is what would happen in Texas). And in Texas it is anonymous (don't know about IN). Sometimes it just has to be done.
I agree she is probably safe to drive in her little town, but don't think she's safe to pull the camper. I think she and I would have had a knock down drag out, cuz I don't think I'd have let her pull the camper home after wiping out 5 mailboxes. She's not thinking clearly by insisting she is fine to drive when she just did that.
It is really hard, I talk to people all the time that have to do something when their loved ones are not safe to drive any longer. But some people just let the elder keep driving and I always think about that elder driving on the same roads as my daughter, or other family. It makes me cringe. I just couldn't do that, as hard as it would be to take away their driving freedom.
I was really lucky, my mom knew immediately that she couldn't see properly to drive after her mini-stroke and she never got behind the wheel again. I know it is not usually that easy. But you have to think of other people and their safety. Your mom has lived a good life and if something happened to her it would be sad, but again, she has lived a good long life. What if someone's mom hit Ricky? It's just something to think about.
Again, I know it is really hard, and I think she is probably OK to drive around her little town.