• 13 December 2014: Mom is prescribed the strong antibiotic "Levaquin" by her daughter Mary Beth's husband, Dr. Edward Walker who was in Florida at the time and never examined my mother.  My sister Mary Beth called me from Florida and insisted that Mom had a UTI and needed this medication and ordered me to pick up the prescription she had called in from her husband's office and begin administering the prescription to Mom even though I told her that the urine stick test Mom did (the stick test strips were evidently left at the house by Mary Beth's oldest daughter Dr. Alison Walker who was a resident at a Long Island Hospital) was negative and Mom had a completely normal temperature.  My wife dutifully picked up the medication from Mom's CVS pharmacy and I (against my better judgement) administered the double starter dose of the medication as prescribed that evening before we left Mom for the night as Mom told me that she did not want to go against Mary Beth's wishes because my sister knew best since she was the wife of a doctor and the mother of a daughter who was also a doctor.
• 14 December 2014: I call Mom in the morning to remind her to take her morning meds and she tells me that she hasn't gotten out of bed yet but will shortly and she won't forget her meds. 
  

*** To be continued. ***